SAS No. 2 in BI Market Worldwide

For the fourth year in a row, analyst firm IDC lists SAS as one of the top three leading business intelligence vendors by revenue.

IDC's recently released "Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2005 Vendor Shares" report shows SAS is the No. 2 BI vendor worldwide. According to the IDC report, SAS "saw strong performance from its Enterprise BI Server product suite, which resulted in a 26 percent growth in its query, reporting and analysis revenue" in 2005. IDC also said it expects SAS "to continue to experience above market growth rates for query, reporting and analysis."

The IDC report also shows that SAS dominates in advanced analytics. With 28.2 percent market share in advanced analytics, SAS has more than double the market share of its next closest competitor. As the report stated, "IDC does not see any serious challenge to SAS' dominance of the advanced analytics market."

SAS takes you beyond BI
IDC noted that "interest in advanced analytics for forecasting, optimization and other decision support techniques is growing as organizations look to move beyond using BI tools only for query and reporting." The report explained that "it's not enough to have dashboards that simply report on what happened. This information is valuable but of limited use. Dashboards should also show context around the information and provide guidance for action."

And this is precisely where SAS sets itself apart from the rest of the pack. While many BI software vendors provide basic reporting on what happened, SAS® Enterprise BI Server and advanced analytic solutions allow enterprises to go beyond simple reporting to understand what will happen and what's the best that can happen so that they can make better decisions faster.

New IDC report shows SAS is the No. 2 business intelligence vendor worldwide in market share.