Sybase partners with SEED Infotech

In order to expand its presence in the market, Sybase has partnered with SEED
Infotech, an IT institute based in Pune. Sunil Jose, MD-India and Sub-Continent,
Sybase Software informed that the company is trying to increase the partners by
concentrating on smaller partners. This, he feels, can help the company in
building their network in the market. NIIT is the educational partner of Sybase
for the North region since quite some time. “In order to align ourself with more
established education institutes, create ready pool of trained manpower for our
solutions, and to deliver corporate trainings on Sybase products, we have tied
up with SEED Infotech as it is one of the big local centers in the western
region,” said Jose.

To start with, Sybase has tied up with SEED Infotech in the western region
and gradually will be moving towards the other cities as well.

SEED Infotech has already conducted open-end workshops on the Adapter Server
Enterprises product (ASE), one of the major product of Sybase and has witnessed
a good participation from the corporate and students' front. “Having a good
exposure in the western region market in the IT sector has helped SEED
collaborate with Sybase as their partner,” said Prashant Dhawale, Strategic
Alliance Manager, SEED Infotech.

Looking from an Indian perspective, Sybase is also holding talks with the
partners in Bengaluru and Kerala for the southern region, and intends to expand
in the eastern regions as well. On the marketing front, Sybase has started a
partner recrui­tment drive, in various cities to hold a strong position in the
market.

SEED Infotech will be conducting workshops and corporate trainings for the
various IT organizations is using Sybase as a product, and intends to take this
collaboration to the next level by using more Sybase products in their
organization.