Sybase ASE Remains A Strong Enterprise DBMS

Over the past year, Forrester interviewed 65 Sybase customers who use Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE). A majority of these customers rated Sybase ASE as a highly reliable database management system (DBMS) with strong database features, very good technical support, and the ability to meet or exceed their requirements to support mission-critical applications. Sybase remains committed to ASE, focusing on advanced features and innovation, especially in the areas of performance, continuous availability, scalability, security, manageability, and XML. In 2006, Sybase added support for native database-level encryption ahead of Microsoft and IBM, and recently it released a shared-disk clustering solution that is rivaled only by Oracle's Real Application Clusters product. Therefore, enterprise architects and information management professionals who judge Sybase ASE to be a good fit for their requirements can keep it in their infrastructure road maps for the foreseeable future, confident that it remains a strong option among the major enterprise players.