Lecturers win awards
THREE lecturers beat their peers from 12 other universities to be among the first in the country to win the SAS Lecturer Excellence Awards. The awards were given out at the SAS forum held in Kuala Lumpur recently. Assoc Prof Dr Rasimah Aripin from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Assoc Prof Dr Noor Azizi Ismail from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), and Assoc Prof Dr Muhammad Hisyam Lee from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) took the honours...

EON Bank Group appoints SAS for banking intelligence solutions
The holistic Banking Intelligence Solutions from SAS is tailored to the unique needs of the banking industry. SAS Banking Intelligence Solutions will be used to improve customer relationship management, business performance management, risk management, compliance and systems performance...

EON Bank aims to double loan base to RM60b by 2010
EON Bank has set aside RM25 million over the next five years to deploy banking intelligence software provided by SAS Malaysia, the local arm of US-based SAS Institute Inc...

Eon Bank sasar RM60b asas pinjaman
"Kami optimistik bank akan dapat mencapai pertumbuhan pinjaman yang munasabah tahun ini walaupun ketidaktentuan tempoh inflasi yang tinggi berikutan harga bahan api yang naik," kata beliau kepada pemberita pada majlis menandatangani perjanjian antara bank dan SAS Malaysia di sini...

EON Bank sasar asas pinjaman RM60 bilion
SAS akan menyediakan penyelesaian perbankan pintar bersepadu untuk kumpulan EON Bank bagi meningkatkan struktur, kawalan serta tahap penyampaian lebih konsisten bagi landskap data dan organisasi bank berkenaan...

Eon Bank targets RM60 bln loan base by 2010
Lau said EON Bank would invest about RM25 million over five years in integrated banking intelligence solutions from SAS Malaysia, a move that would give the bank a better foothold to grow in 2009 and 2010...

EON BANK GROUP Appoints SAS for Banking Intelligence Solutions EON Invests RM25 Million in Banking Intelligence from SAS Malaysia to Help Transform its Business
EON Bank Group (EON) has embarked to transform its business by adopting an aggressive technology growth through partnership with SAS Malaysia...

EON BANK GROUP Appoints SAS for Banking Intelligence Solutions
EON Bank Group (EON) has embarked to transform its business by adopting an aggressive technology growth through partnership with SAS Malaysia...

SAS launches Sustainability Scorecard
SAS Malaysia has launched the SAS Sustainability Management Scorecard, the first application in its Sustainability Management Suite, to help organisations measure, manage and improve the impact of their operations on the environment...

Maya: Go for green development
The launch, in conjunction with the 2008 SAS Forum Malaysia themed "Intelligently Green" saw the participation of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Malaysia...

SAS environ performance scorecard for firms
While the future of business intelligence and analytics software looks bright, there are a few challenges facing the industry. Foremost is the under-utilisation of analytics software...

Software going green
Actress Maya Karin touches a globe to launch ‘green’ software during the SAS Intelligently Green Forum 2008 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre yesterday...

SAS touts tool to measure 'green-ness'
Business intelligence vendor SAS has launched a product that it says will help organizations reduce their carbon footprint, by accurately measuring and managing the environmental impact of their business operations...

Staying ahead of the pack with business intelligence
While the future of business intelligence and analytics software looks bright, there are a few challenges facing the industry. Foremost is the under-utilisation of analytics software...

Banks to get help with products and services
US-based SAS Institute Inc believes it is in an advantageous position to help banks weather the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Senior vice president and chief marketing officer Jim Davis said the company had been dealing with banks for more than 30 years...

Malaysian bank group chooses global intelligence solution
Malaysia-based AIM-listed ICB Financial Group Holdings AG (ICB Banking Group) has selected SAS’s Banking Intelligence (BI) Solution to manage the Group’s banking operations across twelve (12) countries from its management office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

ICB plans to open branches in Laos, Malawi by Q4
On its collaboration with SAS Malaysia, Harith said the group has invested in the SAS' Banking Intelligence (BI) solutions to better streamline and manage ICB's banking operations across the 12 countries from its management office in Kuala Lumpur...

