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SAS rated number one in four categories by readers of Intelligent EnterpriseCARY, N.C. (Oct. 11, 2005) – Subscribers of CMP Media’s Intelligent Enterprise magazine have named SAS the winner of four individual categories in its eighth annual Readers’ Choice Awards for Best IT Products. SAS, the leader in business intelligence, is the world’s largest privately held software company. The magazine’s 80,000-plus subscribers selected SAS as the winner in four individual categories: Best Data Mining Toolset (SAS® Enterprise Miner™); Best Text Mining Toolset (SAS Text Miner, tied with IBM); Best Statistical Analysis Toolset (SAS/STAT®); and Best Web/Clickstream Analytics (SAS Web Analytics). SAS also received the highest overall Customer Satisfaction Score from readers in this year’s voting, tied with a product from Salesforce.com, for SAS Web Analytics. Readers gave SAS an 87 percent satisfaction score for SAS Web Analytics, finishing tied for the highest percentage of satisfaction than all other products evaluated among 39 technology categories. Voting was open exclusively to Intelligent Enterprise subscribers – C-level executives, IT directors and top applications development managers, among others – who shared opinions about their criteria for purchasing strategic software. The complete results have been published in the Oct. 1 edition of Intelligent Enterprise. “SAS has always been the standard-bearer when it comes to core analytics competencies. They have not only continued to strengthen these high-end analytic capabilities, they have also carefully tailored these analytics with their highly regarded business intelligence platform, creating a powerful and unique combination of analytics and business intelligence that goes beyond traditional query and reporting,” said David Stodder, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Enterprise. “Our readers, many of whom are enterprise decisions makers, continue to recognize SAS as a strategic partner in making better decisions and improving business processes.” SAS has integrated its expertise in analytics – including data mining, text mining, forecasting, predictive and descriptive modeling, Web analytics, statistics, optimization, simulation and experimental design – as well as data integration – including data cleansing, ETL and warehousing – and its expertise with the grid-enabled SAS®9 Intelligence Platform to create an analytics-driven, end-to-end business intelligence offering that no other vendor can match. “Our customers often tell us how much they are benefiting from such a comprehensive analytical environment to solve increasingly complex problems and to make better decisions,” said Anne Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS. “We are pleased to see our analytic offerings received so well. These awards are further confirmation that SAS is making a major impact on the way organizations maximize use of their data, and they validate SAS’ commitment to customer satisfaction.” For more information on the products listed above, check out the following links: About Intelligent EnterpriseIntelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to helping organizations plan and deploy strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. Intelligent Enterprise empowers 80,000 Business Application Strategists charged with unlocking the value of strategic information, setting, managing and running their enterprise business processes to provide collaborative information delivery that drives strategic decision making. In addition to its print reach, IntelligentEnterprise.com provides the latest news and information along with several vertical channels and infocenters.
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