With Sybase swiftly in SAP's fold, the new company's value proposition will be particularly attractive to businesses in the Asia-Pacific region, executives from both companies said last week. Speaking to ZDNet Asia in a phone interview from Boston, co-CEO of SAP Bill McDermott detailed technology milestones the company is working toward, highlighting the "record time" that SAP and Sybase took to come together and integrate their products. The German enterprise applications vendor finalized the acquisition of Sybase on Jul. 30, just 2.5 months after the two companies' announcement of the US$5.8 billion deal on May 12. Sybase remains a separately-run entity but is branded "a SAP company". According to McDermott, SAP and Sybase have committed to rolling out within nine months a new mobile platform that will enable "breakthrough mobile applications on-device" for customers globally.