SAS and DataFlux in Visionaries Quadrant for Data Integration Tools Magic Quadrant

CARY, NC  (Dec. 02, 2009)  –  SAS, the leader in business analytics, announced today that SAS and DataFlux have been placed by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration report .¹ 

SAS® Data Integration, a key part of the SAS Business Analytics Framework, eases access to crucial data and eliminates the cost of custom coding for individual integration projects. Problems resulting from inconsistent or missing information are minimized, providing an accurate vision of crucial customer, project or other data.

The SAS Business Analytics Framework is a powerful blend of data integration, analytics, reporting and an ever-expanding portfolio of industry and line-of-business solutions. Organizations can address immediate business issues, extending their use of SAS over time for continued performance improvements. 

“For many customers SAS Data Integration underpins effective business analytics,” said Jim Davis, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. “SAS consolidates data and transforms it into useful information that enterprises can analyze to produce optimal results. Having accurate information, not just unchecked and disparate data sources, is vital for successful decision making.”

Said Tony Fisher, DataFlux President and CEO: "With companies trying to make sense of an ever-increasing universe of data, data quality and data integration are becoming core components of the IT environment. Through our combined offerings, SAS and DataFlux provide the capabilities to manage the entire data lifecycle - and turn data into a corporate asset." 

Doing more with more data

With SAS Data Integration, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization is better able to provide cost-effective services for its 1 million members while meeting regulatory obligations. And the Pittsburgh-based non-profit also reduced the time to process data by two-thirds, despite data growth of 50 percent a year.

“We manage data from claim processing, internal clinical transactions, member eligibility, and financial and pharmaceutical data,” said Mary Doyle, Associate Chief Information Officer at Community Care. “SAS Data Integration Studio’s point-and-click interface is very straightforward; we can now run reports more frequently, which results in better data-driven decisions. That’s something our CEO is really focused on.’’ 

The company can measure clinical interventions and determine, for example, if a patient released from the hospital needs six follow-up services to maintain the discharge plan or eight. More importantly, the Community Care staff can quickly see which members aren’t following post-hospitalization protocols. 

About DataFlux

DataFlux enables organizations to analyze, improve and control their data through an integrated technology platform.  With DataFlux enterprise data quality and data integration products, organizations can more effectively and efficiently build a solid information foundation that delivers a unified view of customers, products, suppliers or any other corporate data assets. A wholly owned subsidiary of SAS, DataFlux helps customers rapidly assess and improve problematic data, building the foundation for enterprise data governance, compliance and MDM initiatives. To learn more about DataFlux, visit www.dataflux.com.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

1.  Gartner Research. “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools” by Ted Friedman, Mark A. Beyer, Eric Thoo, November 25, 2009.

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