# ProClarity > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/ProClarity > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/ProClarity.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProClarity > Source revision: 1227330037 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Software company}} {{refimprove|date=April 2016}} '''ProClarity Corporation '''was a [software](/source/software) [company](/source/company_(law)) specializing in [business intelligence](/source/business_intelligence) and data analysis applications. == History == The company was founded in 1995 as Knosys Inc. in [Boise](/source/Boise%2C_Idaho), [Idaho](/source/Idaho). The company was renamed ProClarity after its primary commercial software product, "ProClarity", in 2001. ProClarity's software products integrated tightly with [Microsoft Analysis Services](/source/Microsoft_Analysis_Services). Among ProClarity's more than 2,000 global clients were [AT&T](/source/AT%26T), [Ericsson](/source/Ericsson), [Hewlett-Packard](/source/Hewlett-Packard), [Home Depot](/source/Home_Depot), Pennzoil QuakerState, [Reckitt Benckiser](/source/Reckitt_Benckiser), [Roche](/source/Hoffmann%E2%80%93La_Roche), [Siemens](/source/Siemens_AG), [USDA](/source/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture), [Verizon](/source/Verizon), and [Wells Fargo](/source/Wells_Fargo). On April 3, 2006, [Microsoft](/source/Microsoft) announced the acquisition of ProClarity."[http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/apr06/04-03ProClarityPR.mspx Microsoft Agrees to Acquire ProClarity, Enhancing Business Intelligence Offering]", Microsoft press release, April 3, 2006 The company was gradually folded into Microsoft's [Business Division](/source/Microsoft_engineering_groups) while a final update to the software product, version 6.3, was released in 2007."[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934052/en-us 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](/source/Sharepoint_2010), and business intelligence improvements in [Excel](/source/Microsoft_Excel) were released by the division in subsequent years. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.microsoft.com/bi Microsoft business intelligence] {{Microsoft}} Category:Business intelligence companies Category:Former Microsoft subsidiaries Category:Business services companies established in 1995 Category:Online analytical processing Category:Companies based in Boise, Idaho Category:Defunct software companies of the United States --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [ProClarity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProClarity) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProClarity?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.