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SAS® Business Intelligence Made Easy for Business Professionals
Top Email Client Joins Other SAS Query-and-Reporting Interfaces, Improves Outlook for Better Decisions
CARY, N.C. (October 25, 2010) – As business intelligence applications spread throughout enterprises of all sizes, business analytics leader SAS is extending the power of query and reporting within Microsoft Outlook, the world’s most widely used email package.
SAS offers Microsoft Office integration in SAS BI Server and SAS Enterprise BI Server with new support for access through Outlook, ensuring a familiar, self-service interface to key information for critical decisions. Market watchers estimate that MS Outlook makes up between 37 percent and 43 percent of all e-mail clients.
“Leveraging Outlook is a great way to make BI more pervasive, particularly for casual users, because email is more widely used than even Excel. As I discussed in a Sept. 27 “Ease of Use in BI” report, email is rated significantly easier to use than BI tools, and easier-to-use BI tools boast a 10 percent higher adoption rate than BI usage overall,” said Cindi Howson, BI Scorecard founder and author of Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App.
“The enhancement to SAS Microsoft Office integration takes the integration of BI and e-mail to a new level, with the e-mail client used as a navigation tool to access all reports and dashboards. Folders on the SAS BI Server automatically appear as folders in Outlook. From within Outlook, users can view, refresh or send a report to another person,” said Howson. “This will make it much easier to increase BI adoption.”
SAS Business Intelligence lets less technical users immediately access data, modify data requests and display information visually. Those business professionals may use SAS BI through Sharepoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. They can choose from a library of predefined but customizable templates or design their own. Users gain insight, investigate patterns and discover previously hidden facts through visual queries.
“There is no substitute for timely, detailed reports to best manage the business,” said Bobby Hull, Systems Analyst at BGF Industries. “We can’t lock up information in a back office
Query and reporting are key components of the SAS Business Analytics Framework
The SAS Business Analytics Framework includes industry and line-of-business solutions, as well as analytic, data management, query and reporting technologies. Companies can address the most critical business issues immediately and then add new functions over time, enabling continuous performance improvement.
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Sybase Extends Global Leadership in Real Time Analytics with Enhanced Liquidity Management Suite (LMS)
LMS Consolidates Enterprise-Wide Payment and Transaction InformationLeveraging Sybase IQ and Sybase ASE
AMSTERDAM (October 25, 2010) – Sybase, Inc., an SAP company (NYSE:SAP) and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced a new release of Sybase® Liquidity Management Suite (LMS), providing the global financial services industry with a variety of new modules enabling native support for Sybase’s relational database management system and analytics platform. Further demonstrating Sybase’s leadership in analytics for capital markets, Sybase LMS consolidates payment and transaction information in real-time, across multiple systems, to provide a comprehensive enterprise-wide capability for managing operational liquidity, supporting optimal use of operating capital while minimizing operation risk.
“Given the fact that business-as-usual Liquidity Risk Management processes contributed to the financial crisis, the need for powerful, flexible and customizable LRM solutions is resoundingly clear in this post-crisis era,” said Aite Group Senior Analyst John Jay. “Solutions like Sybase’s Liquidity Management Suite provide a portfolio of mission-critical functionalities, which can be made operational quickly, across enterprise-wide and more granular business liquidity views to meet the current environment of risk, compliance and regulatory conservatism.”
The latest version of Sybase LMS provides significantly enhanced capabilities for more granular intra-day liquidity risk analytics and reporting. Integrated with Sybase’s award-winning column-based database, Sybase IQ, the Sybase Liquidity Risk Manager module enables bank treasuries to track positions in real-time
“In times of restricted credit and volatile markets, liquidity management is getting a lot of attention,” said Jeff Wootton, Senior Director, Product Management at Sybase. “Sybase Liquidity Management Suite provides bank treasurers and funding managers with more timely information, consolidated from across the enterprise, in order to more closely manage current liquidity and to make timely, strategically sound funding decisions.”
The enhanced LMS suite also offers a market-leading centralized, multi-entity solution that is designed expressly for the needs of treasurers and funding managers in managing short-term liquidity. The Cash Flow Manager and Collateral Manager modules now offer native support for Sybase ASE, providing the ability to store all transactions collected by the LMS in Sybase ASE as the database-of-record. The enhanced Liquidity Risk Manager now supports Sybase IQ for scenario modeling, providing greater granularity of analysis than was previously available.
