SAS, the leader in the ‘Enterprise Intelligence Platform’ market in India announced that it has entered into a strategic technology alliance with CMC Limited, one of the world's leading information technology consulting, services and business process outsourcing organizations.
 
The alliance aims to provide a range of Business Intelligence (BI) & Analytical software and solutions from data integration to intelligence storage, query & reporting capabilities, and analytics using the SAS Enterprise Intelligence platform to various verticals particularly the Government and Defense sectors in India.

The alliance with CMC Limited is in line with SAS's worldwide focus of driving 20% of its revenues through its alliance partners. Both the companies will evolve common solution specific strategy to help organisations gain unique and strategic insights into their customers, suppliers and internal infrastructure to drive value and gain a competitive advantage.
 
Sudipta K. Sen, MD & CEO, SAS Institute (India) Pvt. Ltd. said, “We believe that both the Government and the Defense sectors have huge amounts of customer data residing across their various data sources, that can be leveraged to drive efficiencies and intelligence across the enterprise. SAS India's partnership with CMC aims at enabling these organizations to move beyond business intelligence by deploying SAS’s world-renowned Business Intelligence & Analytical software and solutions.”
 
“This alliance builds on the complementary strengths of the two companies by combining the global leadership of SAS in the Business Intelligence space and CMC’s deep understanding & proven expertise in the Indian Government and Defense sectors," he added.