PowerBuilder News Desk

PowerBuilderTV Celebrates Two Years of Webinars

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:08:00 EST

With a varied range of subjects from Taking PowerBuilder to the Cloud, to Adding Single Sign-On to PowerBuilder Applications, we have been working to keep the community up-to-date on PowerBuilder tips and tools. As our two year anniversary approaches, we’d like to share with you a little insight into how things are going so far. We’ve had great contributions from the PowerBuilder community including some prominent community members such as Dave Fish and John Strano, among many others, and so it’s no surprise that PBTV has had more than 5 000 registrations in 2011. Over the past two years, PBTV has worked to make information on PowerBuilder more accessible to a growing and increasingly diverse audience, with broadcasts in three different languages: English, Spanish and French.

The Mobile Business Object... Your Mobile Way Forward

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:15:00 EST

As you probably know the Mobile Business Object (MBO) is at the heart of Sybase's UnWired Platform, which is a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform used in turn as part of the SAP Mobility Platform. Once defined the MBO can be used in Native (such as iOS) as well as Hybrid Web Container Applications. It can be described in four points. Defines the data you want to use from your backend system and exposes it to be used for your mobile application /workflow. Created using our simple, graphical tooling inside the Eclipse development environment. Re-usable, allowing you to leverage across multiple device types. Future proofing of your application, when new device types are added your same MBO can be used.

Sybase Celebrates 20-Year PowerBuilder Milestone

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:45:00 EDT

Sybase, Inc., on Monday announced the availability of Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5, the second .NET release of Sybase's award-winning rapid application development tool. PowerBuilder 12.5 empowers developers with the easiest, fastest and most cost-effective solution for creating modern and visually appealing business applications on the Microsoft Windows 32 ((Win32)and .NET Frameworks. Today's announcement was made at Sybase TechWave, collocated with SAP TechEd 2011 and being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from September 12-16. "Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine heavy database orientation with a highly productive graphical user interface (GUI)," said Al Hilwa, program director for IDC's Application Development Software research. "The direction that PowerBuilder has taken to become a seamless Windows .NET environment with the Visual Studio shell incorporated into its infrastructure has meant that the product can now be considered equally for evolving existing systems and for developing new ones for traditional Windows 32 environments and for .NET."

Join the Wolf Pack in Vegas Baby!

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:00:00 EDT

Sybase TechWave is back in Vegas Baby!.. The glowing light in the hot Mojave Desert, Las Vegas, is this week the location for the hottest & brightest technologies in the IT industry… presented by Sybase & SAP. For me I have been involved in the preparation and planning of the Mobility Track which is key to Sybase's 'Enterprise UnWired' vision, but there are more... TechWave features four conference tracks: Data Management, Application Development Tools, Analytics, and Enterprise Mobility. Products covered include Sybase ASE, Replication Server, SQL Anywhere, Sybase Control Center, Sybase IQ, PowerBuilder, PowerDesigner, Sybase RAP, Sybase ESP, Afaria, and Sybase Unwired Platform. Some products may be represented in multiple tracks. Each track will open with a Plenary Session on Tuesday morning, immediately following the SAP TechEd General Session. These special sessions provide a high-level overview of the products and topics that will be covered in the breakout sessions.

The Age of the Enterprise App Store Is Here

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:00:00 EDT

The advent of BYOD (bring your own device) culture to the Enterprise has ushered about the “app culture” faster for IT departments than expected. Analysts agree that key to IT’s future in mobilizing today’s workforce lies with mobile device management and the move toward an Enterprise App Store model that parallels the experience consumers find today via Apple and the Android Marketplace. Prosumers (professional consumers) expect the wealth & breath of applications within the Enterprise as well as outside. Having an Enterprise App Store allows the Information Worker to see what their company suggests is a productive app for their use, which is outside of their internal developments... as well as a way of providing in-house written apps, in a manner which is natural to their Prosumer employees. This is something that SAP and Sybase believe in completely and are already working on such models.