Importantly, the financial crisis made it evident that greater sophistication in reporting and analysis is required to ensure that financial institutions have real-time insight into their short term liquidity. Capital adequacy may be appropriate for long term management of liquidity risk, but in the short-term, only a cash flow analysis will provide a true picture. This enhanced capacity takes on added weight with the approaching implementation of Basel III, which calls for banks to have systems in place to manage short term liquidity.
Sybase Liquidity Management Suite is uniquely suited to meet the need for increased compression of reporting cycles as part of heightened regulatory demands for liquidity reporting. Employing streaming technology based on Sybase CEP technology, LMS enables banks to accurately determine and predict the appropriate levels of liquidity and collateral at low-latency speeds on a par with the speed of trades. The result is the only intraday liquidity management application suite of its kind designed for treasurers and funding managers.
Sybase’s leading financial solutions include advanced data management and analytics that improve trading, risk management, compliance and market data management across the enterprise. For more information on Sybase’s Capital Markets industry solutions, visit: www.sybase.com/capitalmarkets or read blogs.sybase.com/tradingandrisk. Please visit us at Booth #A645 at SIBOS in Amsterdam, October 25-29, 2010.
About Sybase
Sybase, an SAP® company, is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world’s most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information: www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: blogs.sybase.com. Follow us on Twitter at @Sybase.
Sybase is a registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. ® indicates registration in the United States. SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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APS Bank Executives Gain Visibility Into Corporate Performance With Panorama NovaView
Community Bank Chooses Panorama Software BI Suite for Intuitive Web Interface and Tight Microsoft Integration
TORONTO (October 19, 2010) – Panorama Software, a global leader in proactive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced APS Bank has selected Panorama NovaView Enterprise Suite to provide its management actionable insights into corporate performance trends.
APS Bank was established in 1910 to inculcate savings habits for the working class. Since then, APS has evolved into a community bank focused on personal banking services with multiple locations across the Maltese Islands.
To improve overall business performance, APS Bank recognized that a dynamic enterprise business intelligence solution could help improve decision making across the organization. Following an extensive search, APS Bank selected Microsoft platform and Panorama NovaView as its corporate BI infrastructure based on its ease of use, tight integration with Microsoft Office/SharePoint, and the ability to provide web-based access to data analysis and reporting throughout the enterprise.
APS Bank plans to integrate NovaView across its management layer. Introducing the solution to its entire organization will streamline overall management operation by providing greater transparency for all important KPI’s (key performance indicators) and significantly improving response time to business opportunities. With Panorama NovaView, management and other information workers will be able to drill down and analyze terabytes of data in real time through a set of intuitive business intelligence tools and simple, web-based access.
“After evaluating other BI solutions, Panorama NovaView was clearly the best fit for our business needs because of its intuitive web interface and self-service BI capabilities,” said Luciano Anastasi, Head of Information Technology Division of APS Bank. “Branch managers are thrilled to have multi-level views of business performance, as well as the ability to easily drill into data for deep, efficient analysis.”
APS Bank will leverage NovaView’s tight integration with Microsoft Office and SharePoint to maintain efficiency with existing Microsoft applications that executives are already using in their day to day work. All managers will be able to continue using SharePoint as the corporate information center, without experiencing any limitations on advanced analysis, web-based reporting or dashboarding.
“Microsoft Malta is excited to be collaborating with Panorama Software to combine Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Panorama NovaView and provide APS Bank with a powerful solution that is aimed at boosting business productivity on a multitude of levels,” said Nick Tonna, Enterprise Segment Manager for Microsoft Malta. “Our joint solution will allow senior management at APS Bank to receive up-to-the minute reports on corporate performance trends while they focus on the most important aspect of their business – the bank’s clients.”
Panorama NovaView implementation will be done by NewEra, Panorama Software’s partner in Malta. In addition to deploying the NovaView BI suite, NewEra will provide its clients with a full suite of services surrounding the software, including consulting, training and customer support.
About NewEra:
NewEra Solutions has been providing Business Intelligence Solutions using cutting edge technology since 2007. NewEra Solutions, who are proud of having a number of leading companies in Malta in its portfolio come from different Market segments such as Distributors and Supply Chain, Insurance, Legal and Financial Services and Telecom companies. The addition of APS means that NewEra Solutions adds the banking sector with Panorama, to its notch.
