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Sybase and MicroStrategy Ink Alliance
May 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Sybase, a provider of enterprise and mobile software, announced that it has entered into a new agreement with MicroStrategy, a supplier of business intelligence software.
Sybase will offer integrated packaging and pricing in an exclusive promotion on MicroStrategy products when sold with its Sybase IQ analytics server.
Through the agreement, customers benefit from integrated packaging, joint product certification, and vendor-to-vendor technical support. In addition, Sybase can now offer MicroStrategy consulting services and education, thereby providing streamlined access to a broad range of combined business intelligence-related services. The two companies have committed to building demonstration solutions showcasing the capabilities of the combined technologies.
"Business intelligence and data warehousing solutions are expected to take on an increasing value in the present economic environment," said Dan Vesset, IDC Program Vice President of Business Analytics. "IDC believes the extension of the alliance between Sybase and MicroStrategy will simplify the acquisition, deployment, and use of the combined solution thus helping customers maximize the value of their BI investments."
The companies stated that The Sybase IQ analytics server is designed specifically to deliver faster results for mission-critical business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW) and reporting solutions. MicroStrategy has built-in optimizations that work seamlessly with Sybase IQ to deliver answers to critical business questions ten to hundreds of times faster at a lower total cost of ownership than traditional row-based databases.
"MicroStrategy's alliance with Sybase has produced solutions that help data management customers maximize the performance and value of their data and business intelligence environments," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. "This agreement provides another example of both MicroStrategy and Sybase's commitment to enhancing the user experience and how the collaboration between our companies continues to benefit our shared customers."
"By extending our relationship with Sybase's preferred BI reporting tools partner MicroStrategy, we are providing our customers who depend on analytics to move their businesses forward with a greatly expanded set of integrated reporting, analytic and dashboarding capabilities at a price point that exceeds customer expectations during these uncertain economic times," said Dr. Raj Nathan, Chief Marketing Officer, Sybase. "The combination of Sybase IQ and MicroStrategy's business intelligence software in one solution will drive down the cost of deploying reporting and analytic solutions, enabling organizations to make better informed business decisions from all their enterprise data to meet and exceed revenue targets and margin goals."
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