This release focuses on minimizing deployment time for banks, credit card issuers, brokerages and other financial institutions.

"A major roadblock in launching mobile banking services lies in integrating services with existing core banking systems," said Matthew Talbot, vice president, mCommerce of Sybase 365. "Many providers are focusing on a 'one-size fits all' approach that severely slows speed to market, reduces the number of supported services, and requires a great deal of effort from internal bank IT teams. In this product release, we've focused on making Sybase mBanking 365 easy to deploy."

Sybase mBanking 365 v.2.0 allows easy mobile banking integration with the bank's existing core banking systems. The comprehensive Operational Module enables banks to have complete control over their new mobile banking channel.

Previous implementations of Sybase eBanking and mBanking products resulted in connectors for 11 different core banking systems, 11 middle-ware methods and 25 of the most common banking applications. Sybase mBanking 365 exploits this rich heritage, making it even easier for banks to integrate mobile banking in a standards based manner.

Sybase mBanking 365 v.2.0 will also increase efficiencies in operating and maintaining mobile services and products due to the flexibility of its operational module. Banks will have complete control over customer profile management, including support for customer self-service and bank employee. With single sign-on and web-services support, this can be easily integrated into existing customer management systems.

Sybase mBanking 365 v.2.0 includes numerous enhancements to existing features, including extending the flexibility of supporting mobile alerts with the Universal Alerts Engine that can now integrate to existing external alerts engines as required.

Sybase 365 is at the forefront of mobile banking, with the only product that offers a single connection to complete, multi-channel mobile banking solutions with SMS, mobile browser, and rich-client on a single platform. Multi-channel support, Universal Alerts Engine, unique interactive natural language - Intelligent SMS - banking and built-in Operator connectivity, enable Financial Institutions to launch mBanking services quickly and easily.

Sybase is a trusted partner for some of the world's biggest banks. The company has over 20 years experience in providing integrated services to more than 200 of the world's leading financial institutions. Coupled with Sybase 365's mobile banking expertise as the leading provider of mobile services (SMS, MMS) for financial corporations worldwide, the company is uniquely placed to enable banks to realize the potential of mobile banking.