March 27, 2007 - Sun, SAS, and AMD teamed recently to give their customers first-class access to the power of SAS running on the Solaris 10 and x64 platform. Customers eager to lower costs and increase efficiencies in their BI applications are taking advantage of the quick-start program, which provides SAS customers low-risk, no waiting early access to Sun x64 servers powered by the AMD Opteron processor. This priority treatment reduces the amount of time spent during the evaluation and deployment process, and speeds time to market for SAS customers. Within a matter of days rather than weeks, customers were able to evaluate the performance benefits of running their SAS applications on Solaris 10.

Sun and SAS have a rich history of jointly delivering enhanced performance, manageability, and scalability for mission-critical BI applications. For this services solution, Sun, AMD, and SAS worked side-by-side to guide customers through a quick-start process for launching a long-term technology strategy.

The x64 platform from Sun and AMD offered SAS customers significant benefits in cooling efficiencies, scalability, and total cost of ownership. These customers received VIP treatment from three partners who understand the importance of customer service. SAS 9 running on Solaris 10 made it easier for customers to improve productivity and performance by consolidating SAS business intelligence applications to maximize server usage.

Sun Partner Advantage

For 19 years, Sun and SAS have had a business relationship built on developing tightly integrated solutions. Collaborative engineering between SAS and Sun keeps the performance of SAS’ software optimized for the Sun platform. The two companies enjoy a long, proven track record of delivering open, scalable, and reliable technology solutions.

A Leader in Business Intelligence

Customers at 42,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight from data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products and processes. Only SAS offers leading data integration, storage, 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.

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