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February 11, 2010

In a ”Stream” of Good News: Sybase acquires Aleri Technology

Well, the good news is coming faster than snowflakes in Washington, DC. Last week, Sybase announced acquisition of the assets of Aleri, Inc., to bolster Sybase’s capabilities and underscore our commitment to real-time analytics and BI. The added capabilities will be immediate good news to our users in financial services and will play a role in the growth of real-time BI across the intelligence, communications, marketing, retail, energy, healthcare and other sectors.

As many of you know, Sybase offers a stream processor as an option to Sybase RAP – our real-time analytics product. That option, Sybase CEP or Complex Event Processor, is based upon technology from Coral8, who were recently merged into Aleri. The combination of Aleri and Coral8 formed a powerhouse in the CEP arena and those products are now part of the Sybase analytics portfolio.

Low-latency analysis is the hallmark of CEP technology, and slashes the “time to knowledge”. Using a CEP, users can run time-critical event filtering, analysis, aggregation and selective persistence over data streams as they arrive, rather than having to delay the analysis until after the event streams have been captured, transformed and loaded.

In addition to slashing latency, CEP can also help to reduce warehouse storage requirements and help tame problems that were heretofore too costly to solve. By conducting analysis of a stream as it arrives, much of needed analysis and aggregation can be done without persisting details to the warehouse at all. If your data has no retention requirements, other than your analysis needs, you may be able to use CEP to greatly reduce your warehouse costs.

As society and systems that support it create information at an ever-accelerating pace, BI requirements will grow commensurately. This means increasing demands for algorithmic trading, measurement of risk, tracking of behaviors and transactions, detection and analysis of network outages, health care trend tracking, detection of terrorist threats can be met, often in near-real-time. We suspect few BI teams will escape increasingly stringent latency requirements in the near future, and Aleri CEP products will help Sybase deliver up on your needs for low-latency, high-volume analytics.

For more information on the acquisition and its significance, here are 4 sources you might want to review:
- Sybase’s announcement of the acquisition.
- Neil McGovern’s blog on Risk analytics with coverage of the announcement
- Sybase RAP product pages
- Aleri’s web site, which provides a broad range of information about the products, markets, application and is a great interim reference as we move to integrate Aleri’s web content into Sybase.com.

Watch Sybase.com and this blog where we’ll keep you up to date on Sybase’s progress integrating Aleri and enhancing the real-time capabilities of Sybase analytics product family.

Bill

Posted by Sybase IQ at February 11, 2010 4:52 PM