Predicting Mobility Trends

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:00:00 EDT

Just over a month ago I spoke to a few colleagues on the subject of Enterprise Mobility and I went into my Evangelistic mode proclaiming that... "Mobility in business is now the norm and that any company that is not looking at mobilizing their workforce and creating Mobile Information Workers, will be left in the starting blocks, where as others sprint away allowing proactive business processes and access to core information anytime anywhere". Then out of the blue one colleague asked me what my predictions would be in the area of Mobility for the next three years. I immediately started to chuckle and said that it would be hard enough to predict the next 12-18 months, but after I stopped laughing I started to brainstorm my thoughts and predictions for the next 12-18 months ahead.

Dutch-Bangla Bank Selects Sybase 365 for Mobile Banking in Bangladesh

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:15:00 EDT

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., on Monday announced it has been selected by Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL), one of Bangladesh’s largest banks, for its mobile banking platform. “Sybase 365’s platform allows us to deliver the best possible mobile banking services to our customers,” said Abul Kashem Md. Shirin, Deputy Managing Director, DBBL. “Bank-led mobile banking is the standard worldwide and we hope that efforts to pioneer mBanking will propel other banks to adopt similar services and accelerate the process of financial inclusion in other developing markets.” There are around 160 million people in Bangladesh, of which, only 13 per cent have bank accounts. By using Sybase 365 mBanking platform, DBBL can now reach the rural and unbanked population, of which 45 per cent are mobile phone users. With capabilities to conduct local and international money remittance, Bangladeshi expatriates will also be able to easily remit money to the mobile accounts of their families, who can then make a withdrawal at the nearest retailer or cash point. The service will be available on all mobile devices with subscription to any of the six mobile operators of Bangladesh.

Coverage of Sybase Announcements

Fri, 20 May 2011 08:44:00 EDT

We are now at the end of SAP's global SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference, in Orlando (May 15 - 18) and there have been some interesting announcements and information coming out, with regard to Sybase & SAP. So if you have not been able to keep up with the coverage, I have produced a summary below...SAP and Sybase Boost Mobile Worker Productivity in Key Industries with Release of New Real-Time Enterprise Mobility Apps, SAP and Sybase Step Closer to Reaching 1 Billion People With Release of Next-Generation Sybase® Unwired Platform, SAP and Sybase Unveil Plans for Combined ERP, Data Management Solution, Accenture and SAP Announce Strategic Relationship to Develop and Deploy New Mobility Solutions

Mobile Enterprise Summit Fireside Chat with Dr Raj Nathan of Sybase

Tue, 17 May 2011 10:04:12 EDT

At the recent Mobile Enterprise Summit on April 26 in San Francisco, there was a Fireside Chat titled “Create Your Apportunity”, with Dr Raj Nathan of Sybase and JP Finnell of GigaOM Pro. I have been in attendance at a few of these 'fireside' chats with Raj, both internal to Sybase and those open to conference attendees at external events, and I always find them fascinating as well as a great way to get up to date with some serious industry Thought Leadership! Now its your chance to, find out...

PowerBuilder .NET Migration & XAML Workshop in Tel Aviv

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:30:00 EDT

I've been on the road in North America a lot lately delivering one day .NET overview and migration seminars in cooperation with ISUG. Last week I had a special treat. I traveled to Tel Aviv Israel to deliver an extended two day version of my seminar. My local sponsor was NessPro, Ness Technologies, the official Sybase distributor in Israel. Nestor Cohen, Development Solutions Manager was my local partner. Nestor really knows the local PowerBuilder community. According to Nestor, there are about 250 PowerBuilder developers in the country. PowerBuilder applications support business processes in many sectors of the Israel's flourishing economy including, military, government, telecom, and health care. Twenty developers turned out for the two day event which was held in Ness University, a state of the art training facility. I used this event to roll out pieces of my new Mastering Essential WPF / XAML with PowerBuilder .NET course. We did lots of hands on coding and there were many, many great questions as these bright top shelf developers got engaged in mastering .NET basics. To my pleasant surprise, several of the shops present were already engaged in test migrating some of their applications. They came armed with lots of real world questions and situations.

