SAS Institute and HP Announce Global Initiative
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SAS Institute Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company have announced a global initiative designed to leverage the new HP 9000 V2500 Enterprise Server in joint data-warehouse solution offerings for customer-relationship management (CRM).
These CRM solutions, featuring the HP 9000 V2500 Enterprise Server and SAS software and services, offer customers a scalable source of powerful data-warehousing solutions spanning all major industries.
"Together, HP and SAS Institute offer a range of data-warehousing solutions, from department-based NT data marts to enterprise environments, requiring the V2500 with scalable computing architecture (SCA) technology," said Janice Chaffin, general manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "With the V2500, HP is focused on delivering decision-support solutions to customers who have large amounts of data that require a business-critical computing architecture. With SAS Institute software, we can apply a suite of business-intelligence techniques beyond standard reporting methods, and quickly return the results for effective and efficient customer management."
As part of HP and SAS Institute's ongoing CRM efforts, the two companies will leverage the exclusive SAS Institute and HP Data Mining Discovery Center as a key service component for their world-class CRM product offerings. This collaborative initiative, a powerful fusion of hardware, software, advanced analytical methodologies, and technical and business consulting expertise, is based in a central facility at the SAS Institute world headquarters in Cary, N.C. The center now features HP's high-end V-Class configuration, which allows for application tuning and scalability testing using terabytes of data.
"We've had a lot of success in the CRM market with joint wins with Fortune 500 financial institutions," said Barrett Joyner, SAS Institute's vice president of marketing and sales in North America. "Our CRM customers are doing very compute-intensive decision-support and data-warehousing projects with enormous amounts of data. The new V2500 from HP gives them the type of scalable architecture for large computing problems - large issues that really require hardware technology allowing for maximum headroom and performance."
SAS Institute and HP have joint R&D efforts under way to maximize and take full advantage of the V2500's new scalable computing architecture, 440MHz processor speeds and higher I/O capacities. R&D activities include performance enhancements and optimization of SAS Institute's Enterprise Miner software on a variety of high-end V-Class server configurations. The results will allow HP and SAS Institute to continually offer the optimal, highest-performing data-mining technique tailored to a customer-specific environment.
About HP
Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 124,600 employees and had revenues of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.
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About SAS Institute
Now in its 22nd year, SAS Institute is one of the top ten largest independent software vendors in the world, and is the largest privately held software company. The leading provider of data warehousing and decision-support software, the Institute has won the reader-selected 1996 and 1997 Datamation magazine Data Warehousing Product of the Year award and Software Magazine's Editor's Choice award for decision-support software.
SAS Institute provides an integrated suite of information delivery tools that allow companies to transform the wide variety of data within their organization into information that business users need to make decisions. To make data useful, SAS software collects data from almost every platform and data format; cleans and transforms data into information that users will understand; and stores that information in an open and efficient data warehouse structure. To explore that information, SAS software includes OLAP, query and reporting, EIS, data mining, analysis, data visualization, and application-development interfaces. SAS software is client/server and Web enabled. SAS Institute also delivers business solutions for financial consolidation and reporting, clinical trials analysis, oil and gas analysis and IT service management. Currently, SAS software and business solutions are being used at more than 30,000 business, government, and university sites in more than 120 countries.