SAS Offers the Broadest Scope of Business Analytics Software According to Analyst Report; Analyst Firm Recognizes Depth and Breadth of SAS® Business Analytics Software

Business Wire, Sept 12, 2005

CARY, N.C. -- For the third year in a row, analyst firm IDC has listed SAS as one of the top three leading business analytics vendors by revenue. In its report*, IDC notes that "the vendor with the broadest scope was again SAS." Scope represents the breadth and depth of a vendor's product offerings across the different market segments of business analytics, which range from data integration and data warehouse management to end-user BI tools and enterprise applications.

According to the report, SAS "... has tools and applications in all nine segments of the business analytics market, but also holds leading positions in several of these segments, resulting in the broadest scope." Scope is an important element to consider when addressing an organization's intelligence gap, which IDC defines as "a disparity in the investment in enterprise transaction processing applications and business analytics software."

"Within our Enterprise Intelligence Platform, SAS offers a full spectrum of technologies and solutions that enable businesses to align corporate strategy throughout all levels of an enterprise," said Jim Davis, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at SAS. "By providing our customers with powerful products spanning from data integration to business intelligence to analytics, we are giving them the ability to gain deeper insight into their data so that they can have greater confidence in making crucial management decisions."

The IDC report goes on to state that "it is not enough to have best-of-breed information delivery technologies" and that "complete business analytics architectures should provide both traditional BI and advanced analytics capabilities." With nearly 30 years of analytics experience, SAS continues to be a pioneer in offering advanced analytics capabilities such as time series mining, what-if analysis and optimization.

Along with powerful data integration and storage capabilities, SAS' business intelligence and analytic intelligence tools make up the SAS(R)9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform, which is an integrated, open and extensible foundation for creating and delivering accurate, in-depth intelligence. At any level of an organization, SAS helps decrease existing intelligence gaps and provides a solid business analytics architecture that supports business processes. More information about the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform is available here: http://www.sas.com/technologies/architecture/.> About SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at about 40,000 sites - including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500(R) - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R).

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*"Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2004 Vendor Shares" (Dan Vesset, Henry Morris, Kathleen Wilhide and Robert Blumstein, August 2005)

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