SAS Institute Announces Enterprise Miner Software
for Compaq`s Digital UNIX
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SAS Institute Inc. has announced that the Institute's data-mining product, Enterprise Miner software, is now available on Compaq's Digital UNIX. This release is the first implementation of Enterprise Miner software in a true 64-bit computing environment.
Enterprise Miner software offers a common environment for its primary users -- business analysts, quantitative professionals, and IT -- and addresses the entire data-mining process within one automated solution. Data mining, the process of selecting, exploring, and modeling huge volumes of data to uncover previously unknown patterns, is the key to competitive advantage for a growing number of businesses.
John Nicholson, vice president of the database and business intelligence business unit at Compaq Computer Corporation, characterized SAS Institute as Compaq's premier partner for data mining. "The Enterprise Miner product clearly has the potential to lead the industry," he said. "The results obtained from data mining are only as good as the quality of the data being mined, so a sound data warehousing foundation, which SAS Institute provides, is strongly recommended. This data warehousing offering sets Enterprise Miner software apart."
"The power and speed of Enterprise Miner software running on Compaq's 64-bit Alpha processors utilizing Compaq's Digital UNIX is absolutely critical to the largest and most complex production data-mining applications," said Mark Brown, SAS Institute's program manager for data mining and analytical solutions. "Customer relationship management, fraud detection, and credit-risk management and many other business goals require accessing and exploring terabytes of data."
Because effective data mining relies on large databases of detailed data as its research foundation, Compaq's performance-leading AlphaServers running true Compaq's true 64-bit Digital UNIX, offer customers fast results, even when performing the most complex, wide-ranging inquiries. Moreover, Compaq's AlphaServers utilize VLM (Very Large Memory) technology, which enables gigabytes of data to be stored in memory for fast retrieval, eliminating disk I/O and optimizing memory pathways.
In previous tests performed by Compaq for customers performing CHAID and neural network analyses, AlphaServers running Compaq's Digital UNIX finished 12 times faster than the same programs executed on a competitor's 32-bit UNIX.
Enterprise Miner software offers a wide range of algorithms in a single package -- decision trees, clustering, neural networks, data-mining regression, associations, and others. And it introduces a way to compare the results of analyses and select the most effective method. For IT departments, Enterprise Miner software offers the most complete and integrated data-mining solution, accessing all corporate data and implementing a proven data-mining method.
Compaq Computer Corporation and SAS Institute have planned worldwide marketing programs to promote Enterprise Miner software on Compaq's Digital UNIX to customers in financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. Compaq is also working with SAS Institute on pre-configured systems and services offerings. Alpha Warehouse Miner, a pre-configured 4100 AlphaServer running Compaq's Digital UNIX and optimized for Enterprise Miner software, was introduced at eureka98 in Paris on Sept. 14. Compaq will begin marketing this configuration worldwide during fourth quarter 1998.
SAS Institute, one of the top 10 independent software vendors, is a leader in decision support and data warehousing, providing integrated enterprise information-delivery solutions. SAS software and services are used at more than 31,000 business, government, and university sites in over 120 countries. Founded in 1976, SAS Institute has annual revenue of $750 million. For more information, see http://www.sas.com