The vision of SAS 9 is becoming a reality.
R&D developed it. Marketing has been talking about it. Customers are using it. And now we're ready to show the world how to go beyond business intelligence with SAS 9. We're kicking off our worldwide promotion of SAS 9 on 30 March by bringing together media, analysts and customers at locations around the world to hear the beyond BI message.
And what do we mean by beyond BI? When other vendors talk about BI, or business intelligence, they're talking about query and reporting of historical data. SAS can do that. But we take it another step by offering predictive analytics - helping customers see where they're going, not just where they've been.
"SAS 9 is the biggest thing that's happened to our products in a long time - it's a revolutionary breakthrough, one that takes us beyond BI as people know it," said SAS President and CEO Jim Goodnight.
"With the rich intelligence this technology brings to our customers, we help create information no other software can. We take away the barriers that existed between the data needed to make decisions and the people who needed that data at their fingertips so that intelligence can become a strategic asset for the enterprise."
SAS 9 is a breakthrough for SAS, for the market and for our customers. For the first time, a software company has taken the power of predictive analytics and distributed the decision-making ability that comes with that knowledge throughout the organisation - regardless of the size of the company, the amount of data, or the IT skills of the employee. The executive and the front-line manager join the business analysts and IT experts in being able to produce the exact information they need to move their company forward. And with the capacity for making decisions in the hands of the people who implement the decisions, things happen faster and with more efficiency.
"Intelligence has become strategic," said Jim Davis, senior vice-president and chief marketing officer. "It's no longer isolated in a niche in an organisation where only a few are able to extract it. It's pervasive. As the world's leader in enterprise intelligence, and the only vendor that can take an organisation beyond business intelligence, SAS sits in a position no other BI vendor can claim."
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