Retail Execs Rank SAS High on Performance, ROI

SAS has been recognized as one of the most important software vendors for the retail industry. In its Software LeaderBoard 2005, Retail Information Systems (RIS) News has ranked SAS high for the overall performance, strategic value and ROI that it delivers to the retail industry through its retail intelligence softwareand for the service and support it provides to the industry.

Through a survey of more than 200 senior-level retail executives with significant IT responsibility, the RIS News Software LeaderBoard delivers a head-to-head ranking of the leading software vendors for retail as voted by retailers.

Survey respondents placed SAS as one of the top three software leaders in retail in an unprecedented six LeaderBoard categories:

• Overall Performance.
• Strategic Value.
• Customer Satisfaction and Recognition.
• Return on Investment (ROI).
• Quality of Support.
• Ease of Upgrading.

"SAS continues to gather momentum in the retail market, from its growing list of retail intelligence software solutions to its list of major retail clients like Kohl’s," says Joe Skorupa, group editor-in-chief of RIS News. 'SAS was very highly regarded among the retail executives that we surveyed for the software and service it provides retailers today, and we expect continued retail industry momentum from this business intelligence and analytics giant in 2006."

SAS was in the top five leaders in three other LeaderBoard categories: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Quality of Service, Ease of Integration.

SAS customers include hundreds of leading retailers worldwide, such as:

• Bakers Footwear
• Burger King
• The Children’s Place
• Fakta
• Federated Department Stores
• Lowe’s Companies
• Karstadt
• Kohl's
• Li & Fung Retailing Group
• Luxottica Retail
• Marks & Spencer
• Office Depot
• Sainsbury’s
• Sport Chalet
• Staples
• Tesco
• Too Inc.
• Waitrose Limited
• Williams-Sonoma
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