Database Management Systems (DBMS)

The core of all IT services is a scalable and reliable database management system (DBMS) that stores all the information needed to fill your customers and colleagues ever-increasing demands. DBMS come in different flavours since especially in data storage one-size solution doesn’t fit all.

Operational DBMS is the one you use every day: in stores, web services, financial management, collecting customer information i.e running your daily business. These environments have something in common: if the service is not available, within few seconds or minutes your business will be badly hurt. That’s why Sybase flagship DBMS product is designed for 24/7 operations with full capabilities to let you concentrate on your business without having to take headache of technical obstacles. Whether your business needs a database for 5 or 50000 users, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise adapts to your needs. In addition it is platform independent so you can pick your favourite hardware architecture ranging from Microsoft or Linux workstations to Unix servers and even to scalable clustering environments with fault tolerant and high availability extensions. The choice is yours! Sybase DBMS has 20 years of history and thousands of users test it every day in several of the worlds demanding services like financial institutions in Wall Street, world-wide transportation companies, scientific institutions and naturally in World Wide Web.

When the operational data turns to information guiding your business development the DBMS needs to be able to solve different kind of requests. Typically the need is to find from your customer base the most valuable customers or the customers that currently only create costs to you. How is the situation now, what was it two years ago? How is it developing? Or is it? Without specially designed DBMS that holds the historical data there is absolutely no way of developing your business based on facts and you’re only making good guesses. Historical data combined with easy-to-use end-user productivity tools can help you and that’s why Sybase IQ is the DBMS for your data warehouse or data mart applications. Specially designed to analytical questions you don’t even know yet Sybase IQ is lightning fast, easy to maintain DBMS that even stores all your historical data in less space than your operational DBMS. Innovative design and patented indexing structures shorten the response time from days to minutes and from hours to seconds – regardless of what is your current IT infrastructure.

Are you using PDAs or modern mobile phones with email and calendars but not for your real business information? Resource constrained hardware can be used as part of your daily business activities in much broader sense if you just pick the right applications and DBMS for it. Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere is light and extremely easy to use DBMS for your laptops and other mobile devices. Using breakthrough technology the mobile DBMS from Sybase takes only as little as 100 K of memory in your mobile device but you can still keep all your relevant information with you wherever you are. When you want to get all the latest information – just push the button and your mobile device application is synchronised with your business data, let it be ERP, CRM, SCM or whatever acronym your company prefers.

A crucial part of total DBMS solution is the ability to transfer data and connect to any DBMS solution you have. Sybase Open Architecture has roots in the 1980’s when the first DBMS was developed. From the very beginning open connectivity to every DBMS and every application has been the leading development guide to all Sybase products and today we can offer you the most comprehensive solution for data integration. The simplest way is to move or replicate data between heterogeneous database management systems but it also spans to connect your business applications like SAP, Baan or PeopleSoft together.