Dear all
Please find below the key points from the webcast "Speaking with One
Voice", including positioning statement, value proposition and some good
responses to 5 frequently asked questions.
The full presentation can be found on the EFRC in the next few days.
Regards, Hazel
Sybase Positioning
Sybase is the enterprise infrastructure company that bridges heterogeneous
technologies. We make everything work together. Sybase database,
integration, and tools expertise enable you to bring together all the
disparate data and business applications running in your enterprise and
extend them to any location worldwide.
Value Proposition
With Sybase software, you can be assured that everything will work
together, preserving investments, avoiding proprietary traps, and
improving efficiency.
What does Sybase do?
Sybase is a global provider of enterprise infrastructure software
Sybase helps align and make different technologies work together to
provide business-critical information anywhere and at any time
Sybase product breadth includes databases and development tools,
application servers and integration middleware, and user access
technologies like enterprise portals and mobile databases
Is Sybase still in the database business?
Sybase continues to make major investments in our flagship database,
Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
ASE is the dominant database used on Wall Street, where one out
of
every two stock trades is executed on a Sybase platform and
ASE is gaining ground in emerging markets like China, where it
has a
45% share of the telecommunications market.
Sybase's mobile database, Adaptive Server Anywhere dominates that
market, with a 68% share
There's also Adaptive Server IQ for data warehousing. Adaptive Server IQ
works with Sun Microsystems and together we recently announced the
world's largest database deployment
But Sybase seems to have small market share. What makes you think you can
compete with behemoths like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM?
Where Sybase chooses to play, we do exceptionally well
Our strategy is to go deeper in markets where we are already strong
vertical markets such as financial services, where we have a
dominant
58% share of Wall Street
mobile/wireless, where we have a dominant 68% share of mobile
databases
e-business integration where our enterprise portal has been
categorized as a leader in Gartner Group's magic quadrant
What is Sybase's Web services strategy?
Sybase has a comprehensive Web services framework that lets you do
anything you want with web services from developing new web services to
accessing existing web services
Sybase's comprehensive framework works with more application components
that any other web services provider
Components include EJBs, Java, .Net, XML, Database Stored
Procedures,
Mobile Message Services, CICS applications, as well as ERP
adaptors to
Siebel, Peoplesoft, and SAP
How do iAnywhere and Financial Fusion fit into the picture?
iAnywhere and Financial Fusion are Sybase subsidiaries.
Each subsidiary was created to focus on the needs of specific markets
and each builds on Sybase expertise in making everything work together.
iAnywhere is is the market-leading provider of mobile and
wireless
solutions that enable anywhere, anytime access to enterprise
information and applications.
Financial Fusion that helps financial organizations unify and
control
complex infrastructures.
Focus on content
Listen carefully; answer the question asked
Tell the truth and be sure of the facts
Say you don't know when you don't know
Adapt to your audience
Keep answers brief and simple
Adjust language and examples for the audience
Expect people not to "get it" right away