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CARY, N.C. --(Business Wire)-- April 27, 2004 -- SAS, the leader in business intelligence announces the immediate availability of enhanced interoperability between SAS' and IBM's data mining offerings. SAS and IBM are the first companies to deliver production software that implements an extended version of the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) 2.1 standard, providing customers with the capability to rapidly integrate new predictive and descriptive models in operational systems without manual interference.

SAS(R) Enterprise Miner(TM) for SAS(R)9 generates PMML for more modeling algorithms including linear and logistic regression, decision trees, neural networks, clustering and associations than does any other solution on the market. SAS Enterprise Miner PMML has been enhanced beyond PMML 2.1 to support models including SAS formats, datatypes, and functions, as well as additional modeling extensions. IBM has tested the deployment of more than 160 different SAS Enterprise Miner PMML models with the IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring engine.

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