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Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise boosts market share, wins new customers


Johannesburg, 24 Aug 2010

Sybase, a SAP company and leading enterprise and mobile software business, has announced strong growth in adoption of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), its high-performance relational database management system for mission-critical, data-intensive environments.

Sybase achieved double-digit licence growth in the enterprise database management market in 2009 and the first half of 2010, outpacing the industry, including major vendors who have seen little growth and even decline.

“Strong momentum is being driven by a very committed customer base, with a 97% customer satisfaction rate and with the continued addition of new customers,” says Rudi Leibbrandt, practice manager at Sybase South Africa.

Customers leveraging Sybase ASE to meet their extreme transaction processing needs include Swiss Medical, the Argentinean healthcare group deploying ASE Cluster Edition to turbocharge processing capacity; technology travel company Revelex, using ASE Encrypted Column Option to meet secure database payment compliance requirements; and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, combining Sybase ASE and Sybase IQ to meet dual database requirements.

"The number of organisations adopting Sybase ASE 15 has grown significantly as enterprises face continually growing demand for increased efficiency and availability while dealing with the exploding requirements of transaction processing systems to support large volumes of concurrent users with high transaction rates,” says Brian Vink, VP of data management products at Sybase. “Our continued leadership and momentum in the database management market is a direct result of ASE's ability to address these extreme requirements by delivering ultra-fast, nonstop performance on cost-effective, standards-based platforms.”

Sybase continues to build a foundation for long-term growth of Sybase ASE investing in technology innovations such as in-memory databases, and by certifying Sybase ASE 15 with key enterprise applications. The recent release of Sybase ASE 15.5 introduces new innovations with ASE In-memory Databases option where early adopters are benefiting from large performance gains with little implementation effort. For example, a large financial services firm saw a nine times performance improvement without having to change application code or rewrite queries. Furthermore, Sybase continues to work with application vendors such as SunGard to certify Sybase ASE 15 with key applications in financial services.

ASE is recognised as a leader in enterprise database management systems in Forrester Research's June 2009 database wave report (The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009, Forrester Research, June 30, 2009), and has garnered awards including Enterprise Open Source Magazine's “Best Linux Database”; SD Times 100 for leadership in Database and Data Tools; and Best Enterprise Data Management Vendor by Waters Magazine.

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