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Retail executives rank SAS high on overall performance, strategic value, ROISAS rockets up the charts on RIS News Software LeaderBoardCARY, N.C. (Jan. 09, 2006) – SAS, the leader in business intelligence, 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 software (http://www.sas.com/industry/retail) and 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 in retail as voted by retailers. Survey respondents placed SAS as one 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, and 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," said 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 an additional three LeaderBoard categories: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Quality of Service and Ease of Integration. To download a copy of the LeaderBoard (free registration required), visit RIS News at http://www.risnews.com. SAS customers include hundreds of leading retailers worldwide, such as Bakers Footwear, Burger King, Carrefour, The Children's Place, Fakta, Federated Department Stores, Karstadt, Kohl's, Li & Fung Retailing Group, The Limited, Lowe's Companies, Luxottica Retail, Marks & Spencer, Office Depot, Sainsbury's, Sport Chalet, Staples, Tesco, Too Inc., Waitrose Limited, Williams-Sonoma and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM.
SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at 40,000 sites – including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500® – to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world
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