Evaluation based on ability to execute and completeness of vision
Sydney (February 6, 2008) – SAS, the leader in business intelligence,
has been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms,
2008,¹ by Gartner, Inc.
“SAS customers clearly embrace our vision,” said Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at SAS. “We not
only offer a robust platform, but also business-specific applications, such as financial services fraud detection and retail
merchandise replenishment, that fully exploit SAS’ power.”
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."
With award-winning analytics and data integration, SAS® Business Intelligence helps organisations, including 96 of the Fortune
100, understand the past, monitor the present and quickly predict outcomes to meet any performance objective, such as maximising
shareholder value, predicting inventory levels or monitoring defects.
“SAS offers an unmatched breadth of capabilities now deployed at over 43,000 customer sites worldwide,” said Davis. “SAS innovation
continues with new, powerful visualization capabilities. Now, customers can view information in highly intuitive, visual formats.
Our visualization takes analytics to the next level,” said Davis.
SAS also speeds delivery of business intelligence throughout all levels of organisations. The SAS In-Database initiative, announced
with Teradata Corp., will enable businesses to run and optimise key aspects of SAS business intelligence solutions and analytic
processes within leading relational database systems. The result? Decision makers will have faster access to results, and better
insights.
ABOUT THE MAGIC QUADRANT
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The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific
time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria
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or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select
only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely
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* Gartner, Inc.. Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008, James Richardson, Kurt Schlegel, Bill Hostmann and Neil McMurchy, February 1, 2008.
ABOUT SAS
SAS is the leader in business intelligence and analytical software and services.
Customers at 43,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight
from data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable
relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations;
research breakthroughs; and better products and processes. Only SAS offers leading data
integration, storage, analytics and business intelligence applications within a
comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers
around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. www.sas.com
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