ISUG's New Partner Agreement With eLearnIT Makes Innovative Education Methods Available To Sybase Users Everywhere

DUBLIN, Calif., June 24, 2009 — The International Sybase User Group, a trade association representing more than six thousand members in more than sixty countries around the globe, has reached an agreement with web-based skills training company eLearnIT, LLC. Under the agreement, ISUG will become the exclusive marketing and sales agent for eLearnIT's new online PowerBuilder training courses.

Fronted by one of the most recognized and revered PowerBuilder educators of the last decade, eLearnIT's soup-to-nuts PowerBuilder Core Skills training course enables professional software developers as well as second year Technical College IT students to rapidly develop a comprehensive PowerBuilder skill set. Upon completion of the core course, a developer will be capable of building their own PowerBuilder workgroup scale application from scratch or performing maintenance tasks on an enterprise scale application.

“eLearnIT has developed an innovative online delivery mechanism for its educational courses that IT professionals will find intuitive and easy to use,” said Mike Harrold, Executive Director for ISUG. “Coupled with eLearnIT's extensive PowerBuilder knowledge, the courses to be offered will be comprehensive, market-relevant and extremely affordable due to their web-based delivery mechanism.”

“We believe that one of the major causes of the acute shortage of skilled PowerBuilder developers in the market today is the lack of cost effective, high impact core skills training” said Yakov Werde, President of eLearnIT, LLC. “Current global economic conditions makes taking five days off from work, while paying thousands of dollars in tuition and travel expenses for live classroom training off the radar for most organizations' employees.”

eLearnIT's flagship training product employs current rich media technologies, formulated from more than a decade of experience in training thousands of new PowerBuilder developers. The web-based program is delivered in a self-paced format that offers an always-available, live classroom-quality experience for a fraction of the price of on-site training. Coupling the quality of the content with an ISUG-hosted learner support forum, every student will receive a real web 2.0 learning experience.

Product Availability and Pricing
The first PowerBuilder course will be made available to ISUG members starting in July 2009, with general availability to follow thereafter. Pricing will begin at $699, with premium add-ons available for an additional cost. For more information, visit www.isug.com/pbtraining.

About ISUG
Founded more than 20 years ago, the International Sybase User Group is an independent association that represents thousands of users of Sybase products in more than 60 countries around the world. Members network together through local, regional and virtual meetings to share ideas, solutions and insights into Sybase technologies, all of which results in increased learning, and thus increased earning potential. Membership in ISUG is obtained by simply joining one of ISUG's regional, local or virtual user groups. For more information on ISUG, or to become a member, please visit www.isug.com.

About eLearnIT
Based in New Jersey, eLearnIT is the brainchild of Yakov Werde, a Sybase professional and educator with more than 15 years of experience. eLearnIT’s mission is to guide software professionals to know and do by providing them with comprehensive fundamental and advanced training solutions. For more information about eLearnIT and to see a preview of the soon to be released course, please visit www.elearnitonline.com/PBCourseOverview/player.html.

New Partner Agreement Brings Additional Technical Resources To International User Group Member Base

DUBLIN, Calif., June 19, 2009: The International Sybase User Group, a trade association representing more than six thousand members in more than sixty countries around the globe, has signed a new partner agreement with Minneapolis-based M2 Consulting. This collaboration will extend M2 Consulting's education services and application development expertise to ISUG members.

“M2 Consulting's service offering represents an extremely valuable addition to the benefits that ISUG offers Sybase users everywhere,” noted Mike Harrold, Executive Director for ISUG. “This is a great opportunity for both organizations to provide more value-add for ISUG members, and we look forward to working with M2 Consulting to make that happen in the coming months.”

M2 Consulting's pedigree in performance and tuning, implementations, upgrades, data movement, application development and business continuity will be immediately attractive to ISUG members who are well known for constantly seeking to augment their skill sets. Building upon a relationship that spans almost two decades, M2 Consulting's proximity to Sybase technologies will now be leveraged towards the user community base in the most compelling way possible.

“ISUG's local user groups and virtual user groups continue to be a valuable asset not only to the organization's membership, but also to Sybase in defining and prioritizing future product enhancements and understanding the requirements of current customers,” said David Mitchell, President of M2 Consulting. “M2 Consulting understands the power of relationships within a technical community. As such, we are resolutely proud to be an ISUG Partner!”

About ISUG
Founded more than 20 years ago, the International Sybase User Group is an independent association that represents thousands of users of Sybase products in more than 60 countries around the world. Members network together through local, regional and virtual meetings to share ideas, solutions and insights into Sybase technologies, all of which results in increased learning, and thus increased earning potential. Membership in ISUG is obtained by simply joining one of ISUG's regional, local or virtual user groups. For more information on ISUG, or to become a member, please visit www.isug.com.

About M2 Consulting
M2 Consulting is a Sybase Systems Integration Partner and Bradmark Partner based in the Minneapolis, MN area. M2 provides customers with Sybase and Bradmark software solutions as well as education and consulting services. M2's focus is on performance and tuning, implementations, upgrades, data movement, application development, and business continuity. The leadership of M2 Consulting has been working with Sybase products as a customer, Sybase employee, Certified Sybase Professional, Certified Instructor, and Sybase Partner since 1991.

DUBLIN, Calif, May 21, 2009: The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) today announced the first five dates of a series of user group meetings it will be hosting throughout the rest of the year focused on the soon-to-be launched PowerBuilder 12 Community Technology Preview.

Each meeting will include a review of new technology scheduled for release in PowerBuilder 12, followed by a hands-on session where attendees will get to navigate their own way through various aspects of the CTP, all under the watchful eye of a Sybase PowerBuilder expert.

