The Dublin, Calif. company Monday officially announced the Sybase Data Integration Suite at its annual TechWave user conference in Las Vegas. The event runs through Thursday.

The suite, which will initially comprise existing products that perform data replication, data federation, real-time event messaging and data search, will be released early in the fourth quarter, Kathleen Schaub, vice president for Sybase's Information Technology Solutions Group, said in an interview before the show.

Schaub said the products will be integrated 35 different ways -- "some superficial, some quite deep" -- and feature common tooling and user interfaces.

Schaub said the suite is an outgrowth of Sybase's "unwired enterprise" strategy, which helps customers manage data even as it becomes more dispersed throughout a company. By contrast, another database vendor, Oracle Corp., has long based its solutions on helping enterprises manage data through consolidation.

"It's a good move on Sybase's part," said Joe Buhl, a senior database administrator for Wire One Communications Inc. The Miamisburg, Ohio audio and videoconferencing service provider has used Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) on Solaris 9 servers as its main database since 2000, as well as Replication Server 12.6 for disaster recovery. And it is considering a proof-of-concept test with the real-time messaging product to connect up with its JBoss-based JMS messaging platform.