Mumbai: Sybase (www.sybase.com), the enterprise infrastructure company, has announced a partnership with CMC, India’s premier information technology company, for extending Sybase technology, enterprise products and services to corporate customers in India and within the Asia Pacific region.

The partnership will enable CMC to build IT solutions around the proven enterprise software, technology and business infrastructure capabilities from Sybase. The partnership agreement was signed by CMC deputy managing director and COO R Ramanan and Sybase senior vice-president and general manager (Asia Pacific region) Mark Wang.

Says CMC managing director S S Ghosh: “We are sure that this significant partnership will give CMC and Sybase a synergy of strengths in creating appropriate solutions for medium and large corporate customers, particularly with our focus on offering value-added services in certain core business areas.”

Adds Wang: “This partnership delivers the best of both worlds to our customers — Sybase’s enterprise building products and services and CMC’s system integration and management skills. With this combination, we are pleased to provide customers in India and the Asia Pacific region the best IT solutions that will help them drive their organisations on a high-performance track.”

Sybase achieved significant growth in 2001 with a rate of 26 per cent in India, 37 per cent in China, 14 per cent in Japan, 41 per cent in Korea, 38 per cent in the Philippines, 24 per cent in Thailand and a positive increase in Hong Kong. Sybase products and solutions offer significant value to customers, and the company’s services are highly regarded by the industry across India and the Asia Pacific region.

The company has been delivering IT solutions to enterprises in India since 1989, and presently serves over 2,000 customers in the country. Major customers in India include the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Raymond group, Development Credit Bank, HDFC Bank and IOB.

Sybase is the enterprise infrastructure company that bridges heterogeneous technologies. With industry-leading enterprise portal (EP), mobile and wireless solutions, essential integration products, and high-performance database management systems, Sybase is one of the largest independent software companies in the world. Over 90 per cent of the world’s securities firms and 60 per cent of the world’s banks use Sybase technology.

Founded in 1976, CMC is one of the premier information technology solution providers in India. Operating out of 18 offices and more than 150 service locations in the country, CMC employs over 3,000 people and has a wholly-owned subsidiary in the US called Baton Rouge International.

CMC’s vision is to operate globally and bring the benefit of information technology to improve the productivity of its customers and the quality of its customers’ products and services. CMC combines horizontal expertise in information technology with its vertical experience by working in a wide range of industries.

CMC is now a Tata group company and is poised to offer a wider range of solutions and services with synergy between CMC, Tata Consultancy Services and other IT companies in the Tata group.