The success is owed to the dedication and commitment of their staff and through the use of best practices, industry standard methodologies and the creation of a business bonding with their customers. Each implementation is unique and tailor made to client’s requirements making sure that the client’s expectations are exceeded. NewEra’s ultimate satisfaction is that each and every client uses its BI solution on a daily basis and since its implementation the Business Intelligence project becomes an intrinsic part of the client’s business.
NewEra, Panorama Software and Microsoft (Malta) are collaborating closely to the extent of being in a position to offer a Business Intelligence solution that no other Business Intelligence provider can offer.
NewEra Solutions and Microsoft (Malta) are also collaborating in providing training jointly on Microsoft products such as MS SQL Server Analysis and Integrated Services, Biztalk and MS SharePoint both for the local and for the foreign Market. NewEra is also strongly present in the provision of Sales Order Processing Solutions (Sales Force Automation products) using wireless technology and VPN architecture to enable sales reps transmit sales orders from anywhere and integration with any ERP system.
Apart from Malta, NewEra also serves the Italian Market.
About Panorama Software:
Panorama Software empowers individuals and global organizations with the ability to rapidly analyze data, identify trends, maximize business opportunities and improve corporate performance and results through a complete SaaS and on-premise BI solution.
Panorama NovaView®, the company’s flagship solution, is a comprehensive Business Intelligence product suite of Analytics, Reporting, Dashboarding, Scorecarding and Visualization designed to work on top of any data source – OLAP, Relational, Spreadsheets or In-Memory (PowerPivot).
Founded in 1993, Panorama is a leading innovator in Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Multidimensional Expressions (MDX). Panorama sold its OLAP technology to Microsoft Corporation in 1996; the technology was rebranded as SQL Server(TM) Analysis Services and integrated into the SQL Server(TM) platform. Panorama supports over 1,500 customers worldwide in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecommunications and media. Panorama has a wide eco-system of partners in 30 countries, and maintains offices throughout North America, EMEA and Asia. Visit www.panorama.com to learn more about Panorama’s Business Intelligence Solutions.
NovaView and the Panorama logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Panorama Software Ltd. All other company product or brand names are the trademarks or the registered trademarks of their respective companies. Panorama Software Ltd. is not responsible for errors or omissions. Copyright 2009 Panorama Software Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Zap Business Intelligence 2010 Launched
Easy, fast BI solution for the SQL Server platform
BRISBANE, Australia (September 14, 2010) – Zap today announced the launch of Zap Business Intelligence 2010, a new software solution that makes business intelligence (BI) more user-friendly and less reliant on technical experts.
“We heard clearly from the market that BI was too complex and technical to implement effectively, or even consider in the first place,” said Zap President, Garth D. Laird. “We went back to the drawing board to completely redesign our BI solutions to overcome this barrier, while also taking advantage of the latest architecture and deployment options such as cloud computing.”
Based on the Microsoft SQL Server® platform, Zap Business Intelligence 2010 is web-based and provides capabilities such as dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, reports, analysis, alerts, report scheduling, and optional predictive analytics. A unique feature is the ability to easily share and re-use analytics between business units, geographies, companies, or even across different deployments.
Zap Business Intelligence 2010 meets the needs of enterprise and mid-market customers using many different business systems, and is available in Europe, Middle East, Africa, North America, and Asia-Pacific.
For customers with SQL Server® data sources or Microsoft Dynamics® data sources, Zap CubeXpress fast tracks cube creation and maintenance to enable rapid deployment with minimal technical resources. Microsoft Dynamics CRM, NAV and now AX customers can take advantage of this tool, and are also provided with out-of-the-box BI content to speed up implementation. Microsoft customers have the added advantage of integrating Zap Business Intelligence with their existing technology, such as Dynamics, SharePoint, Outlook, and Excel.
Comments from customers already seeing the benefit of Zap Business Intelligence 2010:
“Zap’s 2010 solution has a user friendly interface, and it’s easy to create and modify reports,” said Kristoffer Gustafson, LK Group IT Manager, Sweden. “We wanted fast access to performance figures, so a speedy implementation was important. A solution that could be used in our businesses across the world, including Asia, was also a consideration.”
