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Proven Data Warehousing Solutions from Sybase and Sun Microsystems

To grow your business you need information on your customers, prospects, partners and suppliers. Without transactional, demographic, psychographic and other pertinent data, you can’t hope to compete and be profitable in today’s bare-knuckle, global economy.

You probably already have all or most of the data you need. But storing, managing and providing real-time access to that data across your enterprise can be a real bear. First, it’s expensive. And the scalability, performance and flexibility issues can give you a world-class headache.

Sybase and Sun Microsystems understand the pressures you’re under to deliver faster and easier access to more information while holding the line on the budget. And we’ve developed two solutions to help you succeed.

• iForce Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture – for very large data warehousing
• iForce Solution for Economical Data Management – for small to mid-size organizations

These two real-world tested solutions provide:

• Real-time access to enterprise data
• Query speeds up to 1,000 times faster than anything you’ve seen before
• Reductions in installation and set-up time by as much as 80%
• 75%-90% lower storage requirements
• Dramatically reduced total cost of ownership (TCO)

iForce Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture:

A Clear Path to Success

Real-time business intelligence is increasingly a must-have capability. Corporate and line-of-business executives, marketing and sales managers and other business users expect easy and instant access to mountains of enterprise data. They need it to make the right decisions at the right times to keep the business growing and profitable.

But when you’re dealing with terabytes of data, creating a data warehouse to meet these demands can be a daunting challenge. There are storage issues, performance issues, scalability issues, all of which normally translate into complexity and expense. Plus there’s always the nagging fear that the resulting data warehouse system just won’t do the job.

The iForce Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture integrates tested, proven technology – Sybase’s IQ analytical engine, Sun UltraSPARC servers and StorEdge systems – to help organizations make better informed, business-critical decisions while the overall costs of ownership.

The iForce Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture:

• Requires up to 75% less storage
• Delivers up to 1,000 times the query speed of conventional warehouses
• Slashes installation time by as much as 80%
• Tests to over 48 terabytes of input data
• Supports 1,000s of concurrent users
• Protects your existing technology investments – with open standards

“The big advantage of the Reference Architecture work, done by Sun and Sybase, is that it provides the advance knowledge that this solution will work. It also demonstrates the critical aspects of ease of deployment, performance, scalability, and storage cost economy…The Sybase/Sun Reference Architectures is a real boon to IT managers who are considering solutions for a specific business problem. For us, it has further validated our choice of Sybase IQ running on Sun servers for this project.”

— Kim Ross, Chief Information Officer, Nielsen Media Research

iForce Solution for Economical Data Management

Maybe you’re not a Fortune 500 company. What if your IT budget is considerably more modest? You still need to leverage your enterprise information to identify and seize business opportunities and react to changing market conditions.

The iForce Solution for Economical Data Management was designed for you!

This powerful Sun/Sybase IQ solution:

• Provides enterprise strength data management at PC prices
• Can be implemented in weeks, not months
• Keeps years of detailed transactional data accessible online
• Is simple to manage
• Delivers reports and analysis up to 1,000 times faster than traditional systems
• Scales up to 48 terabytes and increasing user volume as your business grows
• Plugs right into your current Microsoft environment
• Leverages your current operational applications

All at a PC price point! Keeping your TCO low.

"The iForce Solution for Economical Data Management offers a much-needed solution that's both 'good to go' and 'good to grow' for small and mid-market firms. When measured against competing solutions, it offers both a lower entry point and unlimited scalability for firms seeking to manage data for maximum profitability and efficiency."

— Dean Oliver, Chief Operating Officer, NEXL (A Leading IT Consulting Firm and Managed Services Provider

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