Sybase PowerDesigner in Challengers Quadrant in Leading Independent Research Firm's 2009 Enterprise Architecture Magic Quadrant

Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the challengers quadrant in its Magic Quadrant Enterprise Architecture (EA) Tools report, authored by Robert Handler and Chris Wilson (November 2009).

"Today, organizations are increasingly focused on leveraging the power of Enterprise Architecture to improve business-IT alignment. Our customers tell us that PowerDesigner is the EA Tool to clearly visualize and effectively implement fast, reliable and predictable change,” said David Dichmann, senior product manager, Sybase® PowerDesigner®. "We believe our position in Gartner's challengers quadrant is further proof of the market’s adoption of Sybase’s approach. It also provides strong validation of PowerDesigner’s prominent role in empowering customers with the ability to create an enterprise-wide perspective through clear, concise, and accurate metadata synergy from all three views of the organization - business, information and technology.”

PowerDesigner is an industry-leading modeling and metadata management solution for data modeling, information architecture, and enterprise architecture, supporting EA implementations from business planning to deployment with its unique Link and Synch technology. PowerDesigner removes the silos that block the easy flow of knowledge between stakeholders, empowering enterprise architects with true impact analysis, design-time change management, and metadata management techniques.

"Based on PowerDesigner’s new capabilities to support Enterprise Architecture implementations, it comes as no surprise that Gartner is recognizing them in this way,” said Jeff Coleman, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Constellation Energy. "Our 2010 EA implementation plans include PowerDesigner because we have been very impressed with the new EA features that have been implemented starting with version 15.”

To learn more about the 2009 Gartner Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant, Gartner clients may access the report on www.gartner.com. For more information on Sybase PowerDesigner, please visit www.sybase.com/powerdesigner.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Sybase

Celebrating 25 years, Sybase is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world’s most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com.

Sybase and PowerDesigner are registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

Special Note: Statements concerning Sybase's future growth, prospects and new product releases are, by nature, forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks, and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include shifts in customer demand, rapid technology changes, competitive factors and unanticipated delays in scheduled product availability. These and other risks are detailed from time to time in Sybase's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on Sybase's Web site).