Testing the iOS Application

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:00:00 EST

In the 7th and penultimate article of my Sybase UnWired Platform Series developing against iOS, we have created the app and now need to iteratively test. Testing the iOS/SUP application uses a combination of Apple's Xcode Environment, the SUP Control Center and the Logs generated by the Unwired Server. Below is a screen shot of the SUP Control Center web console. This is where we need to register a user against the Unwired Server, including an activation code, before we run the iOS client that has been written.

Will Apple Make the M-Wallet a Reality?

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:05:00 EST

Lately there has been a lot of rumor on the web about the iPhone 5, or whatever it will be called... 4GS? Also today we have the announcement of the iPad 2. One thing that most iSpeculators and Technical iBloggers seem to agree on, with regard to the iPhone 5, along with more internal memory for running of programs and a faster processor, is the use of NFC (Near Field Communication). Yes still speculation until the time the next iPhone will be announced, which will probably be in June at Apple's WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference), but worth talking about in advance. I am also wondering if we will see NFC in the iPad 2 or will Apple wait until a later rev?

Jim O'Neil on PowerBuilder and the Cloud

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:00:20 EST

Filmed by yours truly live at the Connecticut PowerBuilder User Group meeting February 2011. This was a great presentation by the master Jim O'Neil. We were all thoroughly engaged in the content and learned a lot. I'm sure you will too.

Objective-C Object Wrapper Creation

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:11:00 EST

We are in the 5th article in my series of 8, covering the creation of an Enterprise iOS application using the Sybase Unwired Platform, with the ability to synchronize data. By now you should know that for the Sybase Unwired Platform, Mobile Business Objects (MBOs) are the encapsulation of the business process logic and data into a reusable unit that can be accessed from a variety of clients. Developers can bundle MBOs and generate the device application code required for an advanced developer to develop device applications for mobile devices in the Native SDK required and that for this example is Objective-C. The process to create the Object-API is to use the Code Generation Wizard, within the Unwired Tooling, to package the MBOs that you want to access, and generate metadata and other artifacts required for a Objective-C, Java or C# developer to create device applications using the development environment most familiar to them. In the case of iSurvey the environment being Apple's Xcode

Cloud Expo, Inc. Announces Cloud Expo 2011 New York Venue

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:45:00 EST

Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong. Over 600 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, 10-folds more than all other Cloud-related events put together.

Sybase CTO to Present The Race Towards Zero at Cloud Expo 2011 New York

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:00 EST

A number of verticals, particularly Financial Services, are moving towards a zero latency environment, where the reduction of time between decision and action is critical. For example, high-frequency trading is a computerized transaction that takes advantage of the millisecond gap between events and their impacts on global financial markets. As machines trade with and against each other, the race to zero latency is more intense than ever. Even organizations outside of the financial services industry need immediate access to information to make competitive business decisions. In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Irfan Khan, CTO of Sybase, will discuss current approaches reducing latency and expand your knowledge on how to exploit this technology to your advantage.

PB12.NET Training Day

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:30:00 EST

The International Sybase User Group in conjunction with eLearnIt Systems is now offering a new one day PowerBuilder 12.NET training course. In this a full day of training where you will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare you to plan, perform a .NET migration and tips on re-factoring your enterprise level based PowerBuilder Classic applications.

Enterprise Mobility in the Capital of the European Union

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:45:00 EST

The financial and economic crisis has just about hit rock bottom, so the time has come to start the climb back up and for early adopters of new technologies, the future is looking brighter than ever before. The leaders of tomorrow's economy are those who have access to up-to-date information and powerful analytical tools, leading them to take better business decisions, with a higher ROI and a smaller ecological footprint. Sybase already leads the industry in delivering enterprise software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. Who better to turn to than Sybase when crucial decisions have to be made about the future. On November 24th at Sybase TechSerie, the 100+ attendees had the opportunity to acquaint themselves with our solutions that can provide the basis for their future business success.

