Software by Design Announces Partnership with Sybase, Inc., focused on Business Intelligence and Analytics

White Plains, NY — (April 10, 2009) — Software by Design, Inc., a successful business intelligence consulting company found in 1999 in White Plains, NY, has announced a new partnership with Sybase, Inc (NYSE: SY), a world-leading enterprise software company based in Dublin, CA. The foundation of this new partnership is Sybase IQ, a highly optimized analytics server designed specifically to deliver faster results for mission-critical business intelligence, data warehouse and reporting solutions, and which can be deployed on all standard hardware and operating systems.

Sybase IQ represents the most mature & feature-rich column-oriented analytics offering in the marketplace today, and it indisputably enjoys the worldwide leading position in this highly competitive arena. With today's enterprises facing constrained IT budgets, smart corporate decision-making relies more heavily than ever upon the ability to support sophisticated, real-time analytics on large volumes of data, without sacrificing profit margins. By coupling Software by Design’s proven solution delivery track record and Sybase IQ’s WW market-leading position as the analytics server of choice, this partnership provides their joint customers of assured success in meeting these challenging business requirements.

“Through our Sybase partnership, we will be able to help clients enjoy dramatically faster analytics and queries from their Business Intelligence systems.” says Martin Carrillo, CEO at Software by Design. “Sybase IQ has a proven track record of dramatically accelerating query response times, substantially compressing data storage requirements, and also clearly improving data load times in marked fashion. Bringing these types of innovative approaches to our clients is specifically what Software by Design has built its success on”.

Jay Foreman, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Sybase North America said, “ Given Software by Design’s excellent reputation as a successful Business Intelligence consulting company, we welcome them to the Sybase family of partners. It is also a vote of confidence in Sybase IQ and its market leadership in business intelligence and data warehouse solutions. We are very excited to be working with Software by Design on behalf of our customers.”

For further information about Sybase IQ, please visit: www.Sybase.com/bi. For more information about Software by Design please visit: www.softwarebydesign.net. Further, Sybase and Software by Design will provide a joint technology overview via webinar. Readers are invited to learn more and register at info@softwarebydesign.net.