“Zap Business Intelligence 2010 has changed the way we use our corporate information,” said Curt Wilson, Management Accountant, Angus Knight, Australia. “Across the company, our branches and departments are now kept instantly up-to-date and can be much more proactive about managing performance. We have freed staff from the burden of manual reporting, and can now focus on understanding insights, setting goals, and actually improving the business.”
About Zap
Zap creates business intelligence (BI) software that helps improve corporate performance. Committed to innovation, Zap was awarded the 2009 Microsoft Independent Software Vendor/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year, as well as the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Australia. Zap software is used by mid-market companies through to enterprises, across many industries and business systems. Zap also offers a range of out-of-the-box solutions specifically for Microsoft Dynamics business solutions that fast track the return on investment in BI technology. Zap is a partner-led company, supporting customers and partners from offices across Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA); North America; Asia; and Australasia. For more information go to www.zaptechnology.com
Product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Zap
Amy Johnson, +61 402 355 063
Marketing Communications Coordinator
amy.johnson@zaptechnology.com
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Panorama Software Expands APAC Business Intelligence Market Presence
TEC and TransPacific Team up with Panorama for BI Excellence in Japan and India
TORONTO (August 11, 2010) – Panorama Software, a global leader in proactive Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced further expansion of the company’s Asia Pacific operations. The expansion includes establishing strategic partnerships in Japan and India.
“We are very excited about the opportunities in the Asia Pacific market,” said Jonathan Ben Shaoul, Director of Sales APAC & CEE, Panorama Software. “It has become an international investment region where many foreign companies have set up branches, research centers, manufacturing plants and sales offices. We are pleased to help organizations like these access information and help them make better business decisions from any location at any time.”
Panorama created a strategic partnership with TEC, a leading Japanese software developer, IT consultancy and system integrator with extensive knowledge on Microsoft platform and products. The partnership will facilitate the distribution of Panorama’s NovaView®, Panorama’s flagship BI solution, and a full suite of product support to TEC’s clients in Japan.
“Teaming with Panorama is opening new doors to our business associates in Japan, who gain new innovative ways to analyze data using NovaView’s intuitive user interface,” said Takahiro Ogawa, General Director of Business Administration Japan & China, NIHON TECHNICS CO., LTD (TEC). “The rich, connected world of Panorama’s NovaView opens up on-demand business insight and outstanding simplicity that extends the usefulness of data to business users across the enterprise, who in turn drive greater business impact.”
Panorama has also secured partnership with TransPacific, a software company specializing in customized BI solutions in India. In addition to reselling the NovaView BI suite, TransPacific will provide its clients with a full suite of services surrounding the software which includes consulting, implementation, training and customer support.
“For TransPacific, the addition of Panorama’s NovaView product line represents a crucial step in bringing our clients the next generation of self-service BI,” said Prashant Telang, Director of Technology TransPacific. “NovaView gives our clients the opportunity to choose between packaged and custom BI solutions while offering them the most cutting-edge BI suite to build upon new Microsoft innovations like PowerPivot.”
About TEC:
TEC, with 27 years’ track record in the software industry, is an independent software vendor that designs and manufactures business analysis services for a wide range of industries including manufacturers, retails, distributors, and financial and service companies. In addition, the company’s four business offices in Japan and a local office in China enable TEC to offer a wide range of sales activities, which have immediate effects, and the support system that meet local requirements.
About TransPacific:
TransPacific Software Pvt. Ltd., established in 2006, is an offshore outsourcing and Business Intelligence software development provider with development office in Mumbai, India. TransPacific offers consultancy services in data warehousing and BI space including development of trend analysis, predictive analysis and forecasting models. Visit http://www.transpacific.in for more information about the company.
About Panorama Software:
Panorama Software empowers individuals and global organizations with the ability to rapidly analyze data, identify trends, maximize business opportunities and improve corporate performance and results through a complete SaaS and on-premise BI solution.
Panorama NovaView®, the company’s flagship solution, is a comprehensive Business Intelligence product suite of Analytics, Reporting, Dashboarding, Scorecarding and Visualization designed to work on top of any data source – OLAP, Relational, Spreadsheets or In-Memory (PowerPivot).
