SYBASE FORMS INDUSTRY'S LARGEST DATA WAREHOUSE ALLIANCE PROGRAM

Sybase Warehouse WORKS Alliance Program Gains Rapid Acceptance With Over 50
Technology Partners

EMERYVILLE, CA, August 7, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise
Client/Server Company, today announced one of the industry's largest data
warehouse alliances with over 50 data warehouse technology vendors. The
SYBASE Warehouse WORKS Alliance Program offers a broad selection of tools
for customers building client/server data warehouse solutions. Currently,
over 125 best-of-breed tools from Sybase and its partners are integrated
and optimized to work with Warehouse WORKS.

The Sybase Warehouse WORKS Alliance Program is designed to provide a
complete, open, and integrated solution for organizations building and
deploying data warehouse solutions. The program addresses the entire range
of technology requirements for data warehouse development, including data
transformation, data distribution, and interactive data access. The
alliance partners have made commitments to adopt the Warehouse WORKS
architecture and APIs, as well as to work closely with Sybase in marketing
and sales programs.

"Data Warehousing is a high priority for Sybase," said Mike Forster,
president of Sybase's InformationCONNECT Division. "Through our commitment
to an open architecture that promotes industry partnerships, Sybase is
able to provide customers best-of-breed solutions under one framework for
a wide range of data warehouse requirements."

SYBASE Warehouse WORKS is an open framework that provides a single set of
APIs, based on the industry standard Sybase Open Client/Open Server
architecture, for complete, integrated warehousing solutions utilizing
best of breed software components. This integrated solution assures
customers a complete and scaleable set of warehouse solutions for data
transformation, storage, distribution, and access.

SYBASE Warehouse WORKS Alliance Partners

The following chart identifies the Sybase Warehouse WORKS Alliance
Partners:

Access --
  Andyne Computing
  Brio Technology
  Business Objects
  Cognos
  Information Discovery
  Intersolv
  IQ Software
  MITI
  neurOagent
  Open Data Corporation
  Pilot Software
  Recognition Systems
  Trinzic

Assemble/Transformation --
  Apertus
  Carleton
  Cross Access
  db Intellect/EDS
  DB Star
  ETi
  Informatica
  Prism Solutions
  Vality Technology

Modeling --
  Bachman Information Systems
  Computer Systems Advisers
  LogicWorks
  SDP, SA

Multi-Dimensional --
  Arbor Software
  Holistic Systems
  Information Advantage
  Keenan Systems
  Micro Strategy
  Pilot Software
  Prodea Software
  SelectStar
  Sinper Corporation
  Stanford Technology Group

Applications & Development --
  Dun & Bradstreet Information Services
  Dun & Bradstreet Software
  IDD, Information Services
  Powersoft
  SAS Institute
  Sterling Software

Systems Management & Services --
  BMC Software
  Embarcadero Technology
  HP Intelligent Warehouse
  PLATINUM Technology
  Price Waterhouse LLP

Additionally, the SYBASE Warehouse WORKS Alliance Program includes the
following hardware partners: AT&T GIS, Compaq Computer Corp., Digital
Equipment Corp., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Silicon Graphics, Siemens-Nixdorf
Information Systems and Sun Microsystems. Software platforms supported are
Windows NT, OS/2, and Unix. Sybase plans to provide support for Windows 95
through its OpenClient API.

Sybase Warehouse WORKS Alliance Program

Sybase's Warehouse WORKS Alliance Program is focused on building
partnerships with companies providing innovative technologies specifically
developed for the data warehousing market. With Sybase Warehouse WORKS,
customers can select best-of-breed technologies from partners who provide
tools for assembling, transforming, and distributing data, as well as for
accessing data warehouses. These vendors cover a broad range of horizontal
(financial, human resources, customer service, and manufacturing) and
vertical (healthcare, telecommunications, retail, and insurance) market
segments.

Under the Warehouse WORKS Alliance Program, partners receive training on
Sybase software, specialized support to ensure compatibility with Sybase
software, and beta software for a head-start on integrating their
technology with Sybase. Partners are now optimizing their products to work
with SYBASE IQ, Sybase's breakthrough, high-performance interactive query
technology. Now in beta, SYBASE IQ is an optional extension to SYBASE SQL
Server that uses patented bit-wise indexing technology to deliver
breakthrough performance for complex, ad-hoc queries.

"As a leader in the data warehousing market, Sybase has provided rapid and
early access to product and technical support," said Kirk Cruikshank, vice
president of Marketing at Arbor Software. "The Warehouse WORKS Alliance
program brings open integration of best-in-class technologies to the data
warehouse. With Sybase technology and Arbor's Essbase, corporations can
address the full range of query, reporting, planning, and analysis
applications throughout the enterprise."

"As one of the first members of the Sybase Warehouse WORKS Alliance
Program, we are able to ensure seamless integration between
BusinessObjects and the Warehouse WORKS architecture," said Dennis McCann,
president of Business Objects, Inc., Cupertino, Calif. "The synthesis of
our market leading query and reporting product, and Sybase's dedicated
program and technology, ensures that customers will realize the promise of
a powerful data warehousing solution."

"SYBASE IQ is an ideal engine technology for supporting interactive
analysis, the functionality which ProdeaBeacon provides via its 3-tier
OLAP (online analytical processing) architecture," said Tim Harmon, vice
president of marketing at Prodea Software. "Using SYBASE IQ and System 10
with ProdeaBeacon brings high performance to the relational OLAP market,
an essential element for today's client/server data warehouses."

SYBASE IQ

SYBASE IQ, which was delivered to 24 beta customers in July 1995, provides
predictable interactive access to large amounts of data directly in the
warehouse. While offering up to 100-fold query performance improvement
over standard relational databases, SYBASE IQ slashes warehouse query
costs by orders of magnitude, requiring up to 80 percent less disk, up to
98 percent less I/O, and utilizing existing hardware.

Sybase Offers Warehouse WORKS Seminar Series

Sybase offers a free seminar series to give new and existing customers
training on Sybase's data warehouse solution with panels and discussions
from Sybase, its alliance partners, and customers who have developed
real-world data warehouse systems. Over the next two quarters, Sybase will
conduct another 50 data warehouse seminars. For more information on
attending these seminars, customers may call 1-800-SYBASE-1.

SYBASE Warehouse WORKS

SYBASE Warehouse WORKS, announced in November of 1994, is the industry's
first complete and open solution for building client/server data
warehousing solutions. Warehouse WORKS helps customers rapidly build and
cost-effectively deploy interactive warehouse applications which: assemble
data from diverse on-line data sources, transform data to a consistent
business view, distribute and manage data, and provide interactive access
with the broadest choice of industry-standard tools. The Warehouse WORKS
Alliance Program, with over 50 vendors and growing, is currently the
largest collection of integrated solutions for Data Warehousing in the
industry.

For information on joining Sybase's Warehouse WORKS Alliance program,
vendors may contact Tom Barrett, Segment Manager for Channels Development
at Sybase, by calling (510) 922-8534, or e-mail: tom.barrett@sybase.com.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in client/server software. Sybase, and
its wholly owned subsidiary Powersoft Corporation, are focused on four
major market segments: mass deployment, on-line transaction processing,
data warehousing and electronic commerce. Sybase's software products --
database, middleware and tools -- provide customers with desktop to
enterprise solutions. The company's mission is to provide its customers
with an open, adaptable information systems architecture that enables them
to develop and deliver complete information systems solutions to
facilitate rapid business change. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase
is the sixth largest independent software company in the world..

Sybase Inc
6475 Christie Ave
Emeryville, CA 04608
510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441
 
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