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SAS listed as a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s Business Intelligence vendor landscape

Toronto, ON  (21 Jul. 2010)  –  SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, announced today that it has been listed as a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s Business Intelligence vendor landscape.

“SAS has made a name for itself as the industry leader in dedicated analytical applications,” said Gareth Doherty, Senior Research Analyst for Info-Tech Research Group. ”The company has a proven track record in the development of rich business applications focused on specific industries and has been extremely successful at leveraging deep industry expertise to develop industry specific metrics/KPIs and well tuned analytical models.”

Info-Tech Research Group’s vendor landscapes provide a detailed, head-to-head, analytical comparison of products in a given market.  Assessing vendors by the strength of their offering and their strategy for the enterprise, these reports simplify the selection process for IT decision makers and highlight products which should be considered.

SAS Business Analytics is designed to give users the information they need in the format they want. SAS Business Analytics integrates data from across the enterprise and delivers self-service reporting and analysis. IT spends less time responding to requests and business users spend less time looking for information. SAS Business Analytics also offers an integrated, robust and flexible presentation layer for the full breadth of SAS Analytics capabilities, including statistics, predictive analytics, data and text mining, forecasting, and optimization – all integrated within the business context for better, faster decision making.  

SAS Canada customers include Canada Post, Monster Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, and the Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning.

About Info-Tech Research Group
With a paid membership of over 21,000 worldwide, Info-Tech Research Group (www.infotech.com) is the global leader in providing tactical, practical Information Technology research and analysis. Info-Tech Research Group has a ten-year history of delivering quality research and is one of North America's fastest growing full-service IT analyst firms.

 

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SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know® The Canadian subsidiary of SAS has been in operation for 22 years. Headquartered in Toronto, SAS employs 263 people across the country at its Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Montréal offices. www.sas.com/canada SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2010 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. The Power to Know® .

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