ProClarity Corporation was a

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specializing in

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and data analysis applications.

History

The company was founded in 1995 as Knosys Inc. in

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. The company was renamed ProClarity after its primary commercial software product, "ProClarity", in 2001. ProClarity's software products integrated tightly with Microsoft Analysis Services. Among ProClarity's more than 2,000 global clients were

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, and

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. On April 3, 2006,

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announced the acquisition of ProClarity. The company was gradually folded into Microsoft's

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while a final update to the software product, version 6.3, was released in 2007.ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3 is now available
, Microsoft support article, March 21, 2007 Additional business intelligence components, such as PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010, and business intelligence improvements in Excel were released by the division in subsequent years.

References

External links

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