by Analyst Firm

Analytics

SAS: a platform of choice for managing the customer experience (February 2007)
"Overall, it is interesting to see that whilst the others may create niches around the core market, SAS is still probably one of the most competent solutions available, capable of addressing more of the needs of more of the market than the competition."

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence products from SAS, Business Objects and Cognos (October 2006)
"SAS offers substantially more stability and security of supply than either Business Objects or Cognos, both of which are vulnerable to hostile take-over. As the largest BI vendor of the three, SAS offers the greatest geographic reach, and its willingness to establish local offices gives it a far stronger direct representation world-wide. SAS9 is the most mature of the three platforms, and is better integrated with SAS’ own product components and applications than is BusinessObjects XI or Cognos 8, while offering rich functionality across a broad range of platform features."