Sun Solution Center for SAS Competency

In 2005 45% of new SAS business on UNIX was done on SUN Solaris servers. Sun offers a great platform for SAS deployments:

• Enterprise strength hardware, with massive scalability, mainframe like RAS and flexible resource management.
• Solaris 10 includes more than 600 features that make it the most efficient, secure, and reliable operating system ever built.
• 64 bit prove architecture and mature multi tasking and multi threading implementation for excellent performance and throughput.

To further its investment with SAS, Sun has recently announced the opening of The Sun Solution Center for SAS Competency in its Menlo Park Campus. This is a collaborative effort between Sun and SAS Institute on delivering technology. It brings "high-value" ISV consulting expertise for our customers and partners by delivering proven Performance & Sizing characterization and Architecture & Design of the total customer landscape. "To address the significant market growth of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies, the Sun Solution Center is making joint investments with SAS Institute on delivering high-value ISV consulting expertise for our customers and partners." Graham Steven, Sr. Director Sun Solution Center

Pictured left to right: Warren Weston, Sun Sales; Bill Borum, SAS Sales; Steve Terrill, Alliance Manager, SAS; Graham Steven, Sr. Director Sun Solution Center; Jamshed Doctor, Director, SSC ISV Competency; Steve Borcich, VP Marketing, Sun; John Smale, Alliance Manager, Sun; Don Hatcher, Vice President, SAS EEC; Rod Tansimore, Marketing Director, Sun; Susan Bogle, Partner Marketing Manager, Sun; Victor Galis, Enterprise Architect SSC

Available only to Executive Members of Sun's Partner Advantage Program, the Sun Solution Center offers many benefits to its preeminent Partners like SAS. The Sun Solution Center for SAS Competency offers dedicated, high level, strategic account planning; pre-sales services; and solution development expertise designed to mitigate not only SAS's risk, but also their customer's risk and time-frames associated with implementing a new solution.

The Centers provide such activities as:

• Executive Briefings
• Needs Assessment
• Architecture Design/Workshop
• Proof-of-Concept
• Solution Prototyping
• ISV-Specific Competency (Sizing, Consulting)
• Performance
• Tuning and Scalability Testing; Utility Computing Consulting
• Competitive System Pricing Models
• High Performance Computing Benchmarks
• Performance Tuning & Scalability Tests

In addition, as a member of the Sun Solutions Center, SAS will also be provided access to Sun's solutions portfolio, global infrastructure and resources and higher level contacts within Sun. Sun and SAS teams will work together on in-depth solution development efforts and collaborate on co-selling and marketing these high-value solutions, helping to increase pipeline, while strengthening the client's overall trust in deploying a SAS on Sun Solution.

Today, the Sun Solution Center has around 70 Centers and 350 Partners (SIs, ISVs, Channel Partners and CDPs) spreading across: 25 Sun Solution Centers; Global Solution & POC Centers; Global ISV Competency Centers; Global Benchmark Centers; High Performance Computing Center; Competitive Engagement Center and approximately 40 Authorized Sun Solution Centers.

For more information, visit:

• http://www.sun.com/ssc