ProClarity Corporation was a

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specializing in

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and data analysis applications. 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

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. Among ProClarity's more than 2,000 global clients were

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, Pennzoil QuakerState,

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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

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were released by the division in subsequent years.

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