Mission Accomplished! Sybase Highlights Customer Innovation with ASE Special Agent 15 Awards

DUBLIN, Calif., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sybase, Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today presented ASE Special Agent 15 Awards to Eduardo Serikava from Caixa Economica Federal, Grigory Kagan from eSpeed, Inc., and Paul Jackson from Western & Southern Financial Group. The three individuals were honored as part of the "In Search of Special Agent 15: Award Program," which was the culmination of a Sybase(R) "mission" to recognize the drivers of the most original, innovative, and high-impact implementations of the latest version of its enterprise-class relational database management system, Adaptive Server(R) Enterprise (ASE) 15.

"Each of these individuals acted as a 'special agent,' driving technology innovation to improve business processes within the enterprise," said Brian Vink, vice president of product marketing at Sybase. "These customers have taken advantage of new functionality in ASE 15 such as semantic partitioning and the new query processing engine, and as a result, their companies are enjoying significant benefits, including improved database maintenance windows, faster query performance and improved total cost of ownership."

Special Agent ASE 15 Award Winners

SPECIAL AGENT: Eduardo Serikava, Support Supervisor, Caixa Economica Federal

Company: Caixa Economica Federal is based in Brazil and owned by the Brazilian Federal Government. Caixa is one of the largest government-owned financial institutions in Latin America.

Mission -- Partitioning: Caixa wanted to further reduce the time it took for common database administrative tasks. With responsibility for IT infrastructure and monitoring for Caixa, Eduardo Serikava migrated a risk management system from ASE 12.5 to ASE 15. As part of the project, he implemented partitioning in ASE 15 and saw a significant reduction in administrative tasks including an 80 percent improvement in table update statistics, a 95 percent improvement in the time it takes to backup the database and 75 percent faster database recovery time. Caixa also benefited from an increase in system performance including I/O requests that are 10-30 percent faster on ASE 15. As a result, the company has been able to successfully deal with the more than 150 percent growth in data from when the migration began.

SPECIAL AGENT: Grigory Kagan, Database Architect, eSpeed

Company: eSpeed, Inc. is a leader in developing and deploying electronic marketplaces and related trading technology that offers traders access to the most liquid, efficient and neutral financial markets in the world. eSpeed gains a competitive advantage by being able to provide real- time information delivery with the help of ASE 15 and Real-Time Events, a component of the Sybase Data Integration suite.

Mission -- Real-Time Messaging: Grigory Kagan recently led a project to allow changes in data to be proactively pushed to applications and users, giving an enterprise-wide, real-time view of key operational data from multiple data sources. eSpeed implemented ASE 15 with Real-Time Events. The predicted development time was cut in half since Sybase eliminated the need to write custom code to capture events. Message flows are now in thousands per second eliminating delays in trading and back office systems. Additionally, eSpeed was able to bring legacy systems into the mix to provide a more accurate view of business processes.

SPECIAL AGENT: Paul Jackson, System Manager, Western & Southern Financial Group

Company: Western & Southern Financial Group is a Cincinnati-based diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned, managed and under its care in excess of $47 billion. A Fortune 500 company, Western & Southern is leveraging ASE to help fuel its impressive growth.

Mission -- Linux Implementation with Low Total Cost of Ownership: Paul Jackson led a project to migrate his firm's ASE 12.5 database servers on Unix to ASE 15 on Linux while maintaining reliability, increasing performance and reducing costs, and with minimal disruption to development teams. With the migration to ASE 15, Western & Southern saw a significant increase in performance. The company achieved an 80 percent performance improvement in batch cycle times, decreasing the nightly batch cycle by 4 hours; and, was able to reduce the number of servers by 60 percent, providing significant cost savings in hardware and software licensing.

Honorable Mentions

The following Special Agents deserve recognition for driving innovative ASE 15 projects within their companies: Rahid Bawa & Hong Yi, The Bank of Montreal; Geoffrey Greene, The Boeing Company; Kumar Bhartiya, General Re Corporation; and Amelia Vinluan, State Street Bank.

About Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

Sybase ASE has been established as one of the most cost-effective data management platforms for business-critical computing. The latest version, ASE 15, builds on that reputation with key enhancements in data partitioning for managing large databases and encryption technology that is easy to implement and provides data privacy without compromising performance. For more information, please call 1-800-8-SYBASE or visit http://www.sybase.com/ASE.

About Sybase, Inc.

Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Sybase provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers and partners to create an information edge. The world's most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare runs on Sybase. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: http://www.sybase.com/.

Sybase and Adaptive Server Enterprise are registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

Special Note: Statements concerning Sybase's future growth, prospects and new product releases are, by nature, forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks, and cannot be guaranteed. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "will" and similar expressions relating to Sybase and its management may identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are intended to reflect Sybase's current views with respect to future events and may ultimately prove to be incorrect or false. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include shifts in customer demand, rapid technology changes, competitive factors and unanticipated delays in scheduled product availability. These and other 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).

Crystal King Sybase, Inc. (978) 287-1524 kingc@sybase.com Scott Malinowski Citigate Cunningham (617) 374-4223 smalinowski@cunningham.com