What Will Happen to the Corporate Developer in 2011?

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:41:33 EST

I thank my lucky stars every day that I am part of an industry that is able to push the limits and is always evolving. Years ago I started my career with COBOL on MVS370 mainframes, then on to PowerBuilder in the age of Client Server, further into Java with Application Servers and now in the world of Mobile Technologies. Over the last few months I have been traveling to many countries and have had the occasion to speak to many Corporate Developers. During the course of those travels it became apparent to me that the majority of the attendees at those events, thought that the technical and business 'hurdles' for Enterprise Mobility adoption, were now mostly gone. Now even more companies are realising that mobile applications will give their Information Workers the benefit of having the data and access where they want it and when they want it. This in turn will make them more productive and proactive, which can only lead to a competitive edge.

PowerObjectParm and System.Object Types

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:34:00 EST

I was working on a POC app that integrates a .NET assembly with a PowerBuilder 12.1 WPF app when I ran across this issue. Most anyone doing any assembly integration will discover the same thing. In order to save you some time and bother I’m writing my findings and suggesting a couple of workarounds here. Background One on the key changes to the PowerScript class hierarchy was the insertion of System.Object as the ancestor of PowerObject. Object is now the grand ancestor of all PowerScript Classes. Figure 1 shows that PowerObject now has System.Object members.

Upcoming PowerBuilder Events in the United States

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:06:00 EST

Join John Strano for a look at the new features and functionality of PowerBuilder 12. Network with y

Upcoming PowerBuilder Events in Europe #fb

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:50:00 EDT

Dave Fish will be presenting at both of the following user group events: 11/11 Prague, Czech Republ

PowerBuilder in Asia Pacific

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:59:41 EDT

The state of PowerBuilder developers and application development in Asia Pacific. Whenever traveling to a new venue, I concern myself with learning about the state local PowerBuilder community while promoting PowerBuilder .NET, eLearnIT's free .NET training resources hosted on Sybase.com and eLearnIT's online PowerBuilder Classic courses offer through ISUG. This week, personal affairs brought me to Hong Kong, China, a bustling oriental city. While there I had the distinct pleasure of meeting with Young Wong, Manager and Technical Evangelist whose responsibilities include the PowerBuilder product line. Young's territory includes the Philippines, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Singapore and extends southward to Australia and New Zealand.

Sybase at SAP TechEd Berlin

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:00:00 EDT

SAP TechEd is a new environment for Sybase, with the possibility of many or most attendees not having much experience with Sybase products, or perhaps not even having heard of Sybase, beyond the acquisition announcements. It was pleasing to see "Sybase technology" prominently mentioned as one of the highlights of the conference at the top of page #1 of the conference agenda booklet. Sybase had continued exposure during the big-hall opening session... In the pre-keynote, some metrics were shown about TechEd, including 4000 attendees in Berlin; 15000 over the joint 4 TechEd locations and '17 Sybase sessions' were highlighted, which put Sybase in the spotlight from the start.

Philadelphia Sybase User Group Meeting

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:45:00 EDT

The inaugural meeting of the Philadelphia User Group will be held at the Philadelphia Building on Walnut Street on September 28, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Yakov Werde, President of eLearnIT LLC, will be the featured speaker and will be discussing Migrating from PowerBuilder Classic to PowerBuilder 12 .NET WPF. In this presentation, Yakov will be showing an end-to-end migration with examples and demonstrations. This presentation will show you how to plan for: Your own application migration by getting an overview of the .NET migration process; Refactoring your code to lessen the impact of not supported features Performance differences between the platforms might impact your existing code; GUI differences differences between the platforms might impact your code

Bite-Sized Mobility Tweets

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:27:06 EDT

As you know, if you have read my bio, I am one of the Sybase Technical Evangelists, but what does this role entail? Regularly I addresses technical audiences all over the world, write education classes, whitepapers, demos and articles for various Sybase products and publish regularly in Journals. Over the last few years my Ulitzer website has been getting a strong number of page views...

