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 solutions for IBM AIX and Linux
IBM mCommerce Appliance Solution — The IBM mCommerce Appliance Solution addresses the requirements of financial institutions and mobile operators who want to quickly offer new value-added mobile commerce services. Financial institutions recognize the mobile economy as an opportunity to create new revenue streams, attract new deposits, reduce costs, reduce fraud, and increase customer loyalty through new mobilised products and services. Mobile operators want to acquire and retain customers through new value-added mobile commerce services that go beyond operator billing and scratch cards.
1 Source: Sybase Marketing Analysis, 2006
2 Source: Sybase Marketing Analysis, 2006
3 Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems" by Donald Feinberg and Mark A. Beyer, 12 September 2006.
4 Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Device Management Enterprise 2006 (IDC #203353, September 2006);
5 Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Middleware 2006-2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares (IDC #204829, December 2006). The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 09/12/06 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
