Hong Kong (May 30, 2006) - As the first technology vendor to supply full spectrum of SOA for every aspect of business intelligence, including data, analytic, reporting and composite services for business areas, SAS, the leader in business intelligence (BI), announced new initiatives to extend its data integration capabilities to support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
The new initiatives include the introduction of a new customer data integration (CDI) technology, which enables companies to intelligently synchronize, consolidate and manage customer information from across an enterprise in an effort to create a single view of the customer. SAS' CDI offering delivers more than 100 data services out of the box that can be exposed in a SOA, including granular services and services bundles that combine to execute a complete business function. Enterprises who are deploying the customer intelligence solution on SAS 9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform will be able to enjoy this new technology.
SAS is also providing a new real-time data quality solution, based on SOA that allows organizations to link data quality with their operational applications through the use of Web services to improve data quality from the start and save the cost of having to tidy it up later.
SAS currently provides data quality and data cleansing services that can be embedded into operational applications. Under this technology, organizations can identify and correct data errors "in stream" for transactional applications in real-time.
"SAS has earned a well-deserved reputation for providing technologies and solutions that integrate with our customers' IT environments. SAS is fully SOA-compliant, already delivering the widest range of services on the market today with the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform and solutions," said Edvan Chan, General Manager, SAS Hong Kong and South China. "SAS' support to SOA can help businesses bring together data integration technologies typically needed in real time for operational business applications with technologies needed for business intelligence and decision support."
"In 2006 and beyond, we will continue to enhance our SOA-based Enterprise Intelligence Platform and solutions and deliver collections of services using the right technology targeted to fully meet our customers' needs," Chan added.
SAS is increasing its research and development investment in data integration by 15 percent each in 2006 and 2007 to help advance a universal data integration platform that helps companies reduce information management cost and complexity.
The SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform is built on a SOA that brings together Data Integration, Intelligence Storage, Analytic Intelligence and Business Intelligence on one comprehensive platform. The benefit of SAS' complete platform is that it allows line-of-business managers - such as those in supply chain, customer service or product development - to quickly implement the technology they need and deploy the solutions required to support their business processes. SAS can also interoperate with third-party services by calling out from its platform or solutions as appropriate.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business intelligence software and services. Customers at 40,000 sites, including 96 of the top 100 FORTUNE Global 500® companies, use SAS software to manage and gain insights from vast amounts of data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products. Only SAS offers leading data integration, intelligence storage, advanced analytics and traditional business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world
The Power to Know®.
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