SAS Sets New Standards on 64-Bit BI Support

SAS Enterprise BI Server, one of the first major enterprise business intelligence solutions released capable of operating on a 64-bit architecture, continues to offer the industry’s widest choice of operating systems and hardware.

With the most recent addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 on Itanium, SAS Enterprise BI Server is now available on the following 64-bit based hardware and operating system combinations:

• Solaris (SPARC only).
• HP-UX on Itanium.
• AIX.
• Windows Server 2003 family for Itanium-based systems.
• HP-UX on HP-PA/RISC (Alpha).

 Other platforms supported include Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 families (x86-32-based architectures), and SuSE SLEs 8 (x86-32-based architectures) and IBM z/OS. No other BI vendor comes close to this wide range of choice.

Compelling business advantages
SAS Enterprise BI Server, the industry’s most comprehensive BI solution, helps organizations address many of the most demanding aspects of their business by allowing them to analyze and report on large amounts of critical information that most basic reporting tools cannot handle.

"SAS’ 64-bit BI solutions running on Intel processors offer compelling business and IT advantages," says Pat Gellsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. "Intel has already shipped over 1 million processors for 64-bit servers, and has a proven track record for simplifying migrations and providing powerful, flexible and cost-effective support for enterprise business intelligence on 64-bit server platforms."

SAS on Intel
SAS and Intel have been working together for more than 10 years to develop and deploy SAS solutions on Intel-based platforms to help solve real business problems in the most cost-effective manner. Most recently, the two companies brought SAS®9to the Linux 64-bit operating system on the Intel Itanium 2 processor.

SAS and Intel have optimized the SAS Enterprise BI Server to take full advantage of the power, scalability and reliability of the newest Intel server platforms. This optimization allows businesses of all sizes to quickly and easily extract and analyze massive amounts of critical business information from across the entire enterprise and then apply it intelligently to their decision making processes.

"The ability to run SAS business intelligence on this architecture represents a significant step for organizations across industries, which need it to meet their scalability requirements," says Dr. Jim Goodnight, SAS’ CEO. "Successful BI requires the ability to reach large audiences and deliver results quickly, consistently and accurately. We continue to invest in key 64-bit technologies, which represent the future in terms of speed and capacity, and further enable SAS Enterprise BI Server users at all levels to leverage enterprise data."