Sybase And SGI Partner To Deliver Targeted Strategic Business Analysis Solutions
Sybase, Inc. and SGI recently augmented the companies' relationship with a multi-year sales, marketing and engineering agreement focused on the delivery of packaged data warehouse solutions tailored for specific industries. Through this collaboration, organizations in financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications will have access to powerful risk analysis and customer relationship management solutions based on Sybase's Industry Warehouse Studio (IWS) hosted on SGI's high-performance Origin servers.
In addition to vertical solutions, Sybase and SGI will jointly develop and optimize new 64-bit versions of Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), Adaptive Server IQ (ASIQ) for SGI's IRIX operating system that will fully leverage SGI's ccNUMA (cache-coherent non-uniform memory access) architecture to provide ultimate performance and scalability for customers.
"We are pleased to have SGI as a Tier I platform partner," said John Chen, President and CEO of Sybase. "Under our new agreement, SGI has been raised to the highest level of partnership within the Sybase Business Solutions Alliance Program which will be of significant benefit to our many joint customers. We are pleased to be working with a partner who has proven success and expertise in Sybase's key markets with a focus on strategic business analysis."
"Today's data warehousing customers are looking for industry-focused packaged solutions. This partnership between Sybase and SGI establishes an important milestone toward providing true packaged analytic application solutions to the marketplace," stated Wayne Eckerson, Senior Consultant/Analyst, Information Assets, Patricia Seybold Group.
"Clearly, businesses today are looking for ways to fully exploit the value of their data, especially as the Internet and e-commerce become more pervasive," said Rick Belluzzo, President and CEO of SGI. "We look forward to working with Sybase to deliver vertical solutions tuned for performance that will enable customers to quickly extract new insights from data, make more strategic decisions and realize faster ROI."
Sybase's Industry Warehouse Studios contain industry-specific pre-defined applications and a data warehouse design and meta data management environment. Coupled with SGI's high-performance Origin servers, customers will have the ability to quickly analyze and query down to the individual level through terabytes of records.
SGI is a market leader in technical computing, offering the world's most powerful servers, supercomputers and visual workstations. SGI uniquely provides a broad range of high-performance computing and advanced graphics solutions that enable customers to understand and conquer their toughest computing problems. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with offices worldwide, the company is located on the Web at http://www.sgi.com.
Headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., Sybase, Inc. is one of the largest global independent software companies. The company helps businesses integrate, manage and deliver applications, content, and data anywhere they are needed. Sybase's products, combined with its world-class professional services and partner technologies, provide a comprehensive platform for delivering the integrated solutions that businesses need to be successful. Leveraging its existing strengths in enterprise data management and enterprise application development, Sybase, Inc. is focused on delivering end-to-end solutions for mobile and embedded computing, data warehousing, and Web computing environments. Sybase customers represent the industries leading the global economy, with strong concentrations in financial services, public sector, telecommunications, health care and media and entertainment. The company's Web address is http://www.sybase.com.