Daim mahu perluas operasi ICB ke Laos, Malawi
ICB telah melantik SAS Malaysia, penyedia rumusan dan perisian pintar perniagaan yang berpusat di Amerika Syarikat, untuk membantu memantapkan operasi perbankan syarikat ke tahap yang lebih baik di seluruh dunia menerusi pejabat pengurusan ICB...

ICB selects SAS Banking Intelligence solutions
AIM-listed ICB Financial Group Holdings AG (ICB Banking Group) announced that it has invested in the SAS Banking Intelligence (BI) Solutions to better streamline and manage the Group’s banking operations across twelve (12) countries from its management office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

ICB on global expansion mode
SAS offers a suite of integrated banking specific solutions which can glean real intelligence on a fast track from the huge volumes of data which is scattered throughout dozens of systems, geographies and lines of business within the ICB banking group...

Analisis cegah rompakan bank
Ketua Penggunaan Platform Maklumat Enterpris (EIP) SAS Malaysia, Allan Tham, memaklumkan sistem analisis di gunakan Bank Absa di Afrika Selatan untuk melindungi pelaburan pelanggannya dengan kemampuan mengenal pasti karakter cawangannya...

SAS buka pusat penyelesaian
PENGELUAR rumusan perniagaan pintar (BI), perisian analisis dan perkhidmatan, SAS mengumumkan pembukaan Pusat Penyelesaian Terbukanya di negara ini dengan kerjasama organisasi jualan serta pemasaran, Avnet Technology Solutions...

SAS Malaysia to forge alliances
SAS Institute Sdn Bhd (SAS Malaysia), the local arm of US-based SAS Institute Inc, is looking to forge partnerships and alliances with value-added resellers, systems integrators and independent software vendors to extend its reach in the marketplace and increase software sales...

SAS software for sustainability management unveiled
US-based SAS Institute Inc, a market leader in providing business intelligence (BI) and analytics software, has unveiled a new software solution to help organisations measure and manage their impact on the environment, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the world...

SAS expects strong growth in Asia-Pacific revenue
US-based SAS Institute Inc, which drew 11 per cent of its 2007 revenue in Asia-Pacific, expects this figure to grow to 15 per cent this year, as more companies seek to optimise the processing and use of their data and improve the performance management of their business...

Major Malaysian retailer invests RM1.5 million in business intelligence (BI)
British hypermarket Tesco Stores (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd has invested RM1.5 million (US$479, 000), over three years, to deploy business intelligence solutions provider SAS’s software into its business operations...

Tesco guna perisian pintar
TESCO Stores (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Tesco) akan melabur RM1.5 juta dalam tempoh tiga tahun akan datang bagi menggunakan teknologi penyelesaian SAS Business Intelligence (BI) untuk memperkukuh operasi perniagaannya di negara ini...

Perniagaan pintar mudahkan urusan
Menurut Pengarah Kewangan Pintar dan Penyelesaian Pengurusan Prestasi SAS, Sheikh Manzoor Ghani, platform seperti pengurusan prestasi menjadi keutamaan dalam melahirkan data yang sempurna seterusnya membentuk kualiti analisis penting ketika membuat keputusan...

SAS sertai WCIT
SAS Institute Sdn. Bhd. (SAS) penyedia perkhidmatan perisian analitikal, akan menyertai Kongres Dunia mengenai Teknologi Maklumat Ke-16 (WCIT) yang akan berlangsung pada 18 hingga 22 Mei ini di Kuala Lumpur...

SAS, Avnet Technology open business intelligence centre in Malaysia
Business intelligence provider SAS Malaysia and US-based technology firm Avnet Technology Solutions have opened a SAS Solution Centre in Kuala Lumpur as part of an expansion plan...

