The sheer volume and complexity of information generated by today’s enterprises has created the pressing need for a next-generation of business applications and database solutions. These solutions must be capable of handling a massive number of transactions and meeting the demands of an ever-growing population of concurrent users. SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE) is a high-performance transactional database platform that is optimized for SAP Business Suite software and designed to deliver the exceptional performance and reliability required in the big data era. IBM Power Systems is a highly scalable UNIX platform tuned for SAP application and data management software. In collaboration, the SAP-IBM alliance of solutions create the optimal landscape for heightened performance levels to keep up with real-time business and increased operational efficiency in the face of growing complexity – the best of both worlds.