SAS^® Banking Intelligence Solutions

A shaky economy and global instability have forced banks to rethink strategies and develop new business models that will keep them operating competitively in today's high-tech, multichannel banking industry. The key is making the right strategic decisions swiftly. The challenge is bringing together – and gleaning real intelligence from – the reams of customer, supplier and organizational data that are scattered throughout dozens of operational and transactional system silos throughout your enterprise.

Banks all over the world face the same challenges: How can you lower costs while increasing profitability? How can you identify, attract and retain your most profitable customers, while simultaneously decreasing your risk? And how can you create and execute a solid corporate strategy that would enable you to deliver maximum shareholder value?

The answer is SAS Banking Intelligence Solutions. Tailored to meet the unique needs of the banking industry, these solutions offer a complete package for accomplishing all your business objectives, ensuring that your customer relationships, marketing efforts and corporate strategies achieve optimal results – all without the pain of having to develop customized data architectures and analytical applications from scratch.

SAS Banking Intelligence Solutions include pre-built data models, processes and techniques that speed up both implementation and results, giving you a fast track to significant ROI. In addition, the solutions support a "think big, start focused" strategy, enabling you to initially address one or two of your most urgent concerns, and then leverage the same infrastructure to focus on other priorities as needs arise. And because the solutions are built on a banking-specific architecture – the most extensible environment on the market today – you can respond quickly to changing business needs and realize value in each step of the intelligence creation process.

Key business objectives addressed by SAS Banking Intelligence Solutions

Built on more than 26 years of market leadership, these packaged solutions integrate SAS' leading analytical and data management technology with extensive banking industry experience – more than 1,100 banks worldwide currently use SAS' analytical software.