SAS tubuh pusat penyelesaian
SAS Institute Sdn. Bhd. (SAS) penyedia perkhidmatan perisian analitikal, menubuhkan Pusat Penyelesaian SAS (SASSC) yang bertindak sebagai tempat mempamer perkhidmatan perisian analitikal...

SAS, Avnet set up solutions centre
SAS Institute Sdn Bhd and value-added hardware distributor Avnet Solutions Sdn Bhd have teamed up to open a business intelligence solutions centre at SAS Institute’s office in Plaza Sentral in Kuala Lumpur...

SAS Opens Solution Centre In Malaysia
SAS Malaysia has teamed up with Avnet Technology Solutions to open a solution centre to support its Channels and Alliances partners and customers...

Business Analytics is Evolving Says SAS
SAS Malaysia today sees business analytics being used in a range of industries such as retail, online stores like Amazon.com, loan approvals in banks and media companies...

SAS Malaysia sees 30pc growth
SAS Malaysia expects a 30 per cent year-on-year growth this year, helped by the growing adoption of Business Intelligence (BI) among Malaysian firms...

Affin Bank to use SAS Malaysia solutions
Affin Bank Bhd has teamed up with SAS Malaysia in which the latter will provide comprehensive solutions to facilitate the bank's Basel II framework...

HP, SAS eye bigger business intelligence mart share
Hewlett-Packard has partnered SAS Institute in setting up a business intelligence competency centre in Malaysia to focus on serving the Southeast Asian market...

HP joins forces with SAS
Hewlett-Packard (M) Sdn Bhd and SAS Institute Sdn Bhd have begun collaboration on a business intelligence competency centre (BICC), based in Hewlett-Packard's Kuala Lumpur office and serving clients in South-East Asia...

Transforming Governments
Tech&U speaks to SAS Malaysia’s director, commercial and public sector Khairil Azhar Azizan on how Government efficiency can be achieved with the help of analytics...

Reading Shoppers' Mind
SAS’ customer intelligence (CI) solution was Parkson’s choice in helping them do precisely this. Toh said the main reason for choosing SAS was the fact that the solution was able to demonstrate tangible business value via quantifiable results...

Marking SAS Malaysia Makeover
SAS Institute Sdn Bhd (SAS Malaysia) kicks off 2008 with the theme "Transformation to Greatness" at an offsite meeting at Kuching, Sarawak...

SAS Malaysia sets new direction, business approach
SAS Institute Sdn Bhd (SAS Malaysia) kicked off 2008 with a theme of ‘Transformation to Greatness’ at an offsite meeting here. A 63-member delegation arrived here from Kuala Lumpur yesterday for the three-day event...

Pelaksanaan Basel II Satu Permulaan Baik Buat Affin Bank Memasuki Thn 2008
Dalam pematuhan Basel II, Affin Bank telah melantik SAS Malaysia sebagai rakan kongsi penyelesaian bagi menyepadukan prosedur pengurusan risiko, yang sebelum ini diasingkan daripada unit-unit perniagaannya...

Affin Bank is Basel II-compliant
Affin Bank has hired SAS Malaysia to provide the software to integrate its risk management procedures...

Affin Bank deploys Basel II ahead of schedule
Affin Bank had appointed SAS Malaysia as its solution partner to integrate its risk management procedures, which have previously been separated from the business lines...

Enterprise-wide risk management cuts credit losses
Banks with enterprise-wide risk management business intelligence may potentially reduce credit losses of up to 10% beginning next year, said SAS Malaysia principal of financial services industry Helen Lim...

Business intelligence the way to go
UNIVERSITI Utara Malaysia has signed a memorandum of understanding with SAS Malaysia for a SAS Business Intelligence Competency Centre (BICC) at the university’s premises...

SAS Malaysia Appoints new Head of Channels & Alliances
Business Intelligence solutions provider SAS Malaysia has appointed Jonathan Lee as its Head of Channels & Alliances...

