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SAS is Analytics ChampionOnly vendor to win multiple Readers’ Choice awards in Intelligent Enterprise’s Intelligence categoryCARY, NC (Nov. 17, 2003) – SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced that the readers of Intelligent Enterprise named four of its SAS® products as tops in their respective categories. Winning four out of 16 awards, SAS is the only vendor to receive multiple awards in the Intelligence focus area. For the second year in a row, SAS Enterprise Miner™ surpassed the competition in the Data Mining Tools category, and SAS® Text Miner outranked the field in the new Unstructured BI Applications category. Readers selected SAS/STAT®, which provides comprehensive data analysis tools, as the leader in the Predictive Modeling Tools category, while SAS® IntelliVisorSM, the company’s first application service provider offering, ASP service, led the Clickstream-Analysis Tools category. "The voting process enables our readers to communicate directly which solutions best meet their unique needs for developing, implementing and managing strategic business applications," said David Stodder, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "Based on this year’s results, it is clear that SAS is among the most highly respected software vendors – one that strives to provide our readers with a competitive advantage." "From unparalleled analytic capabilities to data manipulation tools to business reporting interfaces, SAS delivers integrated and easy-to-use technologies that drive immediate results and return on investment," said Jim Davis, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for SAS. "Winning these awards clearly illustrates the high value the market places on SAS’ technology, and we’re gratified by the confidence the readers of Intelligent Enterprise have shown in our products." Through the voting process, Intelligent Enterprise subscribers – including C-level executives, top application development managers, data management and business intelligence decision makers – have determined which IT products best enable an "intelligent enterprise." Readers made their choices among several categories of products in the four Intelligent Enterprise technology focus areas: intelligence, integration, infrastructure and collaborative commerce. The results are available at http://www.intelligententerprise.com/031118/618rca1_1.shtml and also in the November 18, 2003 issue of Intelligent Enterprise. About Intelligent EnterprisePublished 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 80,000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance and maximize the value of customer relationships. It provides both the context and the technical detail needed to take strategic business applications from concept to deployment, covering such interlocking technology categories as: application development, business intelligence and data warehousing, data management, enterprise application integration, enterprise/e-business applications, CRM and customer analytics, knowledge management, scalable server hardware, enterprise storage, and systems and applications management. For more information, contact Tara Gibb at 415-947-6242 or tgibb@cmp.com. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at www.IntelligentEnterprise.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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