Cisco Presents Software Excellence Award To Sybase

Award Recognizes Sybase’s Commitment to the Success of its Partners

DUBLIN, CALIF. - Sybase, Inc., an SAP company (NYSE: SAP) and an industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced that it has received the 2010 Software Excellence Supplier Award from Cisco. This prestigious award recognizes those software suppliers who engage with Cisco to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.

The distinction was awarded during Cisco’s 19th annual Supplier Appreciation Event, held September 29, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The event celebrated the commitment of Cisco’s preferred suppliers to ongoing customer satisfaction and accelerated growth as demonstrated by their operational excellence.

“Sybase understands that high-quality, leading-edge technology is critical to information management, and they deliver even greater value by embracing the new business models Cisco must embrace to meet customer needs" said Prentis Wilson, vice president, Global Supplier Management, Cisco. "Ultimately, Sybase partners with us proactively to anticipate and deliver for our customers"

Cisco presented awards to suppliers in recognition of their contributions to Cisco’s success in fiscal year 2010. Cisco also reaffirmed the importance of supplier relationships as the company pursues its corporate vision to build the human network and transform the way people live, work, plan and learn.

"The Cisco Software Excellence award is a recognition of our strategy to go beyond just delivering product innovation" said Brian Vink, vice president of Data Management Products, Sybase. "At Sybase we put a lot of focus on the intangibles of an ISV partnership such as collaborating on roadmap, providing unmatched support, and being flexible in all aspects of the relationship"

More than 10 million users have benefited from applications that have been deployed by ISVs who rely on the Sybase® SQL Anywhere® embedded database server to power their business critical systems. SQL Anywhere’s ease-of-use, out-of-the-box performance, and self-management innovations address the evolving requirements of solution providers across many vertical markets. To learn more, visit www.sybase.com/sqlanywhere.

About Sybase
Sybase Inc., an SAP company, 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.

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