Founded in 1993, Panorama is a leading innovator in Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Multidimensional Expressions (MDX). Panorama sold its OLAP technology to Microsoft Corporation in 1996; the technology was rebranded as SQL Server™ Analysis Services and integrated into the SQL Server™ platform. Panorama supports over 1,500 customers worldwide in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecommunications and media. Panorama has a wide eco-system of partners in 30 countries, and maintains offices throughout North America, EMEA and Asia. Visit www.panorama.com to learn more about Panorama’s Business Intelligence Solutions.
NovaView and the Panorama logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Panorama Software Ltd. All other company product or brand names are the trademarks or the registered trademarks of their respective companies. Panorama Software Ltd. is not responsible for errors or omissions. Copyright 2009 Panorama Software Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Sybase Launches Breakthrough Technology for Extremely Fast Replication and Real-Time Analytics Support
New Release of Replication Server Includes Patent Pending Technology for High Volume, Immediate Data Transfer Requirements
WASHINGTON (August 10, 2010) – SYBASE TECHWAVE 2010
Sybase is the only company to provide patent-pending High Volume Adaptive Replication (HVAR) technology, which utilizes a groundbreaking optimization technique to intelligently analyze rapidly changing data and deliver only final outcomes. The result is dramatically higher performance compared to existing replication methods. Combined with parallel Data Server Interfaces, enterprises can reduce the time to replicate extremely high volumes of data from hours down to minutes or seconds. Sybase Replication Server also introduces the Real-Time Loading Edition for rapid loading of transactional data from Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE) into the Sybase IQ analytics server. Enterprises operating in markets where seconds and minutes make the difference between profit and loss now have near-instantaneous access to operational data from their Business Intelligence tools, enabling real-time decision making.
“NTT DATA Group provides a broad range of IT services to customers worldwide. Because of our extensive number of customers running a very high volume of OLTP transactions through the network, we were experiencing up to three hour latency in replicating from Sybase ASE to Sybase IQ,” said Masatoshi Yokogawa, Senior Expert, Research and Development, NTT DATA CORPORATION. “When we incorporated Sybase Replication Server Real-Time Loading Edition, the time it took to replicate these transactions was reduced dramatically, from three hours to less than five minutes, giving our customers critical real-time data warehouse capability.”
This latest release includes the following capabilities:
- Real Time Loading for Sybase IQ
- Advanced Performance Services
- New Heterogeneous Capabilities
- In-Memory Database Replication
“In today’s volatile and competitive business climate, enterprises must create agile businesses by tapping into real-time analytics and decision support to quickly predict outcomes and identify risks,” said Brian Vink, Vice President, Data Management products, Sybase. “Replication Server 15.5 gives organizations a data movement platform that will scale with them as they move to the next level of real-time operations and business analytics.”
Availability
Sybase Replication Server 15.5 is currently available. For more information visit: http://www.sybase.com/replicationserver
About Sybase
Sybase, an SAP company, is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world’s most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com. Follow us on Twitter at @Sybase.
Sybase, Replication Server and Adaptive Server Enterprise are registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. ® indicates registration in the United States. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
Forward Looking Statements
Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “predict,” “should” and “will” and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect SAP’s future financial results are discussed more fully in SAP’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including SAP’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.
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Sybase, Inc.
Jeff Neal, 925-236-5035
jeff.neal@sybase.com
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Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Accelerates Market Share, Expands Adoption and Wins New Customers in Database Market
International Enterprises such as Swiss Medical, Revelex and ICICI Prudential Embrace Sybase ASE 15 to Successfully Manage Expanding IT Environments
WASHINGTON (August 10, 2010) – SYBASE TECHWAVE SYMPOSIUM
Strong momentum is being driven by a very committed customer base with a 97 percent customer satisfaction rate, and with the continued addition of new customers. Through scalable database performance, effective management of rapidly growing data sets, and rock-solid reliability, Sybase ASE continues to propel the business growth of customers worldwide.
Customers leveraging Sybase ASE to meet their extreme transaction processing needs include Swiss Medical, the Argentinean health care group deploying ASE Cluster Edition to turbocharge processing capacity; technology travel company Revelex, utilizing ASE Encrypted Column Option to meet secure database payment compliance requirements; and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, combining Sybase ASE and Sybase IQ to meet dual database requirements.
“The number of organizations adopting Sybase ASE 15 has grown significantly as enterprises face continually growing demand for increased efficiency and availability while dealing with the exploding requirements of transaction processing systems to support large volumes of concurrent users with high transaction rates,” said Brian Vink, vice-president, data management products, Sybase. “Our continued leadership and momentum in the database management market is a direct result of ASE’s ability to address these extreme requirements by delivering ultra-fast, nonstop performance on cost-effective, standards-based platforms.”
