Sydney, Australia  (Jan. 30, 2007)  – SAS, the leader in business intelligence, has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for the “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07” ¹ report. According to Gartner, “Leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and can deliver on enterprisewide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis.”

“SAS Business Intelligence is fast, simple and complete, driven by getting the right information to the right people at the right time for better decision making and competitive advantage,” said Jim Davis, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at SAS. “SAS Business Intelligence supplies our customers with a single, comprehensive solution that uses powerful, forward-looking analytics to help them see what's coming and what they need to do next.”

SAS offers the most comprehensive business intelligence (BI) platform in the industry by optimally integrating individual technology components within an existing IT infrastructure into a single, unified system. The result is an information flow that transcends organizational silos, diverse computing platforms and niche tools to deliver new insights that drive value for the organization.

SAS’ comprehensive suite of analytics software helps enterprises reduce uncertainty, predict with precision and optimize performance. SAS’ full breadth of analytics offerings include statistics, data & text mining, model management & deployment, forecasting, econometrics, quality improvement and operations research.

SAS is deeply committed to the success of its customers, annually investing at least 24 percent of revenues into research and development. With a proven, 30-year track record of delivering quality solutions, SAS today has customers at more than 40,000 business, government and university sites in 112 countries.

Business intelligence customers today demand solutions with very specific, easy-to-use capabilities that address issues unique to their industries. SAS has responded with a wide variety of vertical solutions, including anti-money laundering, credit risk management and fraud detection software for the financial services industry; price, promotion and markdown optimization software for retailers; and applications that streamline the clinical trials process for customers in the life sciences.

¹ Gartner Research. “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07,” by K. Schlegel, B. Hostmann and A. Bitterer. Jan. 26, 2007.

About the Magic Quadrant

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