SAS Institute, the market leader in e-intelligence and data warehousing today announced a marketing and technology integration co-operation with Nokia to WAP-enable business intelligence applications. The co-operation reduces the development time for WAP-enabled business intelligence applications running on the Nokia WAP Server. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open, global standard for communication between a mobile handset and the Internet or other computer applications.
The agreement gives a 30-day free trial of the Nokia WAP Server to customers worldwide who have licensed SAS’ AppDev Studio™ applications development suite. Version 2 of AppDev Studio, available in December 2000, will include the Nokia software development kit that enables developers to immediately test their applications on the Nokia WAP Server. Nokia will provide SAS with support and consultation services related to the Nokia WAP server for developing packaged WAP-enabled extensions to key SAS® business solutions, among them fraud detection and balanced scorecard.
“Both SAS and Nokia offer robust, high-performance software for WAP-enabling business applications, and their co-operation will enable customers to more quickly see the return on their investment in WAP-enablement, “ says Jarle Jevnesveen of Telenor Teleservice, part of Telenor, Norway’s market leader in telecommunications data services and media broadcasting. Telenor Teleservice has recently completed a prototype application, built in SAS and run on the Nokia WAP Server. The application has WAP-enabled Telenor Teleservice’s call-centre data warehouse, sending instant notification of urgent issues to call-centre managers when away from their desks.
“In today’s workforce, the combination of mobility and the Internet causes increased demand for always-on access to all types of information and resources", said Gerhard Romen, vice president of strategic software, Nokia Internet Communications. "We are looking forward to working with SAS to further contribute to the rapid deployment of business WAP solutions and to put real-time, personalised applications of high value into corporate user's pockets.“
“SAS is the market leader in analytical software that gives our customers the intelligence they need about their suppliers, customers and the organisation to make critical business decisions,” said Matthew Mikell, Manager of Partners and Alliances for SAS EMEA. "We are very pleased to be working with Nokia, the supplier of the world's most recognised WAP server for the corporate market to further extend the range of channels through which SAS business intelligence may be distributed. This agreement provides our customers with a greater return on their investment in SAS and Nokia software."
"SAS is well positioned to play a significant role in extending end-user access to business intelligence applications through multiple interaction channels," says Luis Leamus, Vice President International of META. " We believe SAS' application architecture which separates the information distribution level from the application code, should facilitate the support of multiple front-end interaction channels. With this announcement SAS enables its users to select mobile or traditional full-clients to access a common set of analytical applications."
About SAS
SAS is the world leader in e-intelligence software and services, enabling its customers to turn raw data – including the vast quantity generated by e-business – into usable knowledge. Software from SAS, the world’s largest privately held software company, is used at more than 33,000 business, government and university sites in 110 countries. SAS’ 1999 revenues totaled $1.02 billion. For more information, visit www.sas.com.
About Nokia
Nokia is paving the way to the Mobile Information Society with its innovative products and solutions. The company is the leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks, related services as well as multimedia terminals. In 1999, Nokia's net sales totaled EUR 19.8 billion (USD 19.9 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 60 000 people.
About the Nokia WAP Server
The Nokia WAP Server is the world's most recognized WAP server for the corporate market, allowing mission critical information from a Web site to be available on mobile devices. It connects WAP enabled mobile handsets to content and services hosted by Web servers or any other Intranet or Internet server securely and cost-effectively. More information at www.nokia.com/corporate/wap
About AppDev Studio
AppDev Studio provides a single interface for the development of thin-and power-client business intelligence applications. AppDev Studio supports every major Web standard on both the server and the client side. CIOs can choose SAS as their standard for business intelligence in the knowledge that the analytical power of SAS can be deployed throughout the organisation, regardless of the applications development and information distribution architecture.
Further information:
SAS Public Relations EMEA
Frances Bell or Anja Noffke
Tel. +49 6221 4160
Nokia Corporate Communications Americas
Tel. +1 972 894 6146
Nokia Internet Communications Europe
Tel. +44 7788 145460 and +358 40 5217844
www.nokia.com