Business Intelligence Companies Framework Software Solutions: Sun Solution Center for SAS Competency is now open. Learn how Sun and SAS Institute can help you to leverage your business intelligence investments.

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In 2005 45% of new SAS business on UNIX was done on SUN Solaris servers. Sun offers a great platform for SAS deployments:

• Enterprise strength hardware, with massive scalability, mainframe like RAS and flexible resource management.
• Solaris 10 includes more than 600 features that make it the most efficient, secure, and reliable operating system ever built.
• 64 bit prove architecture and mature multi tasking and multi threading implementation for excellent performance and throughput.

To further its investment with SAS, Sun has recently announced the opening of The Sun Solution Center for SAS Competency in its Menlo Park Campus. This is a collaborative effort between Sun and SAS Institute on delivering technology. It brings "high-value" ISV consulting expertise for our customers and partners by delivering proven Performance & Sizing characterization and Architecture & Design of the total customer landscape. "To address the significant market growth of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies, the Sun Solution Center is making joint investments with SAS Institute on delivering high-value ISV consulting expertise for our customers and partners." Graham Steven, Sr. Director Sun Solution Center

Available only to Executive Members of Sun's Partner Advantage Program, the Sun Solution Center offers many benefits to its preeminent Partners like SAS. The Sun Solution Center for SAS Competency offers dedicated, high level, strategic account planning; pre-sales services; and solution development expertise designed to mitigate not only SAS's risk, but also their customer's risk and time-frames associated with implementing a new solution.