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SAS delivers innovation, enhances proven software solutionsNew retail solution, latest versions of manufacturing, customer intelligence and other solutions built on enterprise BI platformSAS Global Forum, ORLANDO, FLA (Apr. 17, 2007) – Combining business and industry knowledge with proven technology, SAS, the leader in business intelligence (BI), rolled out a new software solution for the retail industry and four enhanced versions of existing SAS offerings. All five solutions are built on the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform, a proven technology platform that brings together data integration, predictive analytics, traditional BI reporting and intelligence storage. The SAS platform and the software that runs on it help organizations turn raw data into intelligence, better business decisions and competitive advantage. “For more than 30 years, SAS has remained committed to customers, reinvesting almost a quarter of revenues – 24 percent in 2006 – in research and development. These five SAS solutions demonstrate SAS’ customer-driven innovation,” said Russ Cobb, Vice President of Marketing at SAS. For the retail industry, SAS has unveiled SAS Market Planning and Portfolio Optimization, a new real-estate planning product that joins the strong lineup of SAS Retail Intelligence Solutions and helps retailers optimize the selection of new store sites via an innovative consumer-centric methodology. By choosing the best site for a new store, retail organizations can more quickly recoup the capital expenses of purchasing and developing real estate, and help ensure profitable operations for years to come. This new solution is a collaborative offering from SAS and its partners ESRI and BearingPoint. SAS also delivered the latest version of SAS Merchandise Allocation , featuring enhanced usability and scalability. It gives retailers the ability to fulfill demand by facilitating distribution of the right merchandise to the right stores and channels. Allocations created through this solution are based on fashion and seasonal trends; customer demand; and store, channel and location attributes. With SAS Merchandise Allocation, retailers can optimize allocations at the item or store level, increase productivity through automation and reduce distribution costs. For manufacturing and all service- and distribution-oriented companies, SAS released the latest version of SAS Service Parts Optimization , a component of the SAS Service Intelligence suite. SAS Service Parts Optimization helps forecast short-term, new-part and lifecycle demand for spare parts. It calculates optimized inventory and order quantities for parts-distribution systems, helping manufacturers maintain adequate stock levels, maximize response times and improve customer satisfaction. For IT decision makers, SAS launched the latest version of SAS IT Resource Management . This solution is the core component of SAS IT Intelligence , which helps optimize the impact of IT on the organization and facilitate effective IT governance. It delivers a single platform for combining data from business systems and the entire spectrum of IT infrastructure along with IT service process data and financial data, incorporating wider business goals into IT performance, and reporting the results of IT initiatives throughout the organization. And finally, SAS rolled out the latest version of SAS Solutions OnDemand: Veridiem® MRM (Marketing Resource Management). This hosted solution, one of several SAS Solutions OnDemand , gives marketers the analytical power of SAS to continuously plan, measure and optimize the impact of marketing activities on overall revenue and profitability. As a hosted solution, SAS manages the solution infrastructure, so companies deploying it need not worry about IT support, deployment, troubleshooting or maintenance. They can instead focus on achieving a higher return on their marketing investments. Today’s announcement came at SAS Global Forum, an annual conference attended by more than 3,500 SAS users from around the world.
SAS is the leader in business intelligence and analytical software and services. Customers at 43,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight from data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products and processes. Only SAS offers leading data integration, storage, analytics and business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world
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