According to a report by an influential analyst firm, SAS is the only vendor in the top three worldwide to boost its share of the global business intelligence (BI) market.
The report also ranks SAS as the leading provider of advanced analytics, an honour held by the company for the 10th year in a row.
According to IDC's 'Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2006 Vendor Shares' report, SAS' revenue from BI tools rose to US$678.9 million, an increase of 16.6% over the previous year's sales figures.
SAS' growth outpaced the overall market for BI tools, which increased 11.5% to $6.25 billion. Despite consolidation and increased competition for BI software, SAS was the only vendor of the top three in the IDC report to increase its market share in BI tools, growing from 10.4% in 2005 to 10.9% in 2006.
"SAS' strength has always been in its advanced analytics, which is evidenced by the company's consistent leadership of this BI tools market segment," says Dan Vesset, Vice-President of IDC.
"However, SAS' effort to revamp and more aggressively market its query and reporting tools has paid off, creating synergies among its product lines that are enabling SAS to provide a broad portfolio of business analytic solutions."
For the 10th straight year, IDC ranked SAS as the leading provider of advanced analytics tools, with SAS' 2006 revenue in this category increasing 12% to $381.7 million. The report shows SAS holding a 30.7% share of the advanced analytics market, more than twice that of the nearest competitor. In fact, SAS' market share in this segment is greater than the combined market share of the 13 other advanced analytics vendors named in this report.
"With the recent flurry of acquisitions, enterprises are looking for a stable partner, and the continued and sustained growth of SAS' market share is testament to SAS' decision to focus on customer needs instead of the demands of Wall Street," says Bill Hoggarth, CEO of SAS Africa and the Middle East.
SAS is a stable, well-established BI provider, leading the market in innovation with new solutions like SAS Visual BI software. Introduced earlier this year, SAS Visual BI far exceeds other BI visualisation solutions through a wide range of capabilities organically developed and fully-integrated into the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform.
Instead of static charts and spreadsheets, organisations using this powerful new SAS software can create interactive "data movies" by manipulating an easy-to-use, motion-enabled, graphical environment. Moving from the static to the interactive helps companies explore ideas, investigate patterns and discover previously hidden facts through visual queries.
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