Released on: July 13, 2008, 10:48 pm

Press Release Author: Nirmala D\'souza/OAK Consulting

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: The Replication Server is assisting the leading Saudi-based
Hardware Company to ensure high system performance, protect the transactional
integrity of the data, and guarantee transaction recovery.

Press Release Body: Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, July 14, 2008: Sybase Products
Middle East today announced that SACO, the leading hardware company and main dealer
for ACE Hardware in Saudi Arabia, has implemented Sybase Replication Server to
manage and synchronize its data effectively. The implementation of Sybase
Replication Server has helped the company ensure high system performance, protect
the transactional integrity of its data, deliver reliable data to all its branches
and guarantee transaction recovery.

SACO, a pioneer in the hardware retail and wholesale business in Saudi Arabia, is
the largest home improvement superstore in the Kingdom. It is the main dealer for
ACE Hardware in Saudi Arabia and sells more than 45,000 products including hardware,
garden equipment, outdoor products, sports equipment, toys, plumbing, electrical,
automotive, construction to name a few. The company has more that 800 employees
working in 17 branches across the country.

"To keep up with our rapidly growing business, SACO was looking for an effective
disaster recovery solution that would not only ensure data security but also protect
the integrity of each transaction. We needed solution that maintains constant uptime
and manages high-volume database load more efficiently," said Mr. Raed Ayyoub, the
IT Manager of SACO. "Sybase spent significant time with us to understand our
business processes and operations and recommended the Replication Server. Thanks to
Sybase replication, SACO is now able to exchange credit data online, resulting in
country-wide data sharing, management and dissemination, significantly reducing the
risk of data loss or application downtime, and leveraging our investment in our
disaster recovery site," Mr. Ayyoub added.

Sybase Replication Server moves and synchronizes data across multiple databases to
handle challenges such as data replication, data management and heterogeneous
replication while offering the highest level of data management. Sybase Replication
Server maintains replicated data in multiple databases while ensuring the integrity
and consistency of the data. It provides customers using databases in the
replication system with local data access, thereby reducing load on the network and
centralized computer systems.

"Unlike other data replication solutions currently on the market, Replication Server
allows the disaster recovery site database to be leveraged for reporting purposes
while functioning as a warm standby and enhancing an organization's return on
disaster recovery assets. In addition, it offers customers the flexibility to
synchronize data bi-directionally across heterogeneous database platforms including
Sybase ASE, Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server," explained Mr. Adonis Kawal,
Sales Manager at Sybase Products Middle East. "Sybase Replication Server allows
enterprises to achieve business continuity for 'always available' systems, data
migration, data and transaction synchronization between the organization and the
user," he added.

"The implementation was carried out seamlessly in two phases where we upgraded our
existing hardware in phase one and deployed Sybase replication server in phase two.
The whole process took approximately 30 days. The best part was that we did not face
any interruption in production time and there was no interruption in our daily
operations during the deployment of the solution. Sybase Replication Server has been
able to deliver uninterrupted service, data security and is also very easy to manage
and maintain." Mr. Ayyoub concluded.

About Sybase:
Sybase is the largest enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing
and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Sybase
provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime,
anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge. The world's most
critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare runs
on Sybase. With Sybase, customers can optimize and enhance the investments they
already own, link together the valuable data resources already in place, and extend
the reach of business-critical information to users on the front lines-giving them a
financial, agility and productivity edge across all areas of their business.

Sybase is a trademark of Sybase, Inc. ® indicates registration in the United States
of America.



Web Site: http://www.sybase.ae

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OAK Consulting FZC
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