Sybase Upgrades Text Analysis Engine

Sybase, Inc. has announced a new release of its Sybase IQ analytics server, offering full text search, query federation and web-enabled analytics. The product promises to help companies unlock the unstructured information held in everything from e-mail to contact-center notes to news articles and social media.

California-based Sybase provides mobile data management and embedded databases, reporting, predictive analytics and business intelligence. The firm's $5.8bn acquisition by US management software giant SAP was announced last week.

Release 15.2 of Sybase IQ is billed as the first analytical database system where unstructured enterprise content can be queried alongside fielded, numerical data, using a columnated approach.

IQ offers text search and analysis using multiple or alternative words and phrases and scoring documents for frequency, while its query federation feature allows data in other locations to be accessed without having to be moved or copied to a data warehouse, giving a more holistic view of an organization's data. The new version adds extended support for leading Web 2.0 development tool languages for quicker and easier testing of prototype models and analytical applications; and Real-Time Loading, which makes information available immediately for analysis.

Tom Traubitz, Director of Sybase IQ Product Marketing, says enterprise-level analytics technology is now being embraced by the business community, and is transforming from a standalone process to an enterprise-enabled and connected system.

The product is featured online at www.sybase.com/iq .

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