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SAS Celebrates 30th Anniversary
When SAS opened for business in 1976, the company had seven employees selling one software program.
Today, SAS employs more than 10,000 people in 424 offices worldwide, and its solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites, including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500®.
As SAS celebrates its 30th anniversary as the leader in business intelligence (BI) – the hottest sector in the software market today – the company anticipates an even greater future.
Going Beyond BI™
SAS has been on the forefront of information technology for 30 years, maintaining an unbroken string of 29 years of growth and profitability. Revenues – totaling $138,000 in 1976 – topped $1.68 billion in 2005. And there's every indication that SAS' growth will continue.
BI continues as a business priority and technology trend. A Gartner press release1 announcing results of its recent survey of "1,400 CIOs in more than 30 countries, representing more than US$90 billion in IT spending" found that the leading technology priority is no longer security. It's BI.
SAS BI offerings – going beyond the traditional view of BI as merely a tool for reporting – are built on a stable, scalable and integrated platform of technologies that include data integration, intelligence storage, analytics and reporting.
"BI is a growth market – the advent of BI for the masses and the nearly saturated ERP market, as well as increasing compliance regulation, point to a high demand for BI in the years to come. SAS is perfectly positioned to meet that demand," says Jim Davis, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at SAS.
Helping customers – for 30 years and counting
In addition, SAS' new global Business Intelligence Competency Center program will help customers maximize their BI investments by building cohesive strategies that address technology as well as people, processes and organizational culture. And a host of updated industry-specific SAS solutions will be rolled out during 2006.
SAS recently announced further enhancements to its flagship BI solution, SAS Enterprise BI Server, including more capabilities for report management and distribution, and additional spatial analysis capabilities through integration with ESRI. The additions allow business users throughout the organization to more easily access and leverage the intelligence in their growing data stores.
"While our company has grown, our mission of adding value to our customers and being central to their success through our software remain the same," says Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO and founder of SAS. (View the video of Dr. Goodnight's 30th anniversary message.)
1Gartner Research Press Release: "Gartner Survey of 1,400 CIOs Shows Transformation of IT Organisation is Accelerating," January 23, 2006.
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