Ambeo Announces First Data Usage Tracking Solution for
Sybase IQ
Ensures data security, privacy and efficiency of user interactions with databases

Colorado Springs, CO – August 15, 2004
Ambeo, a leading provider of innovative data usage tracking and performance management software, today announced the availability of the first data usage tracking solution for Sybase® IQ. The Ambeo Performance Management suite answers a critical need to ensure greater management and protection of business information.

By monitoring multiple databases and DBMS products simultaneously, Ambeo provides real-time and long-term tracking of database usage for visibility and understanding of who is accessing, viewing and changing company data. As a result, IT management can proactively manage analytical and business intelligence data environments while assuring data privacy and minimizing security risks.

“Ambeo’s new offering for Sybase IQ adds tremendous value for our customers," said Paul Murphy, director technical services of Sybase. “With both our solutions working together, we deliver sophisticated monitoring and data-access auditing capabilities that capture an unprecedented depth of information.”

“New threats are emerging virtually every day, so companies are increasingly worried about the privacy and security of their data,” explained Ken Richardson, president and chief technology officer of Ambeo. “Adding Ambeo solutions to a Sybase IQ environment enables IT management to understand data usage and to comply with data privacy regulations – all without slowing down their high-speed business analysis and decision support databases.”

Unlike many monitoring solutions that take up valuable system resources, Ambeo provides a True Zero Overhead™ solution for data usage tracking and monitoring SQL activity. The Ambeo Performance Management suite includes the NetServer-3, a rack-mountable device pre-configured and optimized to run Ambeo’s Usage Tracker™ and Activity Tracker™ software for monitoring end-user database usage and query performance.

Sybase IQ is a highly scalable analytical engine, designed specifically from the ground up for unsurpassed query performance. With a column-based structure and patented indexing, it offers the lowest total cost of ownership for analytical applications, making it the leading choice for data warehousing.


About Ambeo
Since 1997, Ambeo's solutions have provided database auditing, user access monitoring and data usage management to Fortune 1000 companies with some of the largest database environments in the world. Ambeo's True Zero Overhead™ solutions provide information about how users actually interact with data. Using this information, Compliance, Security and IT management gain the visibility and understanding required to confirm regulatory compliance, protect data privacy, reduce risk of unauthorized data access, proactively manage data environments, maximize database investments, improve performance and assure end-user satisfaction.


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For more information contact:
Deborah Henken
Highland Team
Phone: 650-224-9295
Email: dhenken@highlandteam.com