SY Sybase, Inc.

SYNOPSIS: Sales Anywhere, the next generation of the popular Mobile Sales product from iAnywhere, is designed to accelerate field adoption of salesforce.com; planned new features include improved phone and e-mail functionality, expanded language support, advanced search capabilities and support for RIM BlackBerry. DREAMFORCE '05, San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced Sales Anywhere(TM) for Salesforce. Sales Anywhere for Salesforce ensures that salesforce.com customers have quick, easy access to business critical information on their handheld devices -- with or without a wireless connection. Sales Anywhere for Salesforce from iAnywhere was announced today in San Francisco at Dreamforce '05, salesforce.com's third annual user and developer conference. "iAnywhere has delivered a valuable tool for mobilizing solutions such as Salesforce," said George Hu, VP and General Manager, Salesforce. "Ease-of-use is a key factor in sales adoption of CRM applications and Sales Anywhere can help drive increased productivity and cost-savings for joint customers through easy information access while in the field." "Sales Anywhere for Salesforce provides mobile sales professionals anywhere, anytime access to critical information when they need it-during travel, at a customer location or in their home office," said Brian Vink, VP Marketing, iAnywhere. "In addition, Sales Anywhere is a hosted service that is exceptionally easy to deploy and maintain, and requires no administrative setup. This keeps costs low and minimizes adoption barriers while enabling dramatically increased field sales effectiveness and productivity." Sales Anywhere provides handheld access to key sales tools at the point of customer interaction, minimizing downtime by providing access to multiple data resources such as CRM, ERP, intranet and legacy systems. The tight integration of Sales Anywhere for Salesforce via the Appforce on-demand platform ensures that salesforce.com customers have quick, efficient access to their business critical information. Additional product information is available online at http://www.ianywhere.com/salesanywhere. New features of Sales Anywhere include the following: -- Greater Ease-of-Use -- Initiate and track e-mail and phone conversations directly from within Sales Anywhere on the mobile device. -- Search (simple and advanced) and sort list views to quickly find information. -- Improved Application Setup -- Users can be up and running in minutes. -- Customer information and application updates (including any customization changes) delivered automatically at synchronization. -- For customers using salesforce.com, customizations such as custom fields, record type/page layout, renamed tabs, and sharing rules are automatically applied. Data filtering is provided automatically through the salesforce.com Offline Briefcase. -- Additional Language Support -- Sales Anywhere now supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese. -- Support for a Wide Range of Salesforce Functions - salesforce.com customers can now take advantage of Sales Anywhere features such as Account Management and Opportunity Management (including access to product line items and schedules) as well as associated contacts, activities, and tasks. -- Broad Mobile Device Platform Support -- Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Pocket PC Phone devices from manufacturers such as HP, Dell, Toshiba, Symbol and Acer -- Palm OS 5 devices such as the Treo 650 and Tungsten T5 -- RIM BlackBerry devices expected later this year -- register today for the Sales Anywhere Early Adopter Program for BlackBerry at http://www.ianywhere.com/salesanybbadopter About iAnywhere iAnywhere provides software solutions that enable applications used on the front lines of business to be just as reliable, secure and available as those at headquarters. Built from inception for the unique frontline environment, our solutions hold worldwide market leadership positions in mobile and embedded databases, mobile device management and security, and mobile middleware. Millions of subscribers, 15,000 customers and 1,000 partners rely on the company's award-winning technologies, including SQL Anywhere(R), Afaria(R), and the AvantGo(R) mobile Internet service. iAnywhere is a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY). Visit http://www.ianywhere.com/ for more information. About salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforce family of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on demand. Appforce, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers to customize and integrate the Salesforce family to meet their unique business needs, and build whole new powerful applications quickly and easily. Appforce applications are available via AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand application sharing service. Customers can also take advantage of salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings. As of July 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 16,900 customers and approximately 308,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com services should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE. Sybase, iAnywhere, iAnywhere Solutions, SQL Anywhere, Sales Anywhere, Afaria, and AvantGo are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. (R) indicates registration in the United States of America. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Special Note: Statements concerning iAnywhere Solutions' product market, relationships with its customers and new products are forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could ultimately affect such statements are detailed from time to time in Sybase's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on the Company's web site). Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and Appforce and AppExchange are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners. Media Contact: Crystal King iAnywhere Solutions 978-287-1524 Jane Hynes Salesforce.com Public Relations 415-901-5079 DATASOURCE: iAnywhere Solutions, Inc. CONTACT: Media Contact: Crystal King of iAnywhere Solutions, +1-978-287-1524, ; or Jane Hynes of Salesforce.com Public Relations, +1-415-901-5079, Web site: http://www.ianywhere.com/

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