WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey, January 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Newest Version Provides Application Acceleration with Lower Total Cost 
of Ownership

Syncsort (http://www.syncsort.com/), a global leader in data integration, 
data protection, and data sorting, announced the release of DMExpress 5.0, 
Syncsort's high-speed data integration software solution that accelerates ETL, 
data warehousing, BI and other mission-critical applications. The new release 
combines functional enhancements and new platform support with incomparable 
ease-of-use, allowing customers to transform and aggregate even larger volumes 
of disparate data from multiple, heterogeneous sources faster and at a lower 
total cost of ownership (TCO). By using DMExpress as an "application 
accelerator," companies are able to make better and timelier business decisions 
as they increase their ROI.

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Functional enhancements to sources and targets mean that SAP, IBM
Mainframe and MicroFocus users can now take advantage of accelerated
processing with DMExpress 5.0. Also included in DMExpress 5.0 is support for
additional data types, such as Oracle Large Objects. Optimized performance
for platforms like Netezza and Vertica significantly reduces data processing
time, in some cases cutting data load time by over 80 percent. Further
enhancements include additional standardization, cleansing, and validation
functions to increase data quality, as well as "right-time" information
delivery to ensure that data remain actionable.

"Syncsort's commitment has always been to provide high-speed solutions to
the performance problems of any mission critical data integration process or
application," says Harvey Tessler, Syncsort's Senior Vice President of
Marketing, "With its support of SAP, IBM Mainframe, and MicroFocus, as well
as its tailored optimization for Netezza and Vertica, DMExpress 5.0
integrates smoothly into our customers' processes and applications, allowing
them to focus on what they do best: their business."

The new release comes on the heels of Syncsort's achievement of a new ETL
world record which broke the 1 GB per second barrier and also smashed the
previous benchmark set by Microsoft and Unisys. In November, Syncsort's
DMExpress extracted, transformed, and loaded 5.4 TB of raw TPC-H data into a
Vertica Analytic Database at an unprecedented rate of 1.6 GB per second.
Deployed on highly cost-efficient HP c7000 Blade servers, the DMExpress
solution also set a new cost standard of US$46 per GB hour, up to 97 percent
less than those of previous record holders who set marks of US$636 and 
US$1,538 per GB hour.

"The added functionality in DMExpress 5.0 coupled with the world record
achievement reaffirms Syncsort as a leader in the field of data integration,"
says Tessler, "Our continued commitment to providing high-speed,
cost-efficient solutions has redefined the cost of data integration as
companies look to tighten their belts and increase results in 2009."

About Syncsort Incorporated

Syncsort Incorporated is a leading developer of high-performance data
management and data warehousing software. For 40 years, Syncsort has built a
reputation for superior product performance and reliable technical support.
Most of the Fortune 500 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort's
products are used in more than 50 countries to back up and protect data in
distributed environments, speed data warehouse processing, and improve
performance of data-intensive applications and processes. For more
information call +1-201-930-9700 (+1-877-951-FAST in the US and Canada) or 
visit www.syncsort.com.