Sybase solutions for IBM Power Systems

IBM and Sybase have been delivering high performance solutions to our clients for more than 20 years and have worked together closely to provide tested, optimized solutions utilizing the IBM POWER™ technology for core business applications in key vertical markets running on AIX® and Linux® for both enterprise and general business clients.

Sybase today has a strong worldwide solution presence with IBM Power™ Systems in financial services, telco, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and government. For example: in financial services, Sybase is in 90% of the world's securities firms, 60% of the banks¹ and runs more 50% of the trades on Wall Street². Sybase BI analytics is positioned well in Gartner's Magic Quadrant³. Sybase Mobility offerings, according to IDC have been the mobile device management leader⁴ and the number two mobile middleware leader⁵.

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition for IBM POWER7 Solution — provides high availability to Sybase ASE customers allowing them to protect or improve service levels for mission-critical OLTP with reduced cost of ownership. Unlike other high-availability solutions, Sybase ASE Cluster Edition for IBM POWER7™ offers practically unlimited server failover capabilities and faster recovery speeds. It dramatically decreases infrastructure and operational costs by leveraging the performance, flexibility, and resilience of POWER7 processor-based systems to enable clients to consolidate and replace older, less efficient platforms.

Sybase mBanking | 365 for IBM Power Systems — this solution enables banks and other financial institutions achieve their mobile banking objectives. Sybase and IBM Global Business Services work together with clients to implement these solutions worldwide. This solution gives them the ability to monetize mobile banking and cut operational costs with a comprehensive, turnkey, mobile banking offering that is faster, more complete, and offers a better return on investment than other options. Short message service (SMS) is key, as no other channel can reach 80%+ banking customers anytime and anywhere, far exceeding the reach of Internet banking. Sybase mBanking | 365 for IBM Power Systems is in a unique position with SMS. What is so appealing to banks about this mobile bank solution is that the solution offers 1) revenue generation by monetizing mobile services, 2) major cost reduction opportunities for financial institutions by reducing the most common calls to call centers like check balance, 3) strengthens the bond between banks and customers as Internet banking has done, 4) conditions users for fee based services, and 5) provides call center cost savings.

Sybase Analytic Suite on IBM Power Systems — a complete Business Intelligence (BI) analytic solution at 1/2 the price of the market leader. Sybase Analytic Suite on IBM Power Systems provides an out-of-the box, ready to plug in and run, BI analytic solution for the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) performance accelerator space, competitively positioned as "simple, powerful, flexible." It is designed to solve customer business problems where there are very high criticality analytics and reporting workloads, and where traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and EDWs are failing to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). It is priced lower than specialized analytic engines, but delivers the same Rapid Time to Value and is lower priced than the market leader, Netezza⁶. It is built exclusively for Power Systems: will compete with other appliances and Teradata, and has been built to compliment IBM Balanced Warehouse.

Sybase IQ for IBM Power Systems Solution — provides an enterprise-quality business analytics platform designed to complement existing data warehouse platforms to significantly improve the performance of analytical and reporting applications. It features Sybase IQ, a highly scalable analytical engine that works with existing data warehouses, allowing them to increase their analytics performance up to 100x. Sybase® IQ 15.1 column-based analytics server, working with the IBM Power 595 system and running the AIX version 6.1 operating system (OS), achieved the best overall performance result currently published among all non-clustered systems for the TPC-H benchmark at the 3 TB scale factor, as of November 2009. In addition, the Sybase and IBM solution also recorded the best current overall price/performance result among non-clustered systems that deliver over 100,000 QphH for the TPC-H benchmark at the 3 TB scale factor⁷. This solution helps clients analyze increasing amounts of data by delivering ad hoc query performance up to 100 times faster than traditional RDBMSs while reducing overhead, storage costs and maintenance requirements.

Sybase Risk Analytics Platform (RAP) Solution for IBM Power Systems Solution — provides improved profitability with near-real time trading decisions by consolidating real-time and historical data. It offers a holistic view of the state of the market in a single repository for both live market and historical data. This enables faster reaction to market opportunities—helps eliminate overnight batch updates for quantitative analysis and modeling. It also helps reduce time-to-benefit by using pre-built data models, simplifying and automating common data capture and storage functions. Built on IBM Power processor technology, the Sybase RAP solution provides powerful, scalable database serving for time-critical, risk management environments.

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for IBM Power Systems Solution — provides enterprise quality technology with high-performance data management that is designed to deliver low initial cost and total cost of ownership (TCO). The IBM Power Systems family supports user needs across a broad range of applications, including transaction processing, Web publishing, data mining, systems management and others. This family of 1-to 64-core IBM POWER processor-based systems is designed to provide clients with leadership features for high performance, availability, scalability and dynamic resource allocation. The unique virtualization technologies of IBM PowerVM™ Editions allow users to process more information on a single server, creating the potential to save on total cost of system ownership, as well as space and energy costs.