SAS Institute, an information delivery solutions provider, held a forum at Rosebank yesterday to highlight information delivery systems.
In his opening address, MD of SAS Institute SA, Dave Macfie, said he believes the growth experienced by SAS Institute reflects the increasing interest in information delivery systems.
"Meta Group has released figures that show that in 1998, 70% of the information system market focused on transaction processing and data acquisition while only 30% dealt with information delivery systems.
"Having said that, Meta Group believes that by 2003 these figures will be reversed with 70% of the market focusing on information delivery systems," noted Macfie.
Daniel LeBourhis, VP: international of Meta Group Europe, agreed. "Today, we see a fundamental change in the way organisations use information systems. The systems are changing from those that contain information in a database and are not used for anything, to those that are more concerned with boosting innovation through the knowledge creation of data assets."
According to Macfie, SAS Institute expects the market leaders of other IT segments, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, to start competing with SAS with regards to information delivery systems.
"The rate of change in business and administrative processes will continue to shrink. The primary design goal for IT should therefore be to create and implement systems that are able to facilitate this change," remarked LeBourhis.
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