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SAS Delivers Business Intelligence Software on HP Integrity Servers; SAS Teams Up with HP to Enhance Customer Experience.


CARY, N.C. -- SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System.  today announced that it will expand its relationship with HP to further develop, market and sell the SAS(R) Enterprise Intelligence Platform on HP Integrity servers. The agreement includes pre-sales support, project sizings, architecture assessments and additional resources dedicated to co-marketing Co-marketing is a marketing practice where two companies cooperate with separate distribution channels, sometimes including profit sharing. It is frequently confused with Co-promotion See also
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 and sales engagement activities. SAS has provided ongoing support for HP Integrity servers for more than two years.

Building on a 25-year relationship, the agreement provides a deeper integration between SAS' business intelligence software and HP Integrity servers running HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations.

(operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations.
 11i. The two companies will develop and market new vertical offerings to help customers integrate business processes across the enterprise and gain greater insight into business performance.

"With this announcement, we are demonstrating SAS' increasing commitment to the HP Integrity family of servers as an optimal platform for an enterprise's most demanding workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor
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, Vice President of SAS Strategic Alliances and Channels. "Customers can feel confident in the technology decisions they are making, knowing the SAS and HP combination delivers an efficient buying and implementation experience, as well as the support needed to ensure their mission-critical business applications perform at the high levels necessary to achieve corporate strategic goals."

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, pharmaceutical/life sciences and the public sector, have benefited from the companies' relationship because SAS' software has been optimized for greater performance on HP Integrity servers. This optimization optimization

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 is expected to continue for new releases and future updates to ensure a smoother implementation process and enable users to leverage their existing hardware and software investments more effectively.

"For more than 25 years, HP and SAS have worked together to provide server and application tuning and optimization for customers' most demanding business intelligence workloads," said Don Jenkins Jen´kins

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, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Servers, HP. "Today's announcement will help meet the increasing demand for our combined solutions and services, which offer customers a better return on their IT investment and a clear path to enterprise business intelligence success."

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business intelligence software and services. Customers at 40,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight into vast amounts of data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products. Only SAS offers leading data integration, intelligence storage, advanced analytics and business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R). www.sas.com

SAS and all other SAS Institute SAS Institute Inc., headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig.  Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. (R) indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
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