SAS Customer Wins BI Excellence Award

SAS customer HypoVereinsbank (HVB), a leading German bank, has won the 2006 Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Award.

“We are happy for our customer to win this prestigious award,” says Mark Torr, SAS technology strategy manager. “All successful BI projects have to be founded on a reliable, robust and complete data integration platform. SAS is pleased to provide the data platform that ensures HVB can report accurate, consistent and complete information brought together from over 75 sources on multiple platforms to drive its business forward.”

Using SAS® Data Integration Studio, HypoVereinsbank built a data warehouse platform for the company's Credit Portfolio Management division.

“We are pretty much using all of the various IT systems that the IT world has ever produced,” explains Eckart J. Schröer, head of information management. “The easy and transparent connection of the various data sources convinced us. No vendor other than SAS was able to provide us with the same capabilities. Our portfolio manager can take advantage of the successful integration of additional sources that are quickly accessible to them and made possible by our data management solution provided by SAS.”

The Gartner BI Excellence Award is presented annually during the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit. This year’s summit took place Feb. 6-8 in London. Three finalists presented their projects in front of leading BI expert attendees, whose votes determined the winner.

Representing HypoVereinsbank was Schröer, of the bank’s Active Credit Portfolio Management division. He presented his successful BI implementation, in which SAS solutions played a major role.

"No vendor other than SAS was able to provide us with the same capabilities," explains Eckart Schröer, head of information management at HVB.