Sybase

Sybase Inc.
Company type	Public NYSE: SY
Industry	Computer software
Founded	Berkeley, California (1984)
Headquarters	Dublin, California
Key people	John S. Chen; chairman, CEO, President
Products	List of Sybase products
Revenue	$813.67 million
Number of employees	3,568 (2004)
Website	www.sybase.com

Sybase Inc. (NYSE: SY) is a software company specializing in relational database management systems and database-related products. "Sybase" is also commonly used to refer to Adaptive Server Enterprise, the company's flagship relational database system. Sybase's original architects were Dr. Robert Epstein and Tom Haggin who both had worked at Briton-Lee and the University of California, Berkeley Department of Computer Sciences. The pioneering "University Ingres" relational database system, developed at UC Berkeley, led to Briton-Lee, Sybase, Ingres (Computer Associates) Informix (IBM) and NonStop SQL (Tandem), as well as the majority of other SQL systems currently in use.

Sybase became the number 2 database system behind Oracle, after making a deal with Microsoft to share the source code for Microsoft to remarket on the OS/2 platform as "SQL Server". At the time, Sybase called the database server "Sybase SQL Server". Until version 4.9, Sybase and Microsoft SQL server were virtually identical. Due to disagreements between the two companies over revenue sharing (or lack thereof), Sybase and Microsoft decided to split the code-lines and went their own way, although the shared heritage is very evident in the Transact-SQL (TSQL) procedural language as well as the basic process architecture. The big difference is that Sybase has a Unix heritage, while Microsoft sprung from that original Unix architecture and was adapted and optimized only for the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. Sybase continues to offer versions for Windows, several flavors of Unix, and for Linux.

Sybase suffered a major downturn in fortune in the latter half of the 1990s when Informix started outselling it by a wide margin. In November of 2005, a book written by a long time Informix employee was released that chronicled the battle between Sybase and Informix. Today Informix is no longer an independent company (having been bought by IBM). As judged by revenue, IBM has taken the lead in the overall database market with Oracle a close second. The #3 position is occupied by Sybase's own offspring, Microsoft SQL Server. Today Sybase is well behind its major competitors in the enterprise database market, with 3% market share (InformationWeek March 05). Sybase has recently returned to profitability under the management of John Chen, and continues to reinvent itself with a new 'Unwired Enterprise' strategy. The 'Unwired Enterprise' vision is about allowing companies to deliver data to mobile devices in the field as well as traditional desktops, and combines technology from Sybase's existing data management products with its new mobility products. Sybase has expanded into the mobile and wireless space through buyouts of smaller networking and wireless companies, such as AvantGo, and expansion into the Asian market, specifically China. Through its mobility subsidiary, launched in 2000, iAnywhere Solutions, Sybase has become the leader of the mobile database market with SQL Anywhere.

Sybase makes a number of other data management products including Sybase IQ, a data warehouse system, Powerbuilder a client-server and n-tier application development system, m-Business Server, a mobile applications system based on the AvantGo service, and Replication Server, a vendor-neutral data movement system. Sybase has a strong presence in the Healthcare and Financial verticals.

Products

Sybase products include:

Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Sybase unveils ASE 15, the mission-critical data management system for taming the data explosion.
Advantage Database Server Advantage Database Server is a high-performance client/server data management system that enables you to create powerful business applications faster and easier.
Afaria Afaria allows companies to centrally manage and secure technology used at the front lines of business. Its frontline security management capabilities provide enterprise-ready security solutions to protect mobile data and devices.
Appeon for PowerBuilderTransforms data-rich client/server applications into browser-based n-tier applications for the Web.
AnswersAnywhere Answers Anywhere harnesses the power of computer applications by enabling end-users – whether they are on a wireless phone, using a handheld PDA, interacting with a customized console, or at a desktop computer – to ask for information and transactions in their own words, in any language, and get accurate, relevant answers back – fast.
Avaki EII Streamlines integration of data from many distributed sources while providing standardized access to integrated views of data through a single data layer.
AvantgoMobile Internet service that delivers rich, personalized content and applications to mobile device users
Consumer Banking SolutionProvide your customers with one-stop access to all of their finances from a single branded location... your Web site.
Content IntegratorSybase Content Integrator is an intuitive toolset built for software vendors that immediately adds content extraction, aggregation, and transformation functionality to existing applications so users have access to clean, targeted data.
Corporate Banking SolutionFinancial Fusion Corporate Banking Solution encompasses a full range of services that enable banks to offer their corporate clients the most robust, technically advanced, and efficient cash management solutions available.
Data Integration Suite,Data Integration Suite is a powerful suite of flexible components that allows enterprises to create data flows from a range of heterogeneous data sources
Data Grid Solutions, grid enables users to collaborate securely by sharing processing, applications, and data across heterogeneous systems and administrative domains for collaboration, faster application execution and easier access to data.
DataWindow.NetBoosts the performance of .NET application development environments.
Dynamic Archive, Is an online database archiving solution that enables customers to proactively manage runaway data growth by offloading inactive data from the production system – while keeping both production and archived data fully accessible online.
EAServer An enterprise application server based on open standards for powering business-critical applications.
e-Biz Impact Sybase e-Biz Impact is a proven hospital integration solution that supports HL7, filters incoming messages, safe-stores them for guaranteed delivery, processes transformation and enrichment, and enables dynamic routing to any number of destination systems.
EDI Products Electronic data interchange (EDI) integrates many technologies which allows business partners to electronically exchange business documents. EDI has become mandatory in competitive environment: reducing operating costs, administrative errors, and delivery delays.
EDI Server, Allows companies to exchange business documents electronically with trading partners using specified EDI standard formats or non-EDI standard formats
EnterpriseConnect Data Access Provides enterprise-wide transparent access to heterogeneous databases, allowing applications to interact with databases to access, consolidate, and/or update data.
Financial Fusion Server The only multi-platform, multi-channel e-Finance platform available on the market today.
InfoMaker An easy-to-use report generator for client/server applications.
HIPAA Accelerator Sybase HIPAA Accelerator gives healthcare organizations the technology needed to quickly develop and implement HIPAA administrative transactions.
Industry Warehouse StudioSybase Industry Warehouse Studio (IWS) is an out-of-the-box and into the business packaged data warehouse infrastructure. It provides the advantages of a custom business intelligence system without the risks.
Information Suite Anywhere The Information Anywhere Suite is a secure, scalable mobile software platform that addresses the converging IT requirements of enterprises today y-to-use report generator for client/server applications.
Integration Servers Sybase suite of high-powered, e-Business integration software was designed to address the needs and challenges of industries such as financial services, healthcare, insurance, retail, utilities, manufacturing, telecommunications and others.
Mach Desktop Mach Desktop is a lightweight user experience server that allows a software vendor to quickly develop, layout, and deploy user experiences to an extremely wide audience of users.
Mainframe Connect, Supplies the connectivity tools to provide high-performance access to a variety of mainframe OS/390 data sources.
Manage Anywhere StudioManage Anywhere Studio provides central control for distribution, installation, and management of software and files on mobile, distributed, and remote systems.
M-Business Anywhere,Provides a platform for delivering Web-based content and applications to mobile devices rapidly and cost-effectively - with minimal recoding.
Message BrokerFinancial Fusion Message Broker is an XMLbased solution that delivers a 100% Java technology infrastructure that allows you to develop, deploy and manage custom messaging within your existing trading infrastructure.
MFolio Optimizing mobile content and the Wireless Data User Experience Sybase mFolio, a standalone, embeddable mobile application software and mobile data solution, delivers highly focused, device-optimized mobile media browser and syndicated content to end users.
Middleware Integration OptionSybase provides a wide range of adapters and integration tools for improving integrated development environments as well as the performance and flexibility of integrated systems.
Mirror Activator,Sybase Mirror Activator improves the economics of high-end storage replication systems by reducing network costs, accelerating recovery time, and guaranteeing data integrity. It also extends the usefulness of standby systems by utilizing them for reporting and decision support.
Mobile Device SDKs Sybase is a global leader in providing wireless connectivity, device management and data synchronization software. Our software development kits (SDKs) for Bluetooth, IrDA, OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) Device Management and OMA Data Synchronization protocols help OEMs/ODMs integrate wireless connectivity and synchronization into mobile devices quickly and easily.
Novalys Visual ExpertVisual Expert is dedicated to PowerBuilder development teams. Visual Expert helps in acquiring and transferring the knowledge of the application. It automates the impact analysis performed before each modification and checks code quality.