Sybase New York City PowerBuilder User Group Meeting

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:10:00 EDT

The next meeting of the New York City PowerBuilder User Group will be held at the Sybase office in midtown on September 21. Yakov Werde will be the featured speaker and will be discussing Migrating from PowerBuilder Classic to PowerBuilder 12 .NET WPF. In this presentation, Yakov will be showing an end-to-end migration with examples and demonstrations.

International Sybase User Group Meetings

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:44:00 EDT

At the upcoming Sybase Northwest User Group Meetings, join John Strano of Sybase as he presents an introduction to and an overview of PowerBuilder 12. "Included in this presentation will be a guided tour of the new PowerBuilder .NET IDE and a primer on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Learn how you can take your applications to .NET and extend their capability with the .NET Framework and 3rd party controls. Also get up to date information about the PowerBuilder road map."

Countdown to TechWave... TW minus 1

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EDT

TechWave 2010 is now in the bag, quite literally as today the attendees register and pick up their TechWave rucksacks. Most of us Sybase Employees, are now camped in Washington DC and everything is ready. If there presenters are not here already they will be soon, as today is the Welcome Reception, where we can personally meet and greet old and new friends alike. Any rehearsals for the Keynotes and Plenaries on Day #1 have taken place by now and we are ready to answer questions in our presentations, as well as showing you some new great Sybase technologies.

Countdown to TechWave... TW minus 2

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EDT

We have some outstanding Sponsors, check them out at http://www.sybase.com/techwave?htab=Sponsors TechWave Tip… Make notes, though presentations will be made available, you may get some golden nuggets of information verbally. You may also wish to ask the presenter face to face questions in the Q&A section, at the end of their presentations. If you are shy, our presenters are happy to take questions after the session if time allows, or via email.

Countdown to TechWave... TW minus 3

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:14:49 EDT

The Analytics Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations on IQ, RAP & CEP. Come to the Analytics Technical track to hear about ways to improve your business performance, make faster, more informed decisions, and deliver the results you need with Sybase’s leading real-time analytics platform. Products covered include Sybase IQ, Sybase RAP, Sybase Aleri CEP and Sybase PowerDesigner. These analytical solutions give you the mission-critical business intelligence required to increase business productivity, maximize data assets for yourself and your customers, and make informed decisions quickly.

Countdown to TechWave... TW minus 4

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:55:31 EDT

The Application Development Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations covering key features of PowerBuilder as well as a glimpse into the PB crystal ball. My colleges, John Strano and Dave Fish (as well as others), will be at hand to lead you through some fascinating presentations and information. Check out this small video...

SAP AG Completes Its Acquisition of Sybase

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EDT

SAP AG has announced the completion of its acquisition of Sybase, a partner and a market leader in managing, analyzing, and mobilizing business information. Through this transaction, SAP intends to accelerate the reach of SAP solutions across mobile platforms and drive forward the realization of SAP's in-memory computing vision.

Countdown to TechWave... TW minus 5

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:37:39 EDT

The Enterprise Mobility Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations. You have probably already heard of the Sybase Mobility Platform and maybe more specifically the Sybase UnWired Platform, but during day #2 to day #3, you will get to see and understand our mobile technology stack a lot closer up and hear from our experts, how we can aid your development in the Mobile World. Check out these small videos...

Countdown to TechWave... TW minus 6

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:40:14 EDT

The Data Management Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations. The explosion of data is never ending and Sybase will continue to be there for you, to store and interrogate your information in ASE and IQ, as well as replicating it with Rep Server. We also have presentations on Configuration & Troubleshooting Techniques. Check out these small videos...