Sybase continues to build a foundation for long term growth of Sybase ASE investing in technology innovations such as in-memory databases, and by certifying Sybase ASE 15 with key enterprise applications. The recent release of Sybase ASE 15.5 introduces new innovations with ASE In-memory Databases option where early adopters are benefiting from large performance gains with very little implementation effort. For example, a large financial services firm saw a 9x performance improvement without having to change application code or rewrite queries. Furthermore, Sybase continues to work with application vendors such as SunGard to certify Sybase ASE 15 with key applications in financial services.
ASE is recognized as a leader in Enterprise Database Management Systems in Forrester Research’s June 2009 Database wave report (The Forrester Wave(TM): Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009, Forrester Research, Inc., June 30, 2009)i, and has garnered awards including Enterprise Open Source Magazine’s “Best Linux Database”; SD Times 100 for leadership in Database and Data Tools; and Best Enterprise Data Management Vendor by Waters Magazine.
Swiss Medical doubles transaction processing capacity
Swiss Medical Group (SMG) is one of the top leaders in the Argentinean healthcare market, with more than 50,000 professionals from all specialties, and over 5,000 providers of diagnosis and treatment. Faced with the explosive growth of patient information when dealing with situations such as the H1N1 influenza, SMG needed a solution to overcome low transaction processing capacity, which was a roadblock to handling a significant increase in the number of queries. Working with a team including Sybase Professional Services, SMG migrated its corporate data center to an external provider; changed the hardware architecture; and migrated its databases to Sybase ASE 15 Cluster Edition.
“We are now able to double processing capacity and offer fast delivery of information when the clients request it. ASE Cluster Edition is practically automatic and we administer the storage capacity from a single console,” said Eduardo del Piano, systems manager of Swiss Medical Group. “We have been confidently working with Sybase for more than twelve years and this new architecture enables our applications to grow along with the evolution of our business.”
Revelex secures its data
Revelex, the leading technology company in the travel industry, serves as many as 10 million requests every day from approximately one million consumers, providing access to profile information, itinerary data and a variety of other travel services through its Sybase ASE database. When its 5,300 clients began to require compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Sarbanes-Oxley rules, Revelex began to research options for encrypting its ASE database in order to meet those compliance requirements.
“Within a three month time frame, we needed to encrypt credit card data as well as all personal consumer information that flows through our system. During our evaluation process, it became apparent we could use Sybase encryption without having to recode our existing ASE database application,” said Scott Martin, database administrator, Revelex. “The ASE Encrypted Column Option was easy to deploy, supplied the features we needed within our required time frame, and provided a shallow learning curve.”
ICICI Prudential solves data-synchronization challenge
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company is a joint venture between ICICI Bank and Prudential plc. Its nation-wide reach includes over 1,900 branches (inclusive of 1,074 micro-offices), over 210,000 advisors; and 7 bancassurance partners. The company revamped its information system by developing a distributed data management architecture that stores business information in specialized databases. To achieve this, Sybase ASE database platform handles real-time transaction processing and provides transformed data to Sybase IQ, the analytics database allowing its users to generate reports on a near real-time basis on current data.
“With the help of the single view of customer information enabled through Sybase technology, ICICI Prudential Life can now help customers more effectively and efficiently as now employees have immediate access to accurate, up-to-date information, this enhances up-sell/Cross-sell as well as service capabilities,” said Chaya Pisupati, Sr. Vice President & Head IT, ICICI Prudential Life.
i The Forrester Wave(TM): Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009, Forrester Research, Inc., June 30, 2009
About Sybase
Sybase, an SAP company, is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world’s most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com. Follow us on Twitter at @Sybase.
Sybase and Adaptive Server Enterprise are registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
Contact
Sybase, Inc.
Scott Malinowski, 978-287-1793
scott.malinowski@sybase.com
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Bite Communications for Sybase, Inc.
