Sybase Introduces Sybase IQ 12.5 to Accelerate Business Intelligence Results, Reduce Analytics Cost and Complexity

New version of Sybase enterprise analytic engine delivers answers to end-users' questions hundreds of times faster than traditional data warehouse technologies

SYNOPSIS: Sybase IQ(TM) 12.5 represents a new level of simplicity and scalability for enterprise analytics and data warehouse technology. Sybase IQ empowers users to access and analyze real-time information in seconds and provides an effective tool to analyze customer profitability, market penetration, sales effectiveness and operational efficiency.

DUBLIN, Calif., June 24, 2003 -- Sybase (NYSE: SY) Inc., a leading enterprise integration company, today announced the newest version of Sybase IQTM, the highly scalable analytical engine designed specifically from the ground up for unsurpassed query performance and the lowest total cost of ownership for organizations' analytical applications. With the Sybase IQ 12.5 business intelligence infrastructure, users can build and manage even the largest enterprise data warehouses efficiently and economically, delivering on their organizations' objectives to manage costs and transform data into economical value.

Among the major new features included in IQ 12.5 is a three-fold improvement in incremental loading process, which dramatically reduces data warehouse management and administration overhead, as well as optimized multiplexing ability for the speedy processing of concurrent user queries. Built to support multiple terabytes of input data and tested for thousands of users and queries, dozens of nodes and hundreds of CPUs, IQ 12.5 also provides:

-- Broad Enterprise platform support, including Sun Solaris, HP UX, IBM AIX, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, 4.0 Enterprise, Windows 2000, Windows XP

-- Higher performance, greater scalability and lower maintenance and ownership costs to customers

-- Lowest storage cost compared to competitors, requiring up to four times less space than other database management systems

In a separate announcement today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the complete results of TPC-H benchmarking tests for Sybase IQ 12.5 running on Sun Servers ("Sun Fire Servers Running Sybase IQ 12.5 Achieve World Records in TPC-H Price-Performance" - http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-06/sunflash.20030624.1.html ). Sun and Sybase also today announced the availability of a white paper by the Winter Corporation that details and interprets these results, "Demonstrating Efficiency in Large Scale Data Warehouses: a review of new TPC-H results for the Sun-Sybase IQ Platform," available at http://www.sybase.com/tpchwhitepaper.

"Sybase IQ 12.5 has played an important role in radically increasing the amount of data we serve our customers on demand while keeping technical and labor costs at a minimum," said Kamal Nasser, vice president, Information Technology National Services Group, Nielsen Media Research. "We've made a long-term investment in Sybase IQ because it is consistent with our goal of providing a single-source database that many of our different analytical reporting applications can use, and it required very little storage space."

"We believe that customers can do more with less in terms of up front investments they need to put into achieving faster and more effective analytic results," said Deborah Harrington, general manager for Sybase IQ operations. "With Sybase IQ 12.5, users can access and analyze crucial information within seconds, lower maintenance costs, and improve data granularity. It doesn't matter if it's a small or large organization -- users will experience the same value and have the ability to access information in seconds, empowering them to make the right decisions at the right times."

Sybase IQ 12.5 Business Benefits

-- Sybase IQ is easy to deploy and allows users to load, index and query more data, more quickly, than any other business intelligence application, while saving organizations up to 95 percent on associated hardware costs

-- Sybase IQ 12.5 delivers answers to end-users' questions 10 to 1000 times faster than traditional data warehouse technologies, regardless of the number of users or queries

-- Sybase IQ can support thousands of users and concurrent queries, dozens of nodes and hundreds of CPUs without performance degradation

-- Total System Cost for Sybase IQ fits within small or large IT budgets. Small companies will be able to get the same enterprise strength as large companies and large companies can realize unprecedented savings in storage hardware investments

-- Like all Sybase technology, Sybase IQ is built on open standards, ensuring easy integration and interoperability with existing enterprise IT assets

-- Price/Performance: Sybase IQ enables faster business decisions for less money, lower price per query, and requires fewer database administrators to support

Sybase IQ 12.5 Pricing and Availability

Sybase IQ 12.5 is available now, and pricing starts at $30,000. For more information visit: http://www.sybase.com/bi or call 1-800-8 SYBASE (1-800-879-2273).

About Sybase, Inc.

Sybase (NYSE: SY) pioneers software that integrates platforms, databases and applications. Sybase solutions create Information Liquidity -- transforming data into economic value. With Sybase, companies can attain maximum value from their data assets by getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To learn more about Sybase, visit http://www.sybase.com.

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Special Note: Statements concerning Sybase and its subsidiaries' contemplated business relationships, new product releases, and business expectations are by nature forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed. Certain of these risks are detailed from time to time in Sybase's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on Sybase's Web site).

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