"A Community Technology Preview is designed to solicit informative feedback from the members of the community at which the product is aimed," said Mike Harrold, ISUG Executive Director. "It therefore makes perfect sense to introduce PowerBuilder users to the CTP through their local Sybase user groups."

The dates announced today are:

1. June 2nd -- Boston: Sybase North East Kingdom Users Society (SNEKUS)
2. June 4th -- New York City: New York City PowerBuilder User Group (NYCPBUG)
3. June 9th -- Minneapolis: Minnesota Sybase User Group (MNSUG)
4. June 23rd -- Houston: Sybase Users' Group of Texas (SUG-TX)
5. June 25th -- Denver: Denver Sybase User Group (DENSUG)

Complete information on each of these meetings, along with registration information, can be found online here. Seating is limited at each meeting, so interested users should register as soon as they know they will be attending. There is no cost to attend, but preference will be given to members of ISUG and the user group hosting the event.

DUBLIN, Calif, April 17, 2009: Building on the recent enhancements to its members-only website to promote social networking within the community, the International Sybase User Group today announced the addition of Wikis and Media Libraries to My.ISUG.com.

First created in 1994, Wikis have become a de facto standard on the internet for collaboration and knowledge sharing between users within a topic of common interest.

“We believe that the more methods of collaboration that we can provide our members with, the stronger the community becomes,” said Mike Harrold, ISUG Executive Director. “The addition of Wikis to the website will enable us to build a knowledge base for users of Sybase products that will be unparalleled.”

Media libraries consist of photographic slideshows and can be placed either on a member's 'MyPage' or on a community page.

“Our members often wish to share their photographs from conferences and user group meetings with other members of the community,” noted Cindy Bean, ISUG VP of Membership. “The new media libraries will make this incredibly easy, typifying the community spirit that ISUG works so hard to promote.”

For more information on these new features, consult the help documentation online at My.ISUG.com.

DUBLIN, Calif., March 31, 2009: The International Sybase User Group is introducing the latest benefit for our members, the ISUG Preferred Service Provider Program. The goal of the program is to make the greater community aware of trusted individuals whose work is exemplary and who can be trusted to carry out business in a professional, ethical manner. In essence, companies can feel safe when choosing to do business with our PSPs.

The ISUG Preferred Servicer Provider (PSP) Program is reserved for ISUG Gold and Green members in good standing. Participants in the program may utilize the official ISUG PSP seal on their business cards, letterhead, website etc. to show their stature in the community.

For more information on this exciting new program, or to apply to become a participant, visit www.isug.com/psp today!

Latest issue of ISUG's premier publication available to members on My.ISUG.com

Several great topics are covered in this issue: TDS Protocol, ASE Partitioning and SQL Statement Replication, to name just three.

As always, previews are available on this site under the current issue of the journal.

DUBLIN, Calif., March 31, 2009: The International Sybase User Group is introducing the latest benefit for our members, the ISUG Preferred Service Provider Program. The goal of the program is to make the greater community aware of trusted individuals whose work is exemplary and who can be trusted to carry out business in a professional, ethical manner. In essence, companies can feel safe when choosing to do business with our PSPs.

The ISUG Preferred Servicer Provider (PSP) Program is reserved for ISUG Gold and Green members in good standing. Participants in the program may utilize the official ISUG PSP seal on their business cards, letterhead, website etc. to show their stature in the community.

For more information on this exciting new program, or to apply to become a participant, visit www.isug.com/psp today!

DUBLIN, Calif., November 13, 2008: The International Sybase User Group is pleased to announce a new level of membership - the "Academic" level. There are two packages available containing basic slots for 25 and 50 students. Each package also includes a full gold membership for the class professor or teacher.

"We believe this is a great way to get information about Sybase and its products into the next generation of Sybase users," commented Bryan Enochs, President of ISUG. "In the coming months, we look forward to working with more schools and colleges to assist them with their needs."

ISUG is also pleased to announce that their first membership at the new Academic level is the Red River College located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Red River College hosted a recent user group event in the city.

"This package gives students a chance to experience and see the value of a 'real world' user group and how it works," said Mr. Bake. "It also has shown the students that even though people may work for different corporations, there is a willingness to share knowledge amongst professionals, and that help is only a click away."

Pricing and Availability
The Academic packages are available immediately and are priced at $195 and $295 respectively.

For more information on Academic memberships, please visit the ISUG web site at http://www.isug.com/academic_memberships.

Marketing and promotional partnership agreed between ISUG and VendorRate, a web-based provider of customer service ratings of technology vendors.

VendorRate helps reduce your risk when purchasing technology products and services by viewing vendor customer satisfaction scores as provided by IT professionals.

Vendor summary scores will always be viewed free of charge to ISUG members.

Vendor detailed scoring information, including comments, vendor comparison reporting tools, vendor tracking and notification, and vendor trends are available on an annual subscription cost of $149 per user.

ISUG members receive all detailed scoring information FREE until 12/1/2008. Thereafter, ISUG members receive a $20 discount on the annual subscription price.

VendorRate also releases Quarterly Reports and Trade Show reports that list vendors with top customer satisfaction scores by industry and sector. Trade show reports are priced at $99 each, and quarterly reports are $249 each These reports are provided free to ISUG members as long as they rate a vendor each quarter. Access to these reports are free to each ISUG member who rates during a calendar quarter. ISUG members who do not contribute a rating in a quarter receive a $10 discount when purchasing individual trade show reports, and $20 on each quarterly report