Samantha Chen, 416-217-0777
Samantha.chen@bitecommunications.com
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Will County Health Department Using Kronos
The Will County Health Department in Illinois is using the time and attendance solution from Kronos® Incorporated to accurately track employee time at H1N1 flu vaccination clinics. The real-time information offered by Kronos is helping the department properly reimburse employees working extra hour
CHELMSFORD, Mass. (December 17, 2009) –
The Will County Health Department in Illinois is using the time and attendance solution from Kronos® Incorporated to accurately track employee time at H1N1 flu vaccination clinics. The real-time information offered by Kronos is helping the department properly reimburse employees working extra hours and effectively track labor hours accurately for federal grants received to administer the clinics.
News Facts
* Kronos is helping the health department pay its employees working extra hours at seven clinics set up in schools across the county. Employees are conducting various duties including site coordination, vaccine administration, and review of release forms.
* Will County Health Department is also using Kronos to develop a First Responder emergency tracking strategy.
* Kronos allows the health department to add extra pay codes and specific comments in the system, to help calculate accurate overtime for First Responders. Given the complexity of a government organization’s payroll environment, the more challenging pay rules a time and attendance system can handle, the greater the reduction in error.
* Will County Health Department selected Kronos to completely automate and centralize its time and attendance data collection process, which is a common weak point in many government infrastructures. If time and attendance data collection is done manually, it can leak hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars each year. Considering that labor costs represent one of the largest operational expenses for government organizations, time and attendance data collection is a great place to look for efficiency improvement and quick payback.
Supporting Quotes
* Sue Olenek, director of administrative services, Will County Health Department
“Complete automation of complex processes such as tracking time, calculating overtime, and managing absence leaves no room for error. This becomes even more critical when we need employees to spend extra hours during unforeseen circumstances. Kronos has been a valuable technology partner in enabling us to develop our First Responder strategy and helping us become as accountable as possible to the public.”
* Christine Carmichael, director of public sector marketing, Kronos
“Today it is the H1N1 virus that is capturing the nation’s attention, but tomorrow it may be another crisis. Since workers are key to successfully executing a First Responder strategy, the ability to actually track employee time is crucial. Will County Health Department is using Kronos solutions to achieve the important goal of tracking effectively during emergencies in addition to controlling labor costs, minimizing compliance risk, and improving workforce productivity.”
Supporting Resources
* About Will County Health Department
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.
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Source: Kronos
Sybase IQ 15.1 Delivers Top Performance Results for Enterprise-Scale Data Warehousing and Analytics With TPC-H™ Benchmark
Industry-Leading TPC-H Benchmark Results Achieved for Performance and Price/Performance at 3 TB Scale Factor on IBM System
DUBLIN, Calif. (December 16, 2009) – Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced that its industry-leading Sybase® IQ 15.1 column-based analytics server, working with the IBM® Power 595 system and running the AIX 6L version 6.1 Operating System (OS) 1, achieved the best overall performance result currently published among all non-clustered systems for the TPC-H benchmark at the 3 TB scale factor 2. In addition, the Sybase and IBM solution 1 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 factor 4.
The TPC-H benchmark simulates decision support systems that analyze enterprise-scale data volumes, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions. This benchmark result provides another example of how Sybase IQ 15.1’s innovative architecture and query parallelism delivers maximum performance while requiring less overall IT resources by fully utilizing available assets, which significantly reduces ownership costs.
“Today’s forward-looking enterprises are searching for the fastest and most affordable ways to deliver results for mission-critical analytics, business intelligence and reporting solutions,” said Dan Lahl, Director of Analytics for Sybase. “This benchmark demonstrates that Sybase IQ, the leading column-based analytics server, combined with IBM Power systems, deliver on Sybase IQ’s promise of unsurpassed analytics query speeds, on terabytes of data, delivered to thousands of users at exactly the right time.”
The TPC-H benchmark results for this joint Sybase and IBM solution 1 include:
- The best performance at the 3000 GB scale-factor (3TB) among non-clustered systems 2 and second best performance of all results 3 delivering 156,537.3 QphH@3000GB 1
- The best price-performance at the 3000 GB scale-factor (3TB) of any non-clustered system performing over 100k QphH@3000GB 4 delivering US$20.60/QphH@3000GB 1
- With Sybase IQ 15.1, the highest QphH performance ever published for Sybase IQ in the TPC-H benchmark – at least 18 times greater than any previous result achieved with Sybase IQ 12.6 or 12.7 5
- The IBM Power™ 595 server, driven by POWER6® processors, is the most powerful member of the IBM Power Systems™ family.
