Sybase to provide business-intelligence software to two Chinese companies Sybase has announced two deals to provide business-intelligence software to two Chinese companies, including white-goods maker Haier Group.Haier, based in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, will use Sybase’s Dynamic Operational Data Store (ODS) to pull data from its transaction processing systems, Sybase said in a statement. The Dynamic ODS system is slated to be operational in September 2005 and will give Haier’s management the ability to view information about operations across the entire company, it said.In a separate deal, Sybase has provided its Industry Warehouse Studio (IWS) for Insurance business-intelligence system to Taikang Life Insurance Co., in Beijing. Taikang has completed the first phase of a planned roll out of the system, which is intended to help the company prepare for increased competition from foreign insurance companies entering the Chinese market, Sybase said. Taikang is using this business-intelligence system to analyze customer information that previously was spread across disparate computing systems, it said.Sybase did not disclose the financial terms of either deal. Technology IndustrySoftware DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceDatabases