SAS Institute Offers Services From The Data Mining Discovery Center
SAS Institute Inc., a market leader in integrated data warehousing and decision support, has announced unique data mining consulting services that can be performed at the Institute's Data Mining Discovery Center.
Customers who lack the time, resources and technical capabilities to use analytical techniques effectively at their sites can take advantage of the Institute's resources at the Data Mining Discovery Center in Cary, NC. SAS Institute's data mining consultants can develop customized data mining solutions using the latest technology and technical expertise. Reinforcing its partnership with SAS Institute, Hewlett-Packard provides state-of-the-art hardware to the center, as well as extensive experience designing balanced systems for both UNIX and NT environments.
"We want our customers to get the most out of our data mining software, so we have packaged some of our most popular services to jump-start customer data mining activities," said Jerry Oglesby, director of analytical consulting, SAS Institute's North America.
A range of services can be performed at the Data Mining Discovery Center or at customer sites. Packaged offerings include proof-of-concept, prototype and implementation services. In addition to the packaged offerings, SAS Institute consultants can provide services to meet each customer's specific business requirements.
During a proof-of-concept service, SAS Institute consultants demonstrate an application that responds to one business question with one critical success factor. For example, consultants can build a response model for a single marketing campaign.
After a prototype service, customers receive a working prototype that responds to one business question with up to two critical success factors. This option may produce a profit chart to determine the optimal segment of target prospects and the expected response rate for a campaign.
An implementation service provides a production-ready application that responds to one business question with up to three critical success factors. Customers also receive documentation that includes information about the data mining approach and data mining techniques used.
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 115 countries. Founded in 1976, SAS Institute is the world's largest privately held software company with 1998 revenue of $871 million.
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