Unisys and SAS Report Huge ETL Benchmarking Gains

Unisys Corporation ( NYSE: UIS ) and SAS, the leader in business intelligence and analytics, today announced superior performance of Unisys ES7000 servers running SAS® software, as proven by the first-ever hardware platform benchmark for SAS Enterprise ETL Server. Together, Unisys and SAS meet the most challenging business requirements for delivering high-performance, scalable, end-to-end business intelligence and analytic solutions.

ETL ( Extract, Transform, and Load ) is the foundation of BI, performing the resource-intensive “heavy lifting” for analytics and BI applications, which are only as effective as the information available in data warehouses and data marts. For example, large financial institutions must access diverse data stores, update and manage growing amounts of data, perform updates more frequently with a smaller window of time, and cleanse and transform data into consistent intelligence. As all this data grows, the window of time to process it does not. Therefore, organizations need enough power to process larger amounts of data within very limited amounts of time.

This benchmark is the first of its kind for SAS and will begin a series of benchmarks on all SAS hardware platforms. Through collaborative benchmark testing and engineering, Unisys and SAS lower implementation risk by validating optimal performance, as well as by creating best practices in system sizing and configuration to meet SAS’ high-performance requirements. These test results prove that SAS Enterprise ETL Server running on an ES7000 server can address very large-scale ETL processing requirements on a single Microsoft Windows platform.

“Unlike transactional processing environments, which are predictable and measurable by nature, business intelligence requirements are highly variable and unique to each organization,” said Don Hatcher, vice president of the SAS Enterprise Excellence Center. “In evaluating and choosing the right enterprise intelligence platforms, it’s essential to examine and optimize all aspects of the process for initial and long-term performance consistency. That’s where these benchmarking results prove the most valuable.”

Delivering the power of SAS across an enterprise means addressing a broad range of business issues and technical demands. Today’s ETL processes need to support global business needs in a 24/7 operation. Therefore, updates need to be completed in much smaller timeframes. Decision makers responding to competitive pressures and customer demands need information in near-real time. ETL performance is a critical success factor for enterprise business intelligence.

“No matter how demanding the enterprise BI initiative, Unisys and SAS optimized solutions will enable it to succeed,” says Mike Thomas, vice president, Global Solutions at Unisys. “This first-ever benchmark goes beyond typical competitor test results that comprise only bulk load and simple data transformation. Our joint customers can be confident in Unisys and SAS ability to handle their large-scale ETL processing requirements.”

This test represents the beginning of a series of ETL benchmarks for the breadth of SAS platform hardware partners.

For a copy of the complete benchmark results, go to unisys.com/es7/etl-benchmark.

About SAS
SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites – including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500® – to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know®. Visit SAS at sas.com.

About Unisys
Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our people combine expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

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Contacts Chris Larkin, Unisys, 610-648-2649
chris.larkin@unisys.com

Bobbi Harris, SAS Institute Inc., 919-531-8463
bobbi.harris@sas.com

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2005-04-18

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