For the third year in a row, analyst firm IDC has listed SAS as one of the top three leading business analytics vendors by revenue.
In its report*, IDC notes that "the vendor with the broadest scope was again SAS".
Scope represents the breadth and depth of a vendor's product offerings across the different market segments of business analytics, which range from data integration and data warehouse management to end-user BI tools and enterprise applications.
According to the report, SAS "... has tools and applications in all nine segments of the business analytics market, but also holds leading positions in several of these segments, resulting in the broadest scope".
Scope is an important element to consider when addressing an organisation's intelligence gap, which IDC defines as "a disparity in the investment in enterprise transaction processing applications and business analytics software".
"Within our Enterprise Intelligence Platform, SAS offers a full spectrum of technologies and solutions that enable businesses to align corporate strategy throughout all levels of an enterprise.
"By providing our customers with powerful products spanning from data integration to business intelligence to analytics, we are giving them the ability to gain deeper insight into their data so that they can have greater confidence in making crucial management decisions," says Jim Davis, senior vice-president and chief marketing officer at SAS.
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