"We believe our position in the Leaders quadrant validates our ability to provide a single, comprehensive mobile banking platform to retail banks," said Matthew Talbot, vice president mCommerce, Sybase 365. "Over the past few years, we have forged a market leading position with the depth and breadth of our technology and solution capabilities, as well as the growing number of banking customers that have adopted our solution around the world."

With Sybase's long history in the financial services market, first in database and now in mobile technology, the company continues to bring solutions to market that deliver exceptional quality, innovation and easy integration for our banking customers.

Sybase mBanking 365 offers a single connection to a complete, multi-channel mobile banking solution with SMS, mobile browser, and downloadable mobile client (for iPhone, Blackberry and J2ME devices, among others), on a single platform. The solution includes Sybase 365® Natural Language Interactive Intelligent SMS, allowing consumers to access services without needing to memorize set keywords, and out-of-band authentication enables secure services such as account transfers and payments.

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The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Sybase 365

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), is the global leader in enabling mobile information services for mobile operators, financial institutions and enterprises. We provide our customers with the widest offering in SMS, MMS and GRX interoperability, end-to-end mobile commerce solutions, innovative text messaging, mobile marketing and content delivery services. Sybase 365 processes more than one billion messages per day, reaching 800 operators and 3.4 billion subscribers around the world. For more information, visit: www.sybase.com/365. Read our blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com

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1 Magic Quadrant for North American Mobile Retail Banking, Publication Date: September 30, 2009, by Stessa B Cohen, ID Number: G00168917

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