SAS Institute + Logic Works Partner To Deliver Data Warehouse Building Methodology

Business Wire, March 24, 1998

CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1998--SAS Institute Inc., the world's largest privately held software company, today announced a technology integration agreement with Logic Works, Inc. For data warehouse developers, the agreement will provide a comprehensive guide to building the data warehouse, plus integrated data modeling, data warehouse building, and data warehouse management. This innovative solution will combine SAS/Warehouse Administrator(TM) software's metadata management capabilities and Logic Works ERwin(TM) data modeling. The next version of Warehouse Administrator will integrate ERwin, and will be available later in 1998.

"By joining the SAS/Warehouse Administrator with Logic Works ERwin, data warehouse developers are offered a proven facility for designing, managing and communicating corporate information into the data warehouse," said John Ladley, META Group analyst. "The IT professional can better leverage existing data models when implementing integrated data warehousing solutions."

"Data modeling is a key component of SAS Institute's data warehousing implementation methodology," said Jim Davis, SAS Institute program manager for data warehousing. "The integration agreement between SAS(R) software and the Logic Works solution suite provides customers with an open and complete warehousing solution, allowing them to model in Logic Works ERwin(TM) and have those models populate the metadata managed by SAS/Warehouse Administrator(TM) software."

SAS Institute and Logic Works also today announced participation in the Logic Works Logical Links Partner Program, designed to help partners develop real-world, integrated business solutions that leverage the Logic Works solution suite -- ERwin, BPwin, ModelMart and Universal Directory.

"Through SAS Institute's participation in the Logic Links program, we will provide close integration between ERwin, the leading data warehouse design tool, and the SAS/Warehouse Administrator," said Dan Shiffman, executive vice president of business development at Logic Works. "This powerful combination is a comprehensive solution for designing and building data warehouses and will directly address the needs of our mutual customers."

About Logic Works

Logic Works is a leading provider of modeling and design solutions. These solutions cover client/server database design, data warehouse, and business process reengineering. Logic Works is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. For more information on Logic Works' products and services, visit the Logic Works Web site at http://www.logicworks.com.

About SAS Institute

Now in its 22nd year, SAS Institute is one of the top ten largest independent software vendors in the world, and is the largest privately held software company. The leading provider of data warehousing and decision-support software, the Institute has won DM Review's 1997 Data Acquisition/Delivery award for Data Warehousing. Other awards include the reader-selected 1996 and 1997 Datamation magazine Data Warehousing Product of the Year award, the 1997 Database Programming & Design Database Dozen award, and Software Magazine's Editor's Choice award for decision-support.

SAS Institute provides an integrated suite of information-delivery tools that allow companies to transform the wide variety of data within their organization into information that business users need to make decisions. To make data useful, SAS(R) software collects data from almost every platform and data format; cleans and transforms data into information that users will understand; and stores that information in an open and efficient data warehouse structure. To explore that information, SAS software includes OLAP, query and reporting, EIS, data mining, analysis, data visualization, and application-development interfaces. SAS software is client/server and Web enabled. SAS Institute also delivers business solutions that are complete packages for financial consolidation and reporting, clinical trials analysis, oil and gas analysis and IT service management. Currently, SAS software and business solutions are being used at more than 31,000 business, government, and university sites in more than 120 countries.

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Logic Works and ERwin are U.S. registered trademarks of Logic Works, Inc. All other brand and product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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