Garden Ridge Selects Sybase IQ for Real-Time Inventory Intelligence

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Applications used to run the business, such as customer scoring, supply
chain routing, inventory management and customer service-level monitoring,
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DUBLIN, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sybase, Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that Garden Ridge, the Houston-based home dicor retailer, selected Sybase(R) IQ analytics server as its data platform for operational reporting and analytics.

Before its Sybase IQ implementation, Garden Ridge's had to wait four to six hours, on a normal day, for database updates and queries. It also experienced periodic database issues that interfered with normal business operations. With quick implementation of Sybase IQ, Garden Ridge has reduced database processing time to less than two hours and eliminated its previous technical issues, improving productivity.

Sybase IQ analytics server typically delivers query performance 10 to 100 times faster than ordinary data management platforms while using standard hardware and operating systems. Sybase IQ is designed especially for the highly efficient storage, retrieval and analysis of massive volumes of data. It works easily with business intelligence applications including MicroStrategy, Business Objects and Cognos.

"As BI [Business Intelligence] expands from strategic use to operational use and becomes more pervasive, more users need access to current and historical information. Applications used to run the business, such as customer scoring, supply chain routing, inventory management and customer service-level monitoring, need to process today's data, not yesterday's," writes Gartner, Inc. analyst Bill Gassman in the September 2006 research note "Survey Shows BI Users Want Fresher Data."

"Retailers already hold the secret to extreme competitive advantage -- it's in their huge volumes of merchandising and supply-chain data -- they just need a key to unlock the value; Sybase IQ provides that key," said Kathleen Schaub, vice president Information Products Group, Sybase. "It allows companies to get the answer to any question, anytime. It truly changes the game. Sybase is happy to add Garden Ridge to the hundreds of enterprises, including the IRS, Nielsen Media, CitiGroup, Sony BMG Music and Shopzilla that gain advantage from Sybase IQ."

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