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SAS Extends Lead in Performance Management; Burgeoning Customer Roster, Expanding Solution Set Fuel Growth
LISBON, PORTUGAL --(Business Wire)-- June 22, 2005 -- At SAS Forum International 2005 today, SAS executives offered overwhelming proof of the company's status as the dominant provider of performance management solutions. The annual European conference of SAS users is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, June 21-23.
"When we met for SAS Forum International in Copenhagen one year ago, we promised that SAS would become the foremost player and recognized leader in performance management," said Art Cooke, president of SAS International. "And in 12 short months, we've proven it."
The proof can be found in SAS' growing roster of satisfied performance management customers. Today, more than 300 customers worldwide rely on SAS for performance management solutions, including Brigham and Women's Hospital (U.S.), Caisse Nationale d'Allocations Familiales (CNAF) (France), CTT Correios de Portugal, Fraport AG (Germany), Mobile TeleSystems (Russia), MTR Corporation (Hong Kong), Noreco (Norway), Progress Rail (U.S.), Regione del Veneto (Italy), and the U.S. Coast Guard.
And the roster continues to grow every day. Since last fall's introduction of SAS(R) Strategic Performance Management 2.0 - the latest version of SAS' core performance management solution that takes full advantage of the SAS(R)9 Intelligence Platform - SAS has seen a significant increase in demand. Worldwide first quarter sales were up 20 percent over the same period in 2004, with major projects underway across the globe in industries ranging from healthcare and public institutions to banking and finance. It's not just a matter of up-selling current SAS customers either; SAS has enjoyed tremendous success selling SAS Strategic Performance Management (http://www.sas.com/solutions/spm/index.html) to companies not already using SAS elsewhere in their organizations.
The analyst community agrees. "In our recent evaluation of corporate performance management vendors, SAS was ranked as outperforming the market," wrote Tim Jennings, research director for Butler Group, in a report titled Corporate Performance Management, A New Approach to Business Control and Planning. "SAS has been able to demonstrate its ability to bring robust, focused solutions to market, delivering a strong CPM solution that has both functional depth and breadth." SAS was awarded best-in-class capability in the Planning, Monitoring, Reporting and Data Management categories, confirming Butler Group's view that "the SAS(R)9 platform gives industry-leading power to fuel even the most ambitious corporate performance management strategies."
SAS is the one business intelligence provider supplying an all-encompassing view of performance management that delivers key insights into every aspect of the enterprise, including customer intelligence, internal processes, financial performance and supplier intelligence. And when organizations go beyond business intelligence to combine performance management with SAS' industry-leading predictive analytics software, executives not only can see what happened in the past and why it happened, they can also use at-a-glance dashboards, filters and alerts to see key performance indicators (KPIs) of what's happening right now and then predict the probability of future outcomes based on their decisions today.
To learn more about SAS' pioneering vision of performance management, see http://www.sas.com/solutions/pm/index.html.
About SAS Forum International
Today's announcements came at SAS Forum International 2005 http://support.sas.com/events/sasforuminternational2005). Held in Lisbon, Portugal, SAS Forum International is the premier international event for enterprise intelligence. It features more than 200 presentations from 140 organizations representing 40 countries and spanning nine industries. Senior-level executives from Allianz Portugal, Direct Group Bertelsmann (UK), Citicards (US), Nedbank (South Africa), Octopus Cards (China/Hong Kong), and Time Inc. (US) are among the presenters.
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 more than 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).
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.
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