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There are a lot of BI vendors to choose from these days, and they all seem to make the same empty claims. Many companies who initially had high hopes for their investments in BI technology have, unfortunately, learned the hard way that “easy” in vendor-speak often translates to “shallow.” All too often, promises of competitive differentiation and measurable ROI never seem to materialize.

How is SAS different? What can SAS do for your enterprise that other BI vendors can't? Use this Webcast as a first step in learning how SAS' latest BI solution delivers not only state-of-the-art query and reporting – which is the extent of most other vendors' ambitions – but also self-service access to deeper insights derived from forecasting, predictive modeling and optimization.

Register now to view this Webcast and discover:

• Why a SAS customer expects a bottom-line impact of millions of dollars from its investment in SAS' BI technology.

• Why an independent BI consultant thinks that in the case of SAS, easy definitely doesn't mean shallow.

• How SAS gives end-users point-and-click access to capabilities previously obtainable only through advanced programming.

• How SAS' BI platform and simple interfaces enable you to break down organizational silos and deliver consistent, accurate information to decision makers throughout your enterprise.

Angela Hall, Senior Quality Engineer, Tekelec
Angela Hall is a senior quality engineer for Tekelec, a leading developer of current and next-generation signaling and switching telecommunications solutions, network performance management technology and value-added applications. She is responsible for all internal and external measurements, reports and analytics. Hall has a degree in statistics from North Carolina State University and is co-chair of the Telecommunications Quality Standards Governing Body.

Cindi Howson, President, Analytic Solutions Know-How (ASK)
Cindi Howson is an independent analyst and consultant with 15 years of business intelligence and data warehousing experience. She has helped Fortune 500, midsize and small businesses select, implement and optimize a number of leading BI tools. She is the author of BI Scorecard series of articles for Intelligent Enterprise and the newly launched Web site www.biscorecard.com. She teaches The Data Warehousing Institute's "Evaluating BI Toolsets" course. She has an MBA from Rice University.

David Pierce, Associate Partner, Accenture
A member of the leadership team for Accenture's Global Business Intelligence Practice, David Pierce leads and serves as subject-matter expert for cross-industry client implementations that include data strategy and governance, data warehousing, performance management, business analytics, and BI competency centers.

Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS
Chief executive since the company's incorporation in 1976, Jim Goodnight has overseen an unbroken chain of revenue growth, an exceedingly rare record in the boom-and-bust software industry. Goodnight is the chief architect of the company's renowned corporate culture. SAS commits an unrivaled 26 percent of the company's $1 billion in revenues to R&D each year, and its employee-friendly policies contribute to an industry-low workforce turnover rate of less than 4 percent a year.

Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, SAS
Jim Davis heads SAS' worldwide marketing organization and oversees marketing and product strategy for all SAS products and solutions. He has been instrumental in transforming SAS from a tools vendor to the customer-driven software solutions provider it is today. Davis has directed a dramatic increase in SAS' media profile through extensive relationship-building among financial and industry analysts. His division enhances the company's record of sustained profitability by supporting a global sales and marketing force and by coordinating market-driven R&D.

Ready to register? Register now to view this Webcast.				Want more information? View the companion to this Webcast, Optimizing Business Performance, and discover the shortcuts to BI success from prominent industry analysts and BI practitioners. Take an interactive tour of SAS' BI technology. Read a case study about a SAS customer that is using SAS Enterprise BI Server to answer complex questions throughout the organization. Read more about the specific components and capabilities of SAS' BI offerings.