OneBridge,OneBridge Mobile Platform provides an integrated, solution-oriented approach for extending enterprise applications to mobile workers. It is a flexible and powerful platform that enables most any type of mobile device, enterprise system and connectivity option, including online, offline, real-time, push or synchronization.
OmniQ, OmniQ technology enables applications to automatically find the most important information within the masses of unstructured information stored in organizations' centralized repositories, libraries, file systems and existing document management systems. New versions of OmniQ are being released under the name Sybase Search.
Open ServerProvides multiple clients and servers access to centralized application logic, alleviating the need to constantly update individual clients.
OpenSwitch,Increases data quality by transparently monitoring and managing transactions and communications to a safe completion.
Patriot Sybase PATRIOT compliance solution is a comprehensive, end-to-end, real-time solution to help DFIs comply with the USA PATRIOT Act. The solution rapidly satisfies the requirements of the Act by implementing an automated process for continuous monitoring that is operationally unobtrusive, secure and cost effective.
Pharma Anywhere Pharma Anywhere is a customizable packaged mobile software application designed specifically for pharmaceutical sales forces.
PocketBuilder Provides a highly productive Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for mobile application development.
PowerBuilder], Industry-leading rapid application development (RAD) tool that increases developer productivity through tight integration of design, modeling, development, and management.
PowerDesigner,The industry’s #1 data-modeling and application design tool for enterprises that need to build or re-engineer applications quickly, cost-effectively,and consistently.(Also sold as Sybase PowerAMC).
Process Server Sybase Process Server is an XML-based business process design tool and execution server. Sybase Process Server helps companies integrate new and existing IT systems into a cohesive business process flow that speed response times, improves efficiency and reduces operational costs.
Pylon Pylon, the industry-leading synchronization software, delivers your email, calendar, address book, and expenses right to your Pocket PC, Palm OS-based PDA, or smart phone – any time, anywhere. Adopted by more than 2,500 corporations in 50 countries, Pylon is the clear choice for mobile productivity solutions.
Real-Time Data ServicesThe simplest, most cost-effective way to give decision-makers immediate insight into changing business events, eliminating information delays created by incompatible systems, batch updates, or application polling.
RepConnectorExtracts data from existing applications, such as databases, and shares it with integration tools such as integration brokers and application servers.
Replication AgentSybase replication technology enables organizations to replicate information in Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, and DB2 UDB (OS/390, NT, and Unix) data sources in near real time to place that information where it can be most effectively used.
Replication Server,Increases the flexibility and lowers the costs of managing multiple data management platforms.
Remotewhere,RemoteWare is an enterprise-class solution that allows you to support a broad range of frontline systems and networking options.
RFID Anywhere Designed to automate the process of developing and deploying RFID applications, RFID Anywhere is a middleware platform that addresses the physical requirements of the technology, and even provides *RFID Enterprise Sybase's RFID Enterprise enables organizations to collect and analyze data across enterprise environments and facilitates the extension of information delivery to mobile devices.the ability to simulate and troubleshoot production RFID environments.
Sales Anywhere A customizable software package that helps organizations accelerate the adoption and ROI of existing CRM solutions, by enabling sales professionals to access these systems from mobile devices, anywhere, at anytime.
Small Business Banking Solution Financial Fusion Small Business Banking Solution enables a full range of business banking and bill payment capabilities from a single point of access on the financial institution's website.
Software Developer Kit (SDK), Provides C, C++, COBOL, and Java application development tools for the Adaptive Server Enterprise product familyProvides multiple clients and servers access to centralized application logic, alleviating the need to constantly update individual clients.
SQL AnywhereSybase provides a wide range of adapters and integration tools for improving integrated development environments as well as the performance and flexibility of integrated systemsMarket-leading data management and enterprise data synchronization solution. It enables the rapid development and deployment of database-powered applications for mobile, remote, and small- to medium-sized business environments)
Sybase IQ, Highly scalable relational database optimized for unsurpassed query performance in business intelligence and large data warehouses.
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)Powerful data management platform that provides real-time services for mission-critical, transaction-intensive applications.
Unwired AcceleratorSpeeds the mobilization of Web applications and data sources for always-available access. Its rapid development tools can mobilize existing applications, or create new mobile applications without programming.
TradeForce SolutionFinancial Fusion TradeForce Solution is the industry's most complete solution designed to meet the STP requirements of the trading industry. It enables you to standardize your financial messaging system for trade initiation, reconciliation and settlement cycles on the infrastructure of your choice.
Unwired Orchestrator ,The Sybase Unwired Orchestrator unwires information to mobilize existing applications and create new applications and processes to meet the needs of the mobile worker.
Sybase WorkSpace, WorkSpace is a unified design and web applications development environment for the Sybase platform that combines the power of enterprise modeling with comprehensive tooling capabilities.
XTNDConnect PCXTNDConnect PC makes data synchronization easy. XTNDConnect PC is a software application that allows you to synchronize your contacts, calendar, tasks, e-mail and notes between your mobile devices and popular PC applications.

User Groups

There are many Sybase-centric user groups around the world. The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) acts as an Umbrella Organisation for these groups, providing logistical support for user group meetings and other events.

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