Customer and Analyst Testimonials

Faster Time-to-Benefit

"From October to December we achieved the complete implementation of our data warehouse infrastructure, complete with scalability to support our future needs. This was probably one of the fastest data warehousing implementations in history."
Scott Wyld, IT Project Manager, Allianz Australia Insurance Limited

"Our success is directly due to the support we received from Sybase and the quick and easy implementation. As a result, this architecture is presented as a model for other divisions and agencies for data warehousing."
Samuel Foster, President, FosterSoft

Less Tuning Required

"Sybase IQ is very easy to administer online. The system administers itself. I only spend 4-5 hours a week to maintain close to half a terabyte of data. I make sure systems are up and the actual data is loaded. I rarely need to do anything more difficult. Database administration with Sybase IQ is very simple."
Simon Falconer, DBA, TelstraClear

Dramatically Faster Query Performance

"Sybase IQ reduced loading and indexing from 30 minute to 2.5-3.0 minutes. Query speeds were 20 to 50 times faster than Oracle. Time to add a column was reduced from 4 hours with Oracle to 15 minutes with Sybase IQ."
Jeff Butler, Director Office of Statistical Computing, Dept. of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics

"With Sybase IQ, queries that took three to four hours are now taking three to four minutes. We see Sybase IQ as something of a miracle." -Lucien Costa, Manager of Enterprise Information Systems and Data Warehousing Vodafone, Portugal "For the processing cycle, it wasn't uncommon to have backlogs at the end of the day that might take a week or more to clear out. Since we moved to Sybase IQ, we've had zero backlogs. Our tabulations are almost instantaneous."
Jerry MacGillivray, Statistics Canada

"When the selection was down to two products, IBM's UDB and Sybase IQ, we conducted tests on both. We selected Sybase IQ because it provided faster query results, reduced data storage requirements, and gave lab performance results that were sometimes 10 times as good as the competitor."
Alpaslan Ozlu, General Manager of Technology Management, Yapi Kredi Bank

"The results show that Sybase IQ is extremely capable of managing data warehouses containing multiple terabytes of data, which in the end, significantly benefits it customers by saving them time and money."
Richard Winter, President Winter Corporation, Industry Leading Analyst in VLDB and Scalability

Scalable to the Largest Databases

"This data warehouse is by far one of the largest I've ever seen and it's going to grow considerably every year. I am confident the hardware and technology [Sybase IQ] we have selected will be able to keep up with our demands as we grow it to the 30-terabyte level."
Timothy S. Geary, Data Resource Manager Information Technology, National Product Group, Nielsen Media Research

Requires Significantly Less Storage

"The model saved between four and six times the storage volume required compared to other RDBMSs available on the market, with the attendant reduction in hardware, support, administration, and maintenance costs."
Pedro Romera, Systems Engineering Manager, Telefonica

"We are able to deliver one data warehouse for all of our applications at one-third the storage of conventional technologies, while seeing performance gains as advertised with Sybase IQ."
Kim Ross, CIO, Nielsen Media Research

Saving Millions Each Year

"We originally projected that Sybase IQ would save us about $150K per year. But over the past five years, it has saved us about $5 million by helping us identify forms of fraud we never knew existed, by giving us the ability to implement appropriate measures to eliminate the causes."
John Hagen, Senior Systems Analyst and Project Manager, American Airlines

Architected for Query Performance

"Because Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database it takes up much less space than a conventional database holding the same amount of data. Regular readers will know that I am a fan of column-based databases in general and Sybase IQ in particular, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. These [Winter Top Ten] results appear to prove it."

"Managers used to the performance and hardware requirements of conventional data warehouses will often find it difficult to believe the performance claims that Sybase can justifiably make. Managers who are used to queries taking 24 hours or more to run will find it difficult to believe that these queries now can be run in a matter of minutes using Sybase IQ. IT Managers should be ready to fall off their chairs."
Philip Howard, Industry Analyst, Bloor Research