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Aberdeen Group

Aberdeen Group
Aberdeen Group, May 2008

This Aberdeen report finds that while a number of service and warranty management executives are still struggling with customer service issues and escalating warranty costs, best-in-class companies are leveraging warranty analytics technology to reduce warranty claims processing time and reducing warranty claims costs as a percentage of annual revenues to improve customer satisfaction.

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Aberdeen Group, Aug. 2007

This benchmark study shows that forward-thinking companies have taken strategic actions to achieve service excellence by accurately forecasting service demand and effectively planning and provisioning service resources to meet that demand. Such strategic initiatives have yielded 22% increase in first-time fix rate, 18% higher SLA compliance rate, 27% improvement in workforce utilization, and 14% lower overtime costs.

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AMR Research

AMR Research
by Mike Griswold, AMR Research Alert, AMR Research, Sep. 2008

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Bloor Research

Bloor Research
Market Update, Bloor Research, Apr. 2009

Bloor Research, an independent analyst company, has named DataFlux as a data "champion" in its latest Market Update reports in the data profiling and data discovery categories.

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Butler Group

Butler Group
Butler Group, Sep. 2007

"SAS® for Customer Experience Analytics combines dynamic real-time on-line data collection from speed-trap, with SAS' customer intelligence and analytics capabilities. The combination enables organisations that operate in a multi-channel world to understand precisely what customers are doing on-line, and apply that insight across all other customer touch points. SAS for Customer Experience Analytics does away with the need for tagging, network packet sniffers, and Web log analysers, therefore removing some of the expensive pain points of Web analytics." 

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Chartis Research

Chartis Research
Chartis Research, Jun. 2009

Chartis Research positions SAS as the leader in the Operational Risk Management Systems 2009 Competitive Landscape.

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Feb. 2009

Chartis Research positions SAS in top three on the Financial Crime Risk Management Software Vendors Competitive Landscape.

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Oct. 2008

SAS ranks first in two categories of Chartis RiskTech 100 report.

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Chartis Research, May 2008

Chartis Research positions SAS as the established leader in the Retail Banking Credit Risk Management Systems 2008 Competitive Landscape.

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Datamonitor

Datamonitor
Vuk Trifkovic and Tim Gower, Datamonitor, Apr. 2007

"SAS is the clear market leader as it leads technology assessment, dominates user sentiment and exerts considerable market impact. SAS offers a great portfolio of both basic and advanced functionality, backed up by a dependable support capability. Its stable financial footing, superb vision and lead in advanced analytics all imply that SAS is well placed to continue as the Business Intelligence market leader."

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Forrester

Forrester
Paul D. Hamerman with Kyle McNabb and Meghan Donnelly, Forrester, Jan. 2009

SAS is highlighted as one of six vendors that dominate the performance management market and is the only business intelligence vendor with a comprehensive offering.

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The Forrester Wave™, Forrester, Jul. 2008

SAS was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its 2008 Forrester Wave report, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008. In this evaluation, SAS was cited as a leader in Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms.

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"SAS offers a strong, analytically driven solution for relationship marketing."
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Marketing Platforms, Q1 2008, Forrester, Jan. 2008

"SAS’s platform offers best-in-class data mining and customer analytics capabilities. Customer references we spoke with were complimentary about the performance of the current version of Marketing Automation and Optimization."

Gartner

Gartner
Gartner positions DataFlux in the Leaders' Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools.

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Gartner positions SAS in the Leaders’ Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for CRM Multichannel Campaign Management.

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Gartner positions SAS in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Energy Trading and Risk Management Platforms

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Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management" by Kimberly Collins, Feb. 9, 2009

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Gartner positions SAS in the Leaders' Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms.

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Gartner positions SAS in the Visionaries' Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools.

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"Case Study: True ERP in K-12 Education, the Plano ISD Model"
Gartner, Inc., Bill Rust, Sep. 17, 2008

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Gartner positions SAS in the Leaders' Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Customer Data-Mining Applications.

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Gartner positions SAS in the Leaders' Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Operational Risk Management Software for Financial Services.

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"Assortment Planning: SAS Retail Adds Workflow and Forecasting"
Gartner, Inc., Hung LeHong, Sep. 28, 2007

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Mercator Advisory Group

Mercator Advisory Group
Mercator Advisory Group, Dec. 2008

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Yphise

Yphise
Yphise, Dec. 2008

"SAS® Strategic Performance Management demonstrates its commitment to integrating nonfinancial and intangible objectives into enterprise performance management. SAS SPM provides an easy-to-use and easy-to-customize strategy management model that helps manage any kind of objectives. SAS also provides predefined templates according to compliance issues, risks, vertical sectors or business departments; these accelerate strategy definition."

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Yphise, Oct. 2008

DataFlux qMDM is a certified solution by Yphise. It received the "Yphise AWARD" certificate (valid until October 31, 2009). The "Yphise AWARD" certifies that DataFlux qMDM is the best-ranked solution in comparison with the competition. It demonstrates that the solution has the strengths required by large companies and represents a sound investment.

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