SAS Institute Selected to 2000 Enterprise IT Dozen; Spanning the Entire Range of Data Warehousing, OLAP, Data Mining, and Intelligent Reporting…

Business Wire, Dec 9, 1999

CARY, NC--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999--

Today, Intelligent Enterprise magazine named SAS Institute as one of its Intelligent Enterprise IT Dozen, a listing of the most influential companies shaping the 'intelligent enterprise.'

As corporations begin to judge success by their ability to leverage their information assets for strategic advantage, the IT Dozen names the leading vendors epitomizing the 'intelligent enterprise.' The 12 most influential companies in IT announced today will be recognized in the Jan. 1, "millennium" issue of Intelligent Enterprise.

In his analysis of why SAS Institute was selected to this year's list, Dave Stodder, editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise magazine said, "Far from the billboard battles, IPO all-nighters, and million-dollar fixer-uppers of Silicon Valley stands SAS Institute, the gentle giant of business intelligence. SAS has added steadily to its product portfolio to become a true one-stop shop for enterprise analysis and information delivery. SAS looms large across the entire range of data warehousing, OLAP, data mining, and intelligent reporting categories. IDC reports that in 1999 SAS owned a 'very comfortable lead' in the statistical and data mining software market."

According to John McIntyre, director of Global Market Strategy at SAS Institute, "In the post-Y2K world, SAS Institute anticipates a Business Intelligence boom -- one that favors solutions over tools. SAS Institute created analytic application solutions for ERP systems -- to help users bring ERP data into their business-critical decision systems. The Institute also developed a package for CRM applications that supplies metadata-driven data mart creation, data analysis, and customer profiling based on OLAP and Enterprise Miner(TM) software tools. And solutions mean service: SAS increased the size and industry domain expertise of its services organization by more than 22 percent last year. SAS Institute is in the final stages of its Nashville Project, a five-year effort to re-architect the SAS System around a new Information Delivery Architecture -- open, scalable, and Web-enabled. Along with providing an open architecture that supports Microsoft's OLE DB for OLAP and other middleware standards, these development efforts will help the SAS software suite of products fully enable CRM, supply chain analysis, Balanced Scorecard, knowledge management (or collaborative BI), e-commerce, and other business objectives."

"Customer relationship management (CRM) pulls the `intelligent enterprise' together," Stodder added, "But CRM is nowhere without the integration of superior business intelligence, streamlined processes, intelligent supply chains, and coordinated applications. CRM and large-scale clickstream analysis will be the emphasis of most vendors' drive to support e-businesses that are trying to understand and improve customer loyalty. Perhaps they could start by taking a page from SAS Institute's book."

About Intelligent Enterprise -- Intelligent Enterprise focuses on enterprise solutions for Business Intelligence. Its print edition reaches more than 100,000 IT and business leaders who develop, manage, and purchase business intelligence solutions and related technologies for competitive advantage. The Intelligent Enterprise Web portal http://www.iemagazine.com offers instant access to information and expertise relating to business intelligence. Solutions covered include decision support, data warehousing, CRM (customer relationship management), and e-commerce. Information about this upcoming issue and the Enterprise IT Award is available online at: http://www.iemagazine.com/99edtcal.shtml.> About SAS Institute -- SAS Institute, the world's largest privately held software company, is the leader in decision support and data warehousing, providing integrated enterprise information-delivery solutions. Founded in 1976, the Institute markets packaged business solutions for vertical industry and departmental applications, as well as an integrated suite of software tools and consulting services. These allow companies to transform the wide variety of data within their organizations into information that business users and researchers need to make better decisions. SAS software and services are used at more than 33,000 business, government, and university sites in over 115 countries. SAS Institute achieved 1998 revenue of $871 million.

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