Uptrend for biz intelligence
SAS Institute Sdn Bhd’s managing director Jimmy Cheah said besides banking and telecommunications, the company will intensify its efforts in the manufacturing and mid-market companies. These efforts include recruiting strategic partners that can provide value-added services to customers...

Govt Sector turning to Business Intelligence Software
Leading the market with 31 percent share in the first half of 2007 is SAS Malaysia whose managing director Jimmy Cheah sees the government sector as one of the major contributors to the company's growth next year...

Business intelligent software mart to hit RM41m
Leading the BI market in Malaysia is SAS Institute Sdn Bhd (SAS Malaysia), with 31 per cent market share during the first six months this year. It had a share of 29 per cent during first half 2006...

Skipping meals for charity
ABOUT 80 employees of SAS Malaysia may be forgiven if they feel a little pleased with themselves for having gone without some meals in the past few months...

Manager@Work: Big believer in education
If it weren't for Jim Goodnight's PhD in statistics, the CEO and founder of SAS would not have made the company's first-year revenue of US$138,000. It's no wonder then that Goodnight is outspoken on education reform....

Manager@Work: Happy staff = happy customers
As the war for talent rages and knowledge workers become more valuable, employers are realising that company objectives are better served when their employees are as well. Business intelligence and software company SAS is one company...

Data Governance at the Source
Spurred by regulatory pressures, Malaysian financial institutions are getting serious about data quality for various purposes from getting customer intelligence to detecting fraud...

It’s Not the Data
Traditional business intelligence (BI) deployments are too complex and expensive. Enter simplified dashboard tools that satisfy data-hungry executives' demand for...

Management of data a major issue
Data management is the single-largest obstacle facing banks, including those in Malaysia, in their effort to be Basel II compliant, according to an expert with a US-based business intelligence software company...

Personality: Treat them well and reap the dividends
Jim Goodnight, who was recently appointed to the International Advisory Panel (IAP) for MSC Malaysia, is good at what he does. Goodnight is founder, president and CEO of SAS International, the world’s largest privately-owned software company, and he tells ANIZA DAMIS that "employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers...

Alliance Group banks on BI
The Alliance Banking Group (ABG) is spending more than RM260mil over the next three years to build an enterprise-wide banking intelligence gateway that will help the bank keep better track of its customers' spending and banking habits...

Alliance Bank commits RM260m to business intelligence platform
Alliance Bank Malaysia Bhd group (ABG) has committed to invest over RM260 million over the next three years to build an enterprise-wide business intelligence platform...

Alliance Banking group investing RM260m in IT
Alliance Banking group will invest about RM260mil for information technology (IT) capital expenditure over the next three years in a bid to enhance its competitive edge...

Alliance to build intelligence gateway
THE Alliance Banking Group will invest RM260 million to build an enterprise-wide banking intelligence gateway for future business expansion and enhance customer responsiveness...

PIDM invest in Risk Assessment System for Effective
Business Intelligence (BI) technology adoption in Malaysia is growing at a healthy pace. More business organisations are becoming more aware on how a robust BI system will give them a competitive edges...

Deposit insurance body partners SAS Malaysia
MALAYSIA Deposit Insurance Corporation (PIDM) has appointed SAS Malaysia to provide business intelligence technology to develop leading-edge risk assessment and monitoring tools...

PIDM labur dalam penyelesaian penilaian risiko, pemantauan
Perbadanan Insurans Deposit Malaysia (PIDM) melantik SAS Malaysia untuk menyediakan teknologi pintar perniagaan bagi membangunkan penyelesaian pemantauan dan penilaian risiko canggih. Kerjasama antara PIDM dan SAS itu diumumkan dalam satu majlis tertutup di sini, hari ini...

Edging it with analytics
COULD it be that AC Milan owed its victory over Liverpool in the European Champions League final partly to analytics? It would hardly be a surprise to Accenture's Institute for High Performance Business director of research Jeanne Harris if that was so...