Sybase this week is awaited to take the wraps distant from a new suite of tools aimed at helping companies combine data from heterogeneous sources.

At its user interview in Las Vegas, Sybase plans to preview its Data Integration Suite, which combines data federation, replication, fact handling and search functions with frequent development and administration tools.

The suite is designed to help companies make better use of data that's scattered across numerous data stores, including application-specific databases, data marts and enterprise data warehouses. Forrester Research estimates that at least 35% of all application data is duplicated somewhere besides in the enterprise. In addition, data repositories for large applications enlarge about 50% annually Forrester says.

"People have been struggling with in what manner to integrate these data sources and prompt data from one place to another in such a manner that applications in various places around the organization can leverage the information and intelligence being gathered," says Kathleen Schaub, vice president of the IT and solutions assign places to at Sybase.

The applications that businesses want to build today require more than just data that has been copied to a data warehouse, Schaub says. To build a risk analysis application, for example, a financial services firm might want to combine historical data from a data warehouse, real-time data from operational classifications and data pulled from outside sources, similar as a news feed. "They ne to be able to create an application that mingles all these different kinds of data," Schaub says.

Version 10 of the Data Integration Suite, which Sybase wait fors to make available next quarter, will include four software modules:

* Sybase Replication, which copies data from place to place to make secure applications have access to the greatest in quantity current information.

* Sybase Data Federation, which creates a virtual view of data integrated in real time from multiple distributed sources.

* Sybase Real Time marked occurrences which uses a messaging architecture to alert orders or staff to critical affairs logged in operational databases.

* Sybase Search, for querying structur and unstructur data sources.

The suite also includes usual tools for modeling and metadata management (Sybase PowerDesigner), application disentanglement (Sybase Workspace) and administration.

In a release proper in the second half of 2007 Sybase plans to integrate its extract, transform and load (ETL) software for moving data from operational regularitys to a central repository.

Sybase, like many other vendors, has been making acquisitions to globular out its data integration offerings. In January Sybase acquired software maker Solonde for its ETL capabilities. Last May Sybase acquired Avaki, which built data integration software for running scheduled and ad hoc queries against distributed data sources.

Similarly IBM has purchased has purchased specialized vendors to orbed out its information integration lineup, including Ascential Software - for $11 billion - and Venetica. Other vendors with data integration suites include BEA plans and Oracle.

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