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Sybase 12.5 End of Life: Your Options Are Wide Open

In August 2007 Sybase issued an End of Life notice that will end engineering support of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5 by December 31st 2009. Sybase’s decision badly impacts customers that see no real value in migrating to ASE 15.

Retiring Sybase 12.5 does not mean a forced migration to Sybase 15.

Inventa’s services and technology open up the full panoply of options to truly minimize your cost and the risk of database migration and consolidation. By utilizing the ANTs Compatibility Server (ACS) software solution, your Sybase applications can be migrated to a non-Sybase platform with minimal or even zero rewriting.
The benefits of this approach are significant:

  • You greatly reduce overall database TCO
  • You reduce the complexity of managing many several databases
  • You raise server utilization

Our approach focuses on three core areas to completely cover the entire modernization project:

Portfolio Assessment
License Assessment
Application Assessment

Portfolio Assessment Service

The Portfolio Assessment Service gives you with a comprehensive understanding of your application portfolio. It uncovers potential database modernization options that can pay dividends for years to come.
The Portfolio Assessment does an analysis of applications including:

  1. Application Profile (type of application)
  2. Application Performance
  3. Application Lifecycle (Retirement)
  4. Application Cost reduction (Consolidation)

The assessment also includes an ROI analysis of multiple migration options.

License Assessment Service

The License Assessment Service gives you a complete report of your current total cost of ownership on Sybase database licenses. This information will help you manage your vendors and understand all of you costs during negotiations.
The License Assessment does an analysis of contracts including:

  1. License Costs
  2. Support Costs (resources)
  3. Derive management ratios (i.e. TCO per CPU)

Here too we provide a full ROI analysis for each of the migration paths open to you.

Application Assessment Service

The Application Assessment Service gives you application information that will help you make realistic estimations and provide directional leadership within your organization. It will give you the right statistics required to support your decisions.
The Application Assessment delivers the following four project analyses:

  1. Choosing an example application
  2. Migration to another RDBMS using vendor migration tools
  3. Results of Initial Migration
  4. Metric collection of results

The assessment also provides the following recommendations:

  1. Reporting on top conversion issues.
  2. Derive estimates of similar applications based upon conversion success/failures.
  3. Manual sampling of reported success and failures.