Countdown to TechWave... TW minus 7

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:20:24 EDT

We are now only a week away from Sybase TechWave, which will take place in Washington DC on August 9-11. The presenters are putting the final polish to their presentations and are really looking forward to getting face time with all the attendees. I hope that is going to be you! As a presenter at TechWave for over 10 years, I can not overstate how this event is a two way door… It is your chance to get information from our key Personnel, be they Management or Engineers, and our chance to listen to you at first hand.

ISUG and eLearnIT Announce First e-Course Offering for Sybase ASE DBAs

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:15:00 EDT

The International Sybase User Group, a trade association representing more than six thousand members in more than sixty countries around the globe, has announced the immediate availability of its latest course offering in conjunction with online training specialist eLearnIT LLC. The new course is entitled “ASE Performance & Tuning with MDA Tables” and has been strategically planned to offer a pragmatic combination of both practical and theory-based skills for Sybase DBAs. With today’s data center management demands becoming increasing time critical as well as mission critical, this course compehensively provides DBAs with the invaluable skills they will need to perform effectively when troubleshooting problem queries and bottlenecks within Sybase ASE.

Sybase Backs iOS 4 in the Enterprise with Device Management and Security

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:30:00 EDT

Sybase has expanded its support for Apple devices with a full mobile device management and security solution for iOS 4. The release of Sybase Afaria delivers proven, market-leading functionality to empower enterprise IT to effectively manage the proliferation of personally and corporate-liable iPhones, while providing a high degree of security to meet the strictest corporate standards. “The increasing diversity of platforms being incorporated into enterprise environments, such as iPhone 4, have companies scrambling to enable the use of such high user-demand devices while maintaining corporate security policies,” said Jack Gold, President of J.Gold Associates, LLC. “Third party management and security applications like those from Sybase enable companies to augment these devices’ capabilities by keeping corporate data assets safe and separate from the private user sections of these devices. When such enhancements are deployed, these consumer devices can become capable business productivity tools connected to a corporate environment.”

Sybase Extends Mobile Device Management Solution to iPad & Android

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:15:00 EDT

Sybase, a provider of enterprise and mobile software, on Tuesday announced support for iPad and Android devices with the latest release of Afaria. With strong consumer adoption of highly functional mobile devices, enterprises are now able to embrace this widespread demand by providing secure access to corporate information. With the new ability to secure and manage iPad and Android, Sybase extends its ubiquitous device support to a list that includes iPhone, Windows Mobile, Windows, Symbian and BlackBerry. "The popularity of highly functional smart mobile devices, such as iPhone, Android and now the iPad, is significantly impacting enterprise mobility support requirements as these devices increasingly cross over from consumers into the corporate setting," said Jack Gold, president and principal analyst of J. Gold Associates, LLC. "The extensive communities currently established around mobile development will enable a near term and dramatic growth of data-rich deployments of enterprise-class applications where security and manageability are key requirements. Companies such as Sybase that exhibit leadership and a deep expertise in enterprise mobility, security and management, will be required to drive this emerging evolution in mobile business solutions."

Sybase First with Spatial Database and Synchronization for Mobile Devices

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Sybase, Inc., a provider of enterprise and mobile software, on Monday announced advanced spatial data functionality as part of the next release of its SQL Anywhere database and synchronization solution. This release makes Sybase the first vendor to enable development of data-driven spatial applications for leading smartphone devices and synchronize the on-device spatial data with spatial databases, application servers and enterprise systems. By leveraging these new capabilities, organizations in key markets such as utilities, telecommunications, manufacturing and government are able to provide field workers with access to detailed spatial information combined with business critical data in a robust and scalable way. “We expect the Spatial Information Management market to continue to grow at a healthy, compound annual rate over the next several years,” says David Sonnen, IDC's consultant for Spatial Information Management. “Spatially-enabled Sybase SQL Anywhere addresses the occasionally-connected environment gap that exists in the spatial market today.”