SAS EXPERIMENT DESIGN INTERFACE BRINGS POWERFUL,
INTUITIVE ANALYSIS TO ENGINEERS AND RESEARCHERS
SAS Institute Inc., a market leader in statistical data analysis and integrated data warehousing and decision support, has announced the production release of a desktop (PC and workstation) 'point-and-click' interface for engineers and researchers who design and analyze standard experimental designs. The ADX Interface is available to download for Release 6.12 of the SAS System running on Windows 95, 98 and Windows NT workstations, as well as on HP-UX, IBM AIX for RS/6000, Solaris 2 for Sparc, Sun0S 4, COMPAQ's Digital UNIX and OpenVMS Alpha.
SAS software provides extensive capabilities for statistical quality control and quality improvement. Basic problem-solving methods play a key role in modern statistical quality improvement applications. As a result, SAS Institute was recently named in Manufacturing Systems magazine's Top 100 listing as the no. 13 leading supplier of software to the manufacturing marketplace. Palo Alto Management Group (PAMG), as well, ranks SAS Institute as the leading independent software vendor in the integrated data warehouse/decision support market.
According to Leo Wright, Manager, Statistical Quality Assurance at Gerber Products Company, "The ADX interface has reduced the cycle time for developing new products and processes by more than fifty percent. It also has increased our reliability when predicting product and process success. Our customers depend on excellence in the quality and safety of the products we provide and the ADX interface provides our developers a greater degree of efficiency and flexibility throughout the development cycle. It ensures that we exceed their expectations. The SAS ADX interface has certainly exceeded our expectations."
According to Jim Marshall, technology project manager at Kemet Electronics, "The SAS ADX interface lets us interactively optimize our new product development process. It is easy to use and understand, even for those not familiar with the software, and it generates its own reports."
"Responding to the needs of our customers is what SAS software does so well, and the ADX Interface is a direct result of that" said Donna Fulenwider, SAS Institute business manager for the Quality Center. "The ADX interface integrates the statistical software that our customers rely on, with interactive graphics and HTML output, giving scientists, such as those at Gerber and Kemet Electronics, an easy-to-use interface for advanced, accurate analysis of experimental data."
The ADX Interface supports the five key areas of the experimental design process: construction of the design, analysis of the response data, optimization of the responses in the design space, organization and saving of information about the experiment as it evolves, and reporting of the results. The ADX Interface supports these five steps through an extensive list of available designs, powerful and reliable model-fitting techniques, interactive graphics, intuitive and flexible interface, and text and HTML formatted reports.
About SAS Institute -- SAS Institute, one of the top 10 independent software vendors, is the leader in decision support and data warehousing, providing integrated enterprise information-delivery solutions. The Institute markets packaged business solutions for vertical industry and departmental applications, as well as an integrated suite of software tools and consulting services that allow companies to transform the wide variety of data within their organizations into information that business users and researchers need to make better decisions. SAS software and services are used at more than 33,000 business, government, and university sites in over 115 countries. Founded in 1976, SAS Institute is the world's largest privately held software company with annual revenue of $871 million.
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