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Awards and Recognition


received by SAS, 2005

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2005 Communications Solutions Product of the Year
Editors of Technology Marketing Corporation's Communications Solutions magazine named SAS Forecast Server as a recipient of the Product of the Year Award. Each year the magazine bestows the award on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements.



2005 SearchCRM.com Product of the Year
SAS Marketing Automation 4.3 won SearchCRM.com’s Gold Award for marketing automation for enterprises. Judges chose SAS Marketing Automation 4.3 as one of the "Products of the Year" because of the solution’s world-class customer analytics, strong targeting, segmentation, list selection and multichannel marketing execution.



2005 Customer Inter@ction Solutions Product of the Year
The editors of Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine named SAS Marketing Automation 4.3 as a recipient of the 2005 Product of the Year Award.



RIS News Software LeaderBoard 2005
SAS has been recognized as one of the most important software vendors for the retail industry. In its Software LeaderBoard 2005, Retail Information Systems (RIS) News has ranked SAS high for the overall performance, strategic value and ROI that it delivers to the retail industry through its retail intelligence software.



CIO Insight 2005 Vendor Value Survey
SAS was ranked as the leader in business intelligence in CIO Insight’s 2005 Vendor Value Survey, where 884 IT executives were asked whether their top vendors are delivering the value and reliability they expect.



2005 DM Review Readership Awards
For the eighth year in a row, SAS ranked at the top of the list in the annual DM Review Readership Awards. SAS won in two main categories: Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications, Business Performance Management and Web Analytics.



2005 DM Review Readership Merit Award
This year DM Review created a new series of Readership Merit Awards to replace its former DM Review 100 list, and survey respondents also named SAS a recipient of this award for providing quality products and service.



2005 CIO Insight Business-Technology Alignment Award
The editors of CIO Insight named Quaker Chemical the recipient of the fourth annual CIO Insight Business-Technology Alignment Award. This award recognizes the significant innovation, collaboration and communication that are required throughout an organization to realize a successful business-IT partnership.



2005 CRN Industry Hall of Fame
Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, was inducted into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame. The honor celebrates his more than 30 years of contributions to the analytic software industry, his commitment to education and his pioneering vision of what a workplace should be.



2005 DM Review World Class Solution Award
Winners in the Corporate Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard category, SAS and Brigham and Women's Hospital were recognized for achieving measurable results with long-term, sustainable business value.



2005 Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Awards
The magazine's 80,000 plus subscribers chose SAS as the winner in four categories: Best Data Mining Toolset, Best Text Mining Toolset, Best Statistical Analysis Toolset and Best Web/Clickstream Analytics. SAS also received the highest overall Customer Satisfaction Score from readers in this year's voting.



2005 CRM magazine Market Leader
For the third year in a row, CRM magazine recognized SAS as the leader in CRM analytics, naming it the CRM Market Winner for analytics. In addition, the publication honored SAS as a CRM Market Leader for marketing automation.



2005 Computerworld "Best Practices in Business Intelligence" Award
Two SAS customers, APEX Management Group and Export Development Canada, were honored by IDG's Computerworld with a "Best Practices in Business Intelligence" award.



2005 Software Magazine's "Software 500"
SAS ranked #39 in size among leading companies that develop and market business software, #1 in the business intelligence/analytics category. Rankings are based on total worldwide 2004 revenues for technology companies with a software component. Among independent software vendors (ISVs)– those devoted exclusively to software and related services – SAS ranked #8 for software license revenue.



2005 InformationWeek 500
SAS ranked No. 16 on the InformationWeek 500, a prestigious listing of the largest and most innovative users of information technology in the United States.



2005 AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50
Applying for the first time, SAS ranked No. 44 on this annual ranking of organizations recognized for their best practices and policies that value the mature worker.



2005 KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of the Year
Editors of KMWorld included SAS Forecast Server in this annual ranking, highlighting innovative products that make a significant impact on the marketplace.



2005 Manufacturing Business Technology Global 100
Editors of this magazine placed SAS at No. 20 overall in its Global 100 list of leading IT and enterprise providers for manufacturing and supply chain solutions. SAS was also spotlighted as the leading vendor in performance management, based on total company revenues.



2005 Frost & Sullivan "Asia Pacific BI Vendor of the Year"
For the second consecutive year, SAS Asia Pacific was named the top BI vendor in the region by Frost & Sullivan, a leading global growth consulting firm.



2005 Computer Business Review (CBR) "Top 10 Most Influential Business Intelligence Vendors"
For the second consecutive year, SAS was included in this annual ranking of BI software vendors as evaluated by CBR journalists and sector analysts.



2005 Computer Business Review (CBR) "Top 10 Most Influential Enterprise Applications Vendors"
Also for the second year in a row, SAS ranked among the top Enterprise Applications Vendors as evaluated by CBR journalists and sector analysts.



2005 Start magazine's Hottest Companies
For the fifth consecutive year, the editors of Start magazine included SAS in this elite ranking of software and hardware vendors that have developed innovative applications for the manufacturing industry.



2005 Customer Inter@ction Solutions CRM Excellence Award
For the sixth consecutive year, the editors of Customer Inter@ction Solutions recognized SAS for being a true CRM partner with its customers.



2005 Computerworld "100 Best Places to Work in IT"
SAS placed No. 24 in this annual ranking by IDG's Computerworld of the top workplaces for information technology professionals.



2005 The Data Warehousing Institute's (TDWI) Best Practices Award
Export Development Canada was honored for its innovative use of SAS data warehousing and business intelligence technologies to provide a trusted source of enterprise-wide information – giving users a single version of the truth every time they accessed it.



2005 Healthcare Informatics 100
Among the 1,800 companies invited to participate in the magazine's rankings, SAS was the top-ranked business intelligence software vendor and placed No. 29 overall.



2005 Frost & Sullivan Business Development Strategy Leadership Award
Frost & Sullivan, a leading global growth consulting firm, singled out SAS for its well-defined growth strategies, which have enabled the company to become a leader in the global bioinformatics market.



2005 Best Employers in North Carolina
SAS ranked No. 1 in the Best Companies Group first "Best Employers in North Carolina" competition, compiled by the Best Companies Group.



2005 KM World "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
Recognized for its continued impact on the business intelligence community, SAS was again named to this prestigious listing of some of today's most elite high-tech companies.



2005 Intelligent Enterprise "Dozen"
For the third consecutive year, SAS has been named to CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise "The Dozen" listing, which highlights the top 12 most influential IT solution providers. Recognized companies are noted for excellence in delivering solutions that bring higher value to customer relationships, enable greater visibility into enterprise business performance and set the stage for affordable intelligent computing.



2005 Datamation Product of the Year
Datamation readers selected SAS Credit Risk Management as best in the Compliance Software category, while SAS IT Service Level Management received top honors for Network & Systems Management Software.



2005 FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America"
SAS ranked No. 16 this year; the company has been among the top 20 companies – including six times among the top 10 – all eight years that the list has been published. This consistent performance has earned SAS induction into the newly introduced "Hall of Fame," a compilation honoring the 22 companies that have appeared on every list since its inception in 1998.


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