SAS elected to executive committee of Java Community Process programme

Issued by Citigate ICT PR for SAS Institute
Johannesburg, 18 Nov 2005

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, has announced that it has been elected to the Java Community Process (JCP) executive committee for Java Standard/Enterprise Edition (SE/EE) in the 2005 JCP EC elections.

The Java Community Process is an open and inclusive organisation holding the responsibility for the development of Java technology.

SAS is the newest elected member to the SE/EE executive committee, along with re-elected members BEA Systems and SAP AG. SAS will serve on the SE/EE EC for a three-year term and will be represented by Rich Main, director of Java development environments at SAS.

The SE/EE EC is the group of JCP members guiding the advancement of enterprise Java technology by approving the passage of specifications through key points on the JCP and reconciling discrepancies between specifications and their associated test suites. SAS is the only pure-play business intelligence vendor on this committee.

SAS has been a long-time advocate of open standards and designs that address multiplatform environments. SAS' support of open standards ensures its customers have the greatest flexibility to deploy applications in the environment that best meets their unique organisational needs. SAS is already active in many related standards organisations and consortiums, including the Eclipse Foundation, XML/A Council, Global Grid Forum, Object Management Group and the Data Mining Group.

"SAS is pleased to be elected to the executive committee seat of the Java Community Process, and we will continue to support the rapid evolution and openness of Java technology," said Keith Collins, senior vice-president and chief technology officer at SAS. "For years, SAS has been actively involved in promoting open standards. This commitment, combined with our expertise in enterprise business intelligence and analytical software, will ensure users across the spectrum can take full advantage of the power of SAS software for their applications and provide a broader, faster and simpler range of solutions than ever before."

The Java Community Process

Since its introduction in 1998 as the open, inclusive process to develop and revise Java technology specifications, reference implementations and technology compatibility kits, the Java Community Process (JCP) programme has fostered the evolution of the Java platform in cooperation with the international Java developer community. The JCP has more than 900 company and individual participants. More than 280 Java technology specifications are in development in the JCP programme, out of which 45% are in the final stages.

SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at about 40 000 sites -- including 96 of the top 100 companies on the Fortune Global 500 - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organisations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know. Visit us at www.sas.com.

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