Sun and SAS are pleased to announce an innovative new offering that will empower all levels of your organization – executives, managers and business units – with accurate, timely and secure data for fact-based decision making.

The SAS^® Enterprise Intelligence Platform Powered by Sun’s Datacenter of the Future (DcoF) is a cutting-edge initiative that will help you better manage, optimize and enhance your current IT infrastructure, enabling your organization to apply business intelligence across the enterprise.

During this Webcast, you’ll hear from industry experts about how this new approach to datacenters will help drive innovation and empowerment within IT. The DcoF leverages end-to-end, preconfigured solutions to help you increase performance while reducing the cost and complexity of enterprise intelligence solutions. In addition, the DcoF provides IT and executive managers the continuity, security, data privacy, ease of system administration, compliance and eco-friendly computing performance that are critical to the enterprise.

Key takeaways

• The SAS and Sun DcoF will help organizations successfully deploy the SAS^® Enterprise Intelligence Platform on Sun systems more quickly and efficiently.
• Aligning business and IT by treating data as an enterprise asset can improve organizational performance.
• Address concerns from your business counterparts on the impact of deploying enterprise analytics in a highly secure datacenter.

Speakers

• Scott VanValkenburgh, Alliance Marketing Director for SAS
  Scott VanValkenburgh leads SAS’ global efforts around the company’s platform and ISV offerings as it relates to its alliance development efforts. He is a recognized leader in the areas of business intelligence and analytics. Prior to joining SAS, VanValkenburgh was the founder and managing partner of The Sequoia Architecture Group LLC., a NYC-based venture capital business consultancy.
• Claudia Imhoff, PhD, President and Founder of Intelligence Solutions Inc.
  A thought leader, visionary and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer-focused strategy, Claudia Imhoff is a popular and dynamic speaker and an internationally recognized expert on analytical CRM, business intelligence and the infrastructure to support these initiatives – the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). Imhoff has co-authored five highly regarded and popular books on these subjects, and has written more than 60 columns for technical and business magazines.
• John Smale, Alliance Manager, Sun Microsystems
  John Smale is a Sun Global Account Executive and is responsible for Sun's partnership with SAS. Smale has worked for a variety of enterprise computing and software companies in the Silicon Valley over the past 20 years. He holds a master’s degree in computing engineering from Santa Clara University.