SAS's goal to deliver the first enterprise-class business intelligence platform has been further validated by Bloor Research, one of the world's leading IT analyst and consultancy organisations.
The report places the business intelligence leader ahead of the market with its recently launched SAS9 platform that addresses corporate governance and compliance regulations, improves productivity and performance, and reduces the cost of ownership.
The SAS9 solution is designed to eliminate the complexity of business intelligence throughout the organisation by focusing on integration and the usability of the interface. Bloor Research acknowledges that, for the first time, users are working from a single platform that provides sophisticated business intelligence capability, as well as data warehousing, data mining, ETL, data cleansing and data profiling.
"There is no other suite of technology on the market that has the breadth of capability that SAS9 can provide, coupled with the unique level of integration that SAS offers," said Bloor Research practice leader, Philip Howard. "Combined with the across-the-board scalability and other features that the platform provides, it is clear that SAS has produced enterprise-class business intelligence that is unmatched in the industry."
Bloor Research also affirms that SAS customers will benefit from the reduced cost of ownership and improved manageability that result from the open standards and the single metadata environment found in SAS' business intelligence solutions.
"SAS9 provides a wide range of different capabilities that have been designed to support the needs of different user communities within the organisation, and we can already see the rewards of our unique approach - through both the response from our customers and the industry," said Rob Stephens, director of technology strategy at SAS.
"This is the first such product in this class, and this should give SAS a substantial advantage to move beyond its traditional high-end analytics stronghold to address the general purpose business intelligence market," concluded Howard.
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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 of the 2003 Fortune Global 500 - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organisations 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.