MAINLINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

"Mainline is very proud to be working with SAS to deliver complete business solutions around the five pillars of SAS’ software portfolio – analytic intelligence, business intelligence, customer intelligence, data integration and grid computing. We have made the appropriate investments over the years to ensure that we are able to handle even the most complex business endeavors.“
— Dave Lasseter, Vice President Sales, UNIX Platforms.

Partner Overview
Mainline Information Systems has joined the SAS® Alliance as both a SAS Reseller and a SAS consulting partner. In so doing, Mainline is not only well-positioned to offer customers the finest in SAS software solutions, but also possesses the skills necessary to properly implement these solutions in customers' environments.

In the Spotlight SAS, Mainline Partner to Drive Mid-Market Business Intelligence Sales Mainline becomes newest reseller to join SAS' Channel Partner program.

And, as IBM’s top U.S. Solutions Provider and Reseller, Mainline can also provide the hardware platforms on which to run your new SAS applications — platforms that have been tested and optimized to deliver the highest levels of performance and reliability that you would expect from enterprise-class systems.

At Mainline, we believe that bundling hardware, software, services and financing into a single offering alleviates the troublesome issues that typically occur when you have multiple diverse companies involved in a single project. We believe in one vendor, one provider and one responsible company to make it work. That is our commitment, and that is why organizations do business with Mainline.

A True Platform for Business Intelligence
The SAS Business Intelligence suite deployed on IBM eServers provides THE POWER TO KNOW® how to integrate data from across the enterprise and deliver self-service reporting and analysis to everyone's fingertips. So individuals spend less time looking for answers and more time driving decisions.

SAS Business Intelligence is built on the SAS®9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform, which provides an integrated, open and extensible intelligence foundation for creating and delivering accurate, in-depth enterprise intelligence. No matter where your client’s organization is on the path toward evolving its information capabilities, the SAS Business Intelligence Platform can adapt to its situation while leveraging and extending the value of existing IT investments.

Benefits of Running SAS® BI Software and IBM Hardware

• Increase confidence in decision making.
  By providing a single, centralized data repository running on IBM high-performance servers and storage SAS BI Server ensures information consistency and removes concerns about data accuracy. Your clients leverage enterprise data to maximize value, minimize risk and optimize performance.
• Integrate the full spectrum of information access, analysis and reporting into a single system.
  SAS BI Server creates a collaborative domain by linking previously isolated business intelligence application users. Because SAS BI Server interfaces can transparently reuse SAS insights, users do not need advanced skills in statistics or IT support.
• Leverage the power of SAS data access, reporting and analytics directly from Microsoft® Word or Microsoft Excel.
  The SAS BI Server is integrated into Microsoft Office applications, enabling users to leverage the power of SAS data access, reporting and analytics directly from Word or Excel via integrated menus and toolbars. This functionality improves collaboration between various types of users by allowing them to share report information and intelligence among multiple applications.
• Lower the cost of ownership and use resources more efficiently.
  The SAS Business Intelligence platform, deployed on IBM infrastructure, reduces the costs associated with mixed vendor BI solutions by eliminating the need for custom built system integration. With SAS BI Server, integration is built in from the beginning, enabling IT organizations to complement out-of-the-box solutions. This eliminates the need to have multiple administrators trained on multiple BI vendor technologies with different reporting paradigms, terminologies and release cycles.

Built for the future and tested in today’s most demanding enterprise environments, the IBM eServer family of computers is designed to deliver the performance, availability, scalability, flexibility, security and manageability needed for applications ranging from mission-critical to compute-intensive. This gives the added assurance that your SAS application environment will provide the level of operation that you would expect from 24/7 business community.