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CARY, N.C. (September 17, 2002) – SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced the adoption of the Predictive Modeling Markup Language (PMML). PMML provides an effective way to define and share predictive models between compliant vendors' applications, remove incompatibility barriers that block the exchange of models between applications, streamline deployment of new applications and protect customer investments.

SAS is working closely with IBM to ensure that SAS’Enterprise Miner™ PMML-based output is deployable by IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring to provide a competitive parallel scoring solution with real time analytic capabilities for joint SAS and IBM DB2 customers. The relationship between SAS and IBM will enable both of the companies to deliver the power of SAS data mining for making business decisions while providing parallel scoring of massive quantities of data directly in IBM’s DB2 environment.

See http://www.sas.com/news/preleases/091702/news1.html