About Sybase

Sybase: Where information management and information mobility come together.

For more than 20 years, Sybase has been a leader in developing and expanding innovative database technology for emerging markets. Since our founding in a Berkeley, California garage in 1984, we have earned the trust of many of the world’s leading companies for our ability to manage information and deliver unsurpassed levels of data reliability and security.

With a loyal, global customer base (95 of the Fortune 100 use Sybase technology) and a leading presence in key vertical markets including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and government, Sybase is enabling customers of all sizes to realize the “Unwired Enterprise?where information flows freely and securely within an organization, whether workers conduct business inside the office or on the road.

Today, Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Our open, cross-platform solutions securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge. With Sybase software solutions, customers can optimize and enhance the investments they already own, link together the valuable data resources already in place, and extend the reach of business-critical information to users on the front lines—giving them a financial, agility and productivity edge across all areas of their business.

Creating an information edge for customers.

Throughout the business world, Sybase is providing an information edge for Fortune 500 and other companies. The top 10 global banks and securities firms all rely on Sybase to deliver and process thousands of financial trades—in real time—on Wall Street and financial exchanges from London to Singapore. In the retail market, department stores are using Sybase information mobility solutions to eliminate traditional cash registers (and long lines), enhancing shopping experiences and increasing average ticket sales. In the government sector, organizations are using Sybase solutions to mobilize supply management systems, cutting ship inspection times in half and reducing the time to capture data from one year to two days.

Across Sybase, our business groups cover the database and information mobility spectrum, ensuring your information is securely managed and mobilized to the point of action. Our key business units emphasize:

To learn more about the Unwired Enterprise, click here.

To learn more about Sybase, read our Sybase Fast Facts.

2004 Sybase Industry Leadership

• #1 mobile middleware (1)
• #1 mobile database (2)
• #1 in mobile device management enterprise software (3)
• Greater than 90 percent customer satisfaction rate (4)
• The world’s largest data warehouses (5)
• One of the largest mobile applications in the world—AvantGo®—with more than 10 million registered users
• LinuxWorld Readers’ Choice and Open Source World Editors’ Choice award recipient: Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise
• Open Source World Magazine’s “The Best SMB Linux Package Award” in 2003
• Largest market share in financial services of pure-play EAI vendors (6)
• One of the best places to work in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area (7)
• 2005 MobilTrax Mobility Award
• 2004 Mobile Middleware Marketing Strategy Leadership (8)
• 2003 Forbes Best of the Web
• 2003 Computerworld Honors

(1) IDC, Worldwide Middleware Competitive Analysis 2004
(2) Gartner Dataquest
(3) IDC #31745, August 2004
(4) Survey delivered by Satmetrix in December 2003, percentage of respondents rating satisfaction with Sybase’s overall performance at midpoint or higher
(5) 2003 Winter Corporation Top Ten Program for Largest Database Size and Most Rows/Records for Microsoft Windows-based systems using Sybase IQ™
(6) Source Tower, The Middleware Revolution
(7) April 2, 2003, San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
(8) Frost and Sullivan