Sybase IQ combines extraordinary speed and agility with low total cost of ownership, enabling enterprises to perform the critical business analysis and reporting that was previously impossible, impractical or cost-prohibitive. More than 1,700 customers worldwide have adopted Sybase IQ’s innovative, column-based processing approach to power their critical analytical and reporting systems. Sybase IQ solutions empower businesses to more accurately predict outcomes, gain real-time insights into business operations, and actively mitigate risks in today’s competitive global climate.
Sybase IQ 15.1 Availability
Sybase IQ 15.1 is generally available. To learn more about Sybase IQ and the additional features and benefits of version 15.1, visit: http://www.sybase.com/iq
To read the Sybase IQ blog, visit: http://blogs.sybase.com/sybaseiq
About Sybase
Celebrating 25 years of innovation, Sybase is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as the performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all systems, networks and devices. For 25 years, our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world’s most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit www.sybase.com and read Sybase blogs.
TPC Result References
1 IBM Power 595 Model 9119-FHA using Sybase IQ Single Application Server Edition v.15.1 ESD #1.2 – 156,537.3 QphH@3000GB, US$20.60/QphH@3000GB, Available as of 11/24/2009.
2 See “Top Ten Non-Clustered TPC-H by Performance, Version 2 Results” available at: http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results.asp?resulttype=noncluster
3 See “Top Ten TPC-H by Performance, Version 2 Results” available at: http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results.asp?resulttype=all&version=2%¤cyID=1
4 See “Top Ten Non-Clustered TPC-H by Price/Performance, Version 2 Results” available at: http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_price_perf_results.asp?resulttype=noncluster
5 See “Top Complete TPC-H Results List – Sorted by Database Vendor, Version 2 Results” available at: http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_results.asp?orderby=dbms
Sybase is a registered trademark of Sybase, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
IBM, IBM Power, POWER6, and IBM Power Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.
TPC, TPC-H, QphH, and $/QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC).
Contact
Sybase, Inc.
Jeff Neal, 925-236-5035
jeff.neal@sybase.com
or
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Source: Sybase
WellStar Health System Selects Kronos
WellStar Health System has selected an integrated suite of workforce management solutions from Kronos® Incorporated to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity
CHELMSFORD, Mass. (December 15, 2009) –
WellStar Health System has selected an integrated suite of workforce management solutions from Kronos® Incorporated to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. The solution will be used to effectively manage more than 11,000 employees across WellStar Health System’s five hospitals in northwest Georgia.
News Facts
* Previously, WellStar used a variety of labor-intensive products and processes for employee scheduling, time and attendance data collection, budgeting, and other decision support functions.
* WellStar’s management team realized the potential for incremental cost savings with an integrated and fully automated solution with applications to support all of its workforce management business processes.
* WellStar selected Kronos employee scheduling, labor analytics, and absence management applications, along with biometric data collection devices. As the Kronos solution operates in real time, WellStar managers will always be working with the most current, high-quality information.
* Anticipated benefits include standardized employee scheduling across all hospitals; better management reporting for more effective decision making; ability to track labor laws and regulations more consistently; and improved overall workforce productivity.
Supporting Quotes
* David Anderson, executive vice president, human resources/OL/COO, WellStar Health System
“Several of our executive team members had experienced the first-hand benefits of Kronos working at other healthcare systems. This made our selection process much easier. We see tremendous cost savings and productivity improvement opportunities with the Kronos workforce management solution.”
* Brian Graves, global practice leader of healthcare, Kronos
“Healthcare organizations are increasingly supplementing time and attendance systems by adding strategic workforce management applications to maximize the benefits of an integrated and automated system. We are very pleased with the fast adoption of our solution by WellStar because of the support of the executive team. We are confident that both management and employees will benefit from our solution.”
Supporting Resources
* About WellStar Health System – The vision of WellStar Health System is to deliver world-class healthcare through its hospitals, physicians, and services. WellStar Health System includes Cobb, Douglas, Kennestone, Paulding and Windy Hill hospitals; WellStar Physicians Group; Urgent Care Centers; Health Place; Homecare; Hospice; Atherton Place; Paulding Nursing Center; and the WellStar Foundation. For more information, call 770-956-STAR or visit www.wellstar.org.
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.
© 2009 Kronos Incorporated. Kronos is a registered trademark of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Source: Kronos