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SAS Institue exploits Intels new Pentium III Xeon processor SAS Institute, the market leader in information delivery software, is exploiting the power of Intel’s new Pentium� III Xeon� processor to improve significantly the performance of its data warehousing and data mining applications that involve database access. The new processor highlights the performance, flexibility and scalability of SAS Institute’s client/server model powered by Pentium III Xeon processor-based servers for tasks such as Web-based reporting, querying remote data from a customer data warehouse, and decision support analysis and forecasting. SAS Institute is partnering with IBM and SCO to emphasise support for the new processor in the IBM Intellistation and IBM Netfinity servers, running both Windows NT 4.0, SCO Unixware, and IBM DB2. "SAS Institute is focused on delivering intelligent and complete data warehousing and decision support solutions to companies worldwide" said Mike Pope, director of the enterprise software programme at Intel. "These SAS Institute solutions, powered by new Pentium III Xeon processor-based servers, provide organisations with a competitive advantage by enabling business managers and analysts to access and analyse corporate data on a more scalable and performance-enhanced environment." SAS Institute has been an early tester of a number of Intel’s processors (Pentium, Pentium II, and Pentium III Xeon) and continues to evaluate Intel’s future processors, including the Merced processor scheduled for release in mid-2000. The Institute has also profiled succeeding versions of SAS� software in Intel’s benchmarking labs, with the goal of optimising performance on Intel architecture.