Sybase subsidiary tops mobile DBMS market for sixth year
By Our Convergence Bureau | 20 Jan 2003
Mumbai: iAnywhere Solutions (www.ianywhere.com), a subsidiary of Sybase, has announced that it leads the mobile database market for the sixth year in a row.
The company's SQL Anywhere Studio powers mobile, remote, embedded and workgroup database solutions across a range of industries including field service, transportation, retail, utilities, financial services, healthcare and government.
Mobile DBMS giant Sybase was able to increase its share of the market from 68 per cent in 2000 to 73 per cent in 2001. As the market for mobile data solutions gathers momentum in India and the global economy improves, the mobile DBMS market is expected to pick up fairly rapidly.
Gartner is predicting a global compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 16 per cent through 2006. This will cause the market to more than double, from slightly under $70 million in 2001 to around $150 million in 2006, according to a report 'Mobile DBMS Software: In a Short-Term Stall,' (Colleen Graham; 16 December 2002).
“We are proud to be recognised as the long-standing mobile database market leader,“ says Mark Wang, senior vice-president and general manager, Asia Pacific, Sybase. “With more than 10 years experience, iAnywhere Solutions has built a strong base of over seven million deployed seats of our technology. Also key to our success are our strong relationships with the seven hundred application partners who embed SQL Anywhere Studio within their solutions.“
SQL Anywhere Studio is the market-leading data management and enterprise synchronisation solution for mobile, remote, embedded and workgroup environments. SQL Anywhere Studio enables the rapid development and deployment of distributed e-business solutions — extending the reach of enterprise information to anywhere business transactions occur.
iAnywhere Solutions is the market-leading provider of mobile, remote, embedded and workgroup databases and mobile middleware solutions that enable anywhere, anytime access to enterprise information. There are more than seven million seats of iAnywhere Solutions technology at work in over 10,000 customer sites worldwide. iAnywhere Solutions is a subsidiary of Sybase.
Sybase pioneers software that integrates platforms, databases and applications. Sybase solutions create information liquidity — transforming data into economic value. With Sybase, companies can attain maximum value from their data assets by getting the right information to the right people at the right time.