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SAS Institute announces production release of Open OLAP solution SAS Institute, the market leader in information delivery software, has announced the production release of its Open OLAP solution that gives access from any compliant OLE DB for OLAP client (such as Excel, Knosys, and SAS Institute’s OLAP viewers), against SAS MDDBs – the first commercial OLAP server software to demonstrate support for the Microsoft-defined OLE DB for OLAP interface. SAS/MDDB server software supports OLAP providers on all major platforms, including Windows NT and Unix. According to Richard Neale, product manager, SAS Institute "Our support for the OLE DB for OLAP interface on UNIX and Windows NT machines gives customers a wide portfolio of choices for client access to the data warehousing power of SAS software. Data warehousing, data mining, and OLAP technology provide powerful tools for high-end decision support systems. With the scalable server and the OLE DB for OLAP API, we are attacking on two fronts – more data and more consumers supported by our web enablement software." "This strategy makes a lot of sense for SAS Institute, and has potential for great benefit to customers," said Bob Moran, director of decision support research at the Aberdeen Group. "Now, the SAS data warehouse becomes accessible from popular desktop tools. Openness and multiplatform support will provide customers with lots of choices."