Research organisation IDC has named SAS Institute the leading data warehouse access tools vendor by revenue.
With the recent spate of corporate consolidations, many businesses require more efficient and effective ways of retrieving data from multiple locations to populate their data warehouses, says Craig Rodger, manager: Products, Strategy and Marketing, SAS Institute, SA.
He believes this market condition has contributed towards propelling the company to the forefront of the market. "SAS has tools that make it easy for customers to access data from virtually any database or platform, including enterprise applications," he says.
In its August 2003 report titled, 'Worldwide Data Warehousing Tools Forecast and Analysis, 2003-2007', IDC notes that SAS continues to lead in the data warehouse access tools market.
IDC defines data warehouse access tools as those that enable end-users to access and analyse information stored in the data warehouse.
"SAS has not only one of the broadest portfolios of business analytics software, but importantly holds market leadership positions in several segments of the market including data warehouse access," says Dan Vesset, research manager for IDC.
"The breadth of tools and applications provided by SAS has the potential to enable organisations to decrease the complexity of software integration and ongoing maintenance costs," adds Vesset.
SAS ETLQ (Extraction, Transformation, Load integrated with Data Quality) is the integration platform that enables retrieval of data from any source including a variety of relational, non-relational and other information sources.
In addition, SAS's access technology features data surveyors and metadata exploitation tools that allow users to understand complex enterprise application data structures and more easily populate data warehouses.
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