Sybase Named Best Enterprise Data Management Vendor By Financial Services Community
June 26 2008 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), the largest enterprise software and
services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing
information, today announced that the readers of Waters magazine
voted the company �Best Enterprise Data Management Vendor.� Sybase
received 33 percent of the readers� votes, beating out IBM and
SunGard to win the category. The recognition of Sybase was part of
the 2008 Waters Rankings, an industry-respected award where the
winners are chosen by the qualified readers of Waters magazine, a
financial IT publication with a circulation of over 10,000. To
address enterprise data management (EDM) challenges such as data
mining, predictive modeling, reporting and business intelligence,
Sybase�s analytics server, Sybase� IQ, works with a multitude of
operating systems, hardware platforms, and analytics applications.
As the leading column-oriented database, Sybase IQ delivers answers
up to 100 times faster than traditional RDBMS systems, and is an
enterprise data manager's best friend. In addition, to enable
real-time decision support in securities trading, Sybase introduced
Sybase RAP � The Trading Edition� in May 2008. Sybase RAP
integrates high capacity vector data stores, in-memory transaction
processing and complex event processing engines to deliver a robust
real-time market data analytics platform to the sell-side and
buy-side institutions in the capital markets industry. �The readers
of Waters magazine have embraced Sybase�s brand and reputation for
delivering best-in-class enterprise data management solutions,�
said Phil Albinus, Special Projects Editor at Waters. �By placing
first within the Best Enterprise Data Management Vendor category,
the readers of Waters have acknowledged Sybase�s market leadership.
This is especially notable given how reticent financial services
firms are when it comes to talking about the products running their
businesses.� Waters covers the practical implementation of
technology in the securities industry and is relied on by financial
technology professionals worldwide for focused, in-depth coverage
of financial market data and technology. Each year, the readers of
Waters are invited to choose the best financial IT services and
solutions that help CIOs and CTOs get their job done. This year,
more than 600 voters filled out the Waters Rankings ballots. The
qualified Waters Rankings voters work in today�s leading investment
firms, hedge funds and exchanges. Technology vendors and media
relations firms were not allowed to vote. �We are honored that the
readers of Waters magazine have selected Sybase as the best
enterprise data management vendor,� said Eric Johnson, senior vice
president and general manager of financial services, Sybase. �We�ve
been working closely with the world�s leading financial
institutions and hold regular forums and customer advisory boards
to maintain an open dialogue to address Wall Street�s pain points.
It is gratifying to know our customers have acknowledged our
commitment to their success by granting us this award.� The winners
of the 2008 Waters Rankings will be announced in the July 2008
edition of Waters and on the Waters web site: www.watersonline.com.
Waters celebrated with the winners at an exclusive cocktail party
and awards ceremony at Metrazur in New York�s Grand Central
Terminal last night. For more information on Sybase�s Financial
Services Industry solutions, please visit:
http://www.sybase.com/products/industrysolutions/financialservices.
About Waters Each month, Waters reports and analyzes the business
reasons for and practical implementation of financial technology in
the capital markets and securities industry. Since its launch in
1993, securities industry professionals worldwide have relied on
the magazine for its focused, in-depth coverage surrounding the
confluence of business and technology in market data, trading and
risk technology and infrastructure as well as the human issues of
talent management, staff retention and compensation within the
financial services community. With more than 10,100 subscribers
around the world*, Waters' readers enjoy the insights of CIOs and
CTOs from the global markets. The magazine also releases the
electronic newsletter Waters News each Tuesday to more than 14,000
industry professionals and it sponsors conferences in New York,
London, and Singapore. Waters also hosts briefings, and training
courses in many of the world's financial centers. For more
information, visit www.watersonline.com. About Sybase, Inc. Sybase
is the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively
focused on managing and mobilizing information. With our global
solutions, enterprises can extend their information securely and
make it useful for people anywhere using any device. The world's
most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, and
government runs on Sybase. For more information, visit
http://www.sybase.com. Join us August 4-8 at Mandalay Bay Resort
and Casino in Las Vegas for TechWave 2008, Sybase�s annual user
conference. For more information, visit
http://www.sybase.com/techwave. Sybase and RAP � The Trading
Edition are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. All
other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the
respective companies with which they are associated.
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