New SAS® 9.2 is Strategic Fit for Partners

SAS^® Upgrade Brings Enterprise Intelligence to Customers of HP, Sun and Others

SAS GLOBAL FORUM, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS  (March 17, 2008)  –  With today’s launch of SAS^® 9.2 at SAS Global Forum, SAS partners expressed support and excitement over the enhanced offering with many stating their plans to help their customers implement the new release. 

"Our system integrators and hardware partners alike are hearing the same business challenges of companies trying to align business processes, integrate and analyze data at a corporate level and make forward-thinking decisions with less risk," said Russ Cobb, Vice President of Alliances and Product Marketing. "SAS 9.2 is meeting these corporate information challenges and our partners will be integral in helping drive the adoption of SAS 9.2 globally."

SAS 9.2 improves business productivity and performance with its embedded analytic results and movement of applications into business processes, all of which can be shared quickly and easily across the enterprise. This new SAS release also offers deeper analytics to help companies get more out of their data.  In addition, SAS 9.2 has a new wizard interface that makes it easier for IT departments to manage the technology infrastructure and handle the growing business demands for enterprisewide business intelligence.

“This year marks the 20th anniversary of HP’s alliance with SAS on our HP-UX offering, and we just announced validation of SAS 9.2 on the HP-UX 11i v3,” said Carl d’Costa, Worldwide Director of Business Intelligence Alliances at HP . “In addition to supporting the majority of HP's strategic operating systems and hardware platforms, including HP-UX  on HP Integrity servers, SAS software also supports HP's newest platform, the Neoview enterprise data warehouse, to provide a complete ecosystem of business intelligence and advanced analytics solutions that help customers speed time to market, improve decision making and drive revenue growth.”

“Sophisticated software platforms like SAS 9.2 require an underlying infrastructure that can deliver essential IT services such as high availability and reliability, scalability and performance, data privacy and security, and ease of monitoring and systems management,” said Juan Carlos Soto, Vice President of Global Market Development at Sun Microsystems . “Sun offers that infrastructure, built from our world-class storage and x64 and UltraSPARC processor-based systems running on the open source Solaris Operating System. To this end, our customers know that their mission-critical SAS applications will run seamlessly on any Sun system while experiencing virtually no downtime.” 

SAS Partners Anticipate Value of SAS® 9.2

SAS has more than 400 partners worldwide, which contribute significantly to the company’s $2.15 billion in revenue. With an increasing focus on driving new, incremental software revenue through the development of indirect channels, while also leveraging partner resources in direct sales opportunities for the successful delivery and implementation of SAS solutions, the launch of SAS 9.2 is poised to bring many opportunities to SAS and its partners this year and beyond.

“SAS’ leadership in enterprise intelligence software and services – emphasized by the recent release of SAS 9.2 – continues to serve our large-scale forecasting needs," said Eddie Short, Vice President of Technology Services for Capgemini . "With SAS 9.2, Capgemini can further enhance its unique adaptive forecasting capabilities to ensure decision makers in the energy industry can make accurate and insightful business decisions." 

“SAS 9.2 is wholly compatible with our vision – the big picture of business intelligence and how technology should be used,” said Richard Phillips, Business Intelligence Practice Lead for ThotWave Technologies , based in Cary, NC.  “SAS 9.2 will give us incredible opportunities to show our clients SAS’ power, its usability, scalability and interoperability.”

“Wipro's acclaimed Business Intelligence Practice continuously strives to deliver higher value to its client in its BI, Performance Management and Analytics offerings. The latest SAS 9.2 release reiterates SAS' commitment to provide end-to-end capabilities in BI and enhanced Analytics Capability,” adds Sudhir Nair, Global Alliance Head for WiPro Technologies . “SAS' advanced analytics coupled with SAS 9.2 BI Web services will help in providing better solutions for our client's analytical requirements. Wipro's prefered partnership with SAS uniquely enables Wipro's BI Practice to further enhance its offerings in BI, Performance Management and Analytics."

"We are pleased to announce ZenGuard support of SAS 9.2,” stated David Septoff, Zencos CEO.  “We look forward to supporting joint customers as they take advantage of the new features and functionality to solve their business problems and reach their goals.” 

Today’s announcement came at SAS Global Forum, the largest annual SAS users group conference, attended by more than 3,000 business and IT users of SAS software and solutions.

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