Sybase Wins Prestigious Waters Rankings Awards for Consecutive Years

DUBLIN, Calif., July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sybase, Inc., an SAP company (NYSE: SAP) and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced that the readers of WatersTechnology voted the company "Best Complex Event Processing (CEP) Solution Provider" and "Best Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Systems Provider." Sybase received the highest percentage of readers' votes, winning the CEP category for a second year and the EDM category for the fourth year in a row.

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The announcement was part of the 2011 Waters Rankings, a widely respected industry award based on a polling of qualified readers of Incisive Media's WatersTechnology, a financial IT publication with a circulation of over 10,100.  

"It is truly an honor to be recognized by WatersTechnology's readers as a leading provider of CEP and EDM solutions," said Eric Johnson, senior vice president and GM, Financial Services Industry, Sybase. "Winning in both these categories for consecutive years is testament to Sybase's focus on maintaining and delivering a world-class and innovative product portfolio – including Sybase ESP, Sybase RAP, as well as Sybase IQ. It also demonstrates our ongoing commitment to consistently meet the demanding high-performance standards of today's capital markets firms."

The first of Sybase's winning categories was CEP for the second year in a row. Sybase ESP, a significant new version of the award-winning Sybase® Aleri CEP platform, empowers customers to deliver real-time applications such as continuous risk assessment, extremely low latency and algorithmic trading solutions, and the enrichment and deep analysis of big market data, in a fraction of the time that traditional approaches would require.

Sybase RAP – The Trading Edition brought home the EDM honors for the fourth year in a row. The system meets challenges created by the explosive volumes of market data consumed by financial services firms.  Sybase RAP logically processes and stores decades worth of market data to support highly effective risk analysis, trading strategy development and execution.

Winners of the Waters Rankings 2011 awards were formally presented with their awards last night at a reception held at the Empire Room in Manhattan's Empire State Building. The winners and event highlights are featured at: www.waterstechnology.com/waters/competition/2045662/2011-waters-rankings-polling

For more information on Sybase's Capital Markets industry solutions, visit: www.sybase.com/capitalmarkets, read http://blogs.sybase.com/tradingandrisk, or follow us on Twitter at @SybaseFSI. Also, Sybase recently released its second annual Sybase Capital Markets Guide 2011, a compilation of insightful and practical articles authored by Sybase executives, partners, academics, and industry analysts. The guide examines ways in which capital markets firms can seize new opportunities and thrive in new markets and under an evolving regulatory regime.

About WatersTechnology

Each month, Waters reports and analyzes the business reasons for and practical implementation of financial technology in the capital markets and securities industry. Since its launch in 1993, securities industry professionals worldwide have relied on the magazine for its focused, in-depth coverage surrounding the confluence of business and technology in market data, trading and risk technology and infrastructure as well as the human issues of talent management, staff retention and compensation within the financial services community. With more than 10,100 subscribers around the world*, Waters' readers enjoy the insights of CIOs and CTOs from the global markets. The magazine also releases the electronic newsletter Waters News each Tuesday to more than 14,000 industry professionals and it sponsors conferences in New York, London, and Singapore. Waters also hosts briefings, and training courses in many of the world's financial centers. For more information, visit www.watersonline.com.

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.

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