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Datatel and SAS Partner to Power High-Performance Higher EducationORLANDO, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- Oct. 20, 2005 -- Partnership offers dramatically enhanced business planning and decision making for institutions Datatel, Inc., and SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced that they will partner in an effort to enhance and leverage Datatel implementations by adding the statistical, analytical and predictive capabilities of SAS. This partnership will offer colleges and universities of all sizes a better way to manage their business processes at both the transaction and decision making level. SAS is the world's largest privately held software company and has been a provider of premier planning and analytic business intelligence (BI) software for nearly three decades. The announcement was made at the EDUCAUSE 2005 annual conference in Orlando, FL. By harnessing the strength of SAS' outcome-based analytics and predictive modeling capabilities, colleges and universities will be able to leverage the wealth of data held within the Datatel Colleague enterprise resource planning solution to not only view their campus-wide business operations, but also manage them for the future. The Datatel-SAS partnership provides an unmatched ability to turn administrative, teaching and research data first into information, then into insight, allowing effective decisions to be made with confidence. "We are extremely pleased about our new partnership with Datatel, a company that enjoys an unmatched reputation for technology and client service," said Dr. Mark Milliron, vice president of the SAS Education Practice. "By joining forces, SAS and Datatel will be able to provide higher education institutions with state-of-the-art planning and decision making software to keep them competitive, strong and student-focused." "Our new affiliation with SAS is a natural extension of Datatel's commitment to current and future clients," said Jayne Edge, vice president of Strategic Planning and Marketing at Datatel. "We believe by providing SAS world-class analytic tools to higher education, Datatel continues to deliver on its pledge, made over 25 years ago, to empower colleges and universities to become effective institutions and succeed in their missions. We look forward to building a strong relationship with SAS." Under the agreement with SAS, Datatel will offer SAS software and solutions that address needs in areas such as financial management, forecasting and institutional performance management. True predictive analysis, utilizing SAS' unmatched data mining and statistical analysis capabilities, will now be offered; the result is a robust enterprise resource planning, forecasting and analysis solution. For more information about this or other Datatel strategic partnerships, please contact Kyran Kennedy, director of Partner Programs: 703.968.4578 or [email protected]. About Datatel, Inc. Datatel is a leading provider of fully-integrated enterprise information management solutions for higher education. Headquartered in Fairfax, VA, the company has more than 650 client institutions throughout North America. For more than 25 years, Datatel has exclusively focused on meeting the needs of colleges and universities, helping institutions operate more efficiently so they may better serve their constituents. For more information, please visit www.datatel.com. 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). Visit us at www.sas.com. (C) 2005 Datatel, Inc. All rights reserved. Datatel and Colleague are registered trademarks of Datatel, Inc. All other names, products, and services mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. (R) indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright (C) 2005 SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC, USA. All rights reserved. |
