SAS, a leading business intelligence provider, has announced it has been listed as the number one provider of data warehouse generation (DWG) tools based on 2004 worldwide revenue.
IDC, the premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services for the global information technology and telecommunications industries, noted that in 2004, the overall data warehousing tools market "experienced its first double-digit growth year in some time" - which bodes well for the future of this market.
While this market had steady growth in 2004 - increasing 10.2% to $1 billion - this was the first time SAS "became the largest worldwide DWG vendor with close to $200 million in software revenue".
SAS was also a close second in the data warehouse information access tools category, which comprises tools used to enable end-users to access and analyse information stored in the data warehouse.
"An organisation's data warehouse is a critical component to its future BI success, and many businesses are coming to the realisation that powerful, easy-to-use ETL tools are the stepping stone to the next level in an enterprise-wide intelligence strategy," said Joe Augustine, manager of data integration strategy at SAS.
"This report from IDC validates the value of our ETL capabilities in the eyes of our customers. Not only has SAS always enabled companies to access data from any source at any time via a simple ETL process, but our customers recognise the breadth and depth of all of our data integration capabilities, which include data quality and the ability to integrate structured and unstructured text into data warehouses."
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