SAS has been named the winner of four individual categories in CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise magazine's eighth annual Readers' Choice Awards for Best IT Products.
The magazine's 80 000-plus subscribers selected SAS as the winner of: Best Data Mining Toolset (SAS Enterprise Miner); Best Text Mining Toolset (SAS Text Miner, tied with IBM); Best Statistical Analysis Toolset (SAS/STAT); and Best Web/Clickstream Analytics (SAS Web Analytics).
SAS, the leader in business intelligence and the world's largest privately held software company, also received the highest overall customer satisfaction score from readers in this year's voting, tied with a product from Salesforce.com, for SAS Web Analytics. Readers gave SAS an 87% satisfaction score for SAS Web Analytics, finishing tied for the highest percentage of satisfaction than all other products evaluated among 39 technology categories.
Voting was open exclusively to Intelligent Enterprise subscribers - C-level executives, IT directors and top applications development managers, among others - who shared opinions about their criteria for purchasing strategic software.
Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to helping organisations plan and deploy strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. Intelligent Enterprise empowers 80 000 business application strategists charged with unlocking the value of strategic information, setting, managing and running their enterprise business processes to provide collaborative information delivery that drives strategic decision-making. In addition to its print reach, IntelligentEnterprise.com provides the latest news and information along with several vertical channels and infocentres. For more information, visit www.intelligententerprise.com.
SAS
SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at about 40 000 sites - including 96 of the top 100 companies on the Fortune Global 500 - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organisations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know. Visit us at www.sas.com.
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