Better Answers, Faster
Companies spent $10.9 billion on business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) software in 2005 according to analyst firm IDC* **. Despite their investments, however, many of these organizations still lack crucial capabilities. They can't gather large amounts of data together and translate it into meaningful information to support their decisions, understand their performance or predict where their business is going.
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But BI continues to be a priority because companies know it has the potential for tremendous benefit. Leading organizations are competing on the basis of analytics – using analytics to identify their most profitable customers, select the ideal price or calculate the best supply chain routing. Current research and the market are validating this trend. Analyst firm IDC says it expects a broader adoption of BI software to continue as organizations embed BI technology into operational applications supporting all business processes.*
At the same time, organizations are beginning to realize that not all BI is created equal.
A comprehensive BI solution
SAS has spent the past three decades developing the end-to-end, fully integrated SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform, which combines business intelligence with data integration, intelligence storage and analytics.
The SAS platform provides a complete foundation for moving beyond simply gathering and storing data to building information systems that serve members at all levels of the enterprise. As part of that platform, SAS Enterprise BI Server makes it faster and easier for companies to create and distribute intelligence among all users, at all skill levels, offering:
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Breadth: SAS integrates functions and technologies from every corner of the organization – from operational and transactional systems, multiple databases in different formats, and all contact channels. Information flow can then transcend functional silos and computing platforms so that accurate intelligence can be created and shared.
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Depth: SAS makes business intelligence available to all who need it, in a way that is relevant to them with easy-to-use customized interfaces.
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Completeness: SAS Business Intelligence provides an integrated, comprehensive, end-to-end platform. Business intelligence success doesn't just happen at the application layer. And it isn't just query and reporting. It depends on a chain of applications and technologies working together from a common data foundation to create a single, verifiable version of the information.
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Analytics: SAS delivers insight and foresight, not just hindsight for sustained competitive advantage. For BI to be successful on an ongoing basis predictive analytics, such as forecasting and scenario planning are required.
See what analysts are saying …
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IDC shows SAS is the No. 2 business intelligence software vendor worldwide in market share.
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Butler Group states that "the SAS®9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform continues to demonstrate its ability to push the BI market forward. The company's latest platform offering demonstrates its ability to deliver end-to-end BI."
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IDC shows SAS is the no. 1 in data warehouse generation and access sales. Read report.
See what our customers are saying …
"With SAS, our BI efforts have a true global reach. We can take information that matters to a manager in China, put it into a single location and then lay that single location onto his desktop. It's unprecedented."
-- Grant Felsing, Decision Support Manager, Briggs & Stratton
"We have data streaming in from thousands of stores across North America and many distributors and suppliers. All that data was becoming cumbersome and difficult to manage. We needed to monitor in-network buying, customer behavior and supplier behavior. And we needed to better understand areas for improvements and cost reductions. Now that we have SAS Enterprise BI Server up and running, we're already experiencing better visibility into our supply chain and realizing savings."
-- Thomas J. Coba, Chief Operating Officer for the SUBWAY brand
"SAS is generally known to have among the best analytics available. Now, SAS' leadership extends to the business intelligence environment with SAS Enterprise BI Server. This solution addresses our goals by giving us the ability use common data access tools to work with our data assets from an analytics and a business intelligence perspective. We believe we can harness the prowess of SAS analytics on top of a common, easy-to-use business intelligence foundation."
-- Kim Bailey, Vice President of Information Resources Division at State Auto
"The legacy system we had did not have the analytics needed, so we began the search for an enterprisewide business intelligence solution. We looked at other vendors but felt that SAS’ powerful analytics, integrated enterprise platform and the ability to support diverse users across our organization was unmatched. We expect the ability the BI Server provides to make faster, more accurate business decisions will improve our overall performance and provide our customers with an enhanced shopping experience."
-- Stefano Gaggion, vice president of MIS at Brooks Brothers
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