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Dulles Research LLC, developer of Carolina™, the first SAS®-to-Java conversion solution, today announced that Discover Financial Services® has licensed Carolina for production implementation.

Carolina converts Base SAS® programs to Java which can be deployed in any Java Runtime Environment Version 5.0 or higher. Business applications include analytics, modeling, scoring, and data manipulation. The product also provides integration with web services, Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS), and other enterprise decision management tools.

Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

ABOUT CAROLINA.

Carolina is a portfolio of applications that converts several products from SAS Institute Inc., the global leader in enterprise analytics. By exploiting the portability, openness, and performance attributes of Java, Carolina opens new doors for SAS development and deployment at

substantially lower cost. Carolina converts SAS code to Java, which in turn may be compiled and executed in any Java Runtime Environment 5 or higher. Carolina enables large organizations to lower their SAS infrastructure costs, improve runtime performance and enhance SAS program integration – all without diminishing analytic productivity and efficiency. For more information see www.dullesopen.com : .

ABOUT DULLES RESEARCH LLC.

Dulles Research LLC is led by Drew Eginton and Yuri Galperin, successful developers of several decision science software companies. Their last company, Marketswitch Corporation, developed the industry’s first high-scale customer optimization platform, and licensed it globally.
Experian purchased Marketswitch in 2004.

Aside from the Carolina family of products, Dulles Research has also developed The Lucid Threat Management System. Lucid is a proprietary illicit network identification technology for intelligence, national security, military, and law enforcement activities. Applications include counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, anti-money laundering, and trafficking suppression. For more information see www.dullesresearch.com : .

For more information, contact Dulles Research at +1.703.766.6366.

SAS® and all other SAS® Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks of SAS® Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. Dulles Research LLC and DullesOpen.com have no relationship with SAS Institute Inc.


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