ALLIANCES OVERVIEW

The SAS Alliance Program in Australia and New Zealand brings together a blend of local and global Partners who play an important role in our go to market strategy. Partners complement our software by adding value through domain knowledge and subject matter expertise, systems integration and architecture, data management skills and third party products. With the assistance of Partners, SAS delivers end to end BI solutions to our customers.

Each Partner in the Alliance meets the same high standards of expertise, integrity, and customer satisfaction. They fit within the following categories:

• Management consultants and strategists
• Systems integrators
• Implementation Partners
• Hardware and platform Partners
• Software Partners
• Outsourcing and hosting Partners

SAS Global Partners

• Technology Partners
  
  • Teradata
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Intel Corporation
  • Sun Microsystems
• Application Partners
  
  • Amdocs
  • ESRI
  • NICE Systems
• Systems Integrators
  
  • Accenture
  • Computer Sciences Corporation
  • Deloitte Consulting
  • IBM Global Services

For a complete list of Global SAS partners, use the Complete partner listing.
 

SAS Local Partners

• Australia
  
  • Agility
  • Altis Consulting
  • Business Minds
  • DWSA
  • Frog Analytics
  • MHM Partners
  • Kohlbahdin
  • Sysware
  • Taylor Fry
  • UXC
  • 451 Consulting


• New Zealand
  
  • Altis Consulting
  • KLA
  • Knoware
  • Offlode

Agility

Agility Consulting is a Financial Management Consulting firm that specialises in the provision of high quality, high-value business intelligence solutions. Our guiding principle is to help our clients improve their performance by identifying and leveraging value out of their businesses – i.e. from products, customers, distribution channels and business processes.

We focus on customising tools such as Activity Based Costing, Balanced Scorecards and Process Improvement to the specific requirements of each client. At Agility we utilise our kitbag of ideas and tools to understand their issues and supply a solution that adapts to the needs of the organisation. It is a niche area that demands focussed expertise and experience.

Altis Consulting

Altis Consulting is an experienced specialist Information Management consulting firm in Australia and New Zealand, with extensive experience in the areas of Data Management, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Altis Consulting have been focussed on Information Management since its inception in 1998. With 80+ permanent staff in five offices (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Auckland and Wellington), Altis Consulting is well positioned to help customers develop an Information Management strategy, execute on the strategy, and support and maintain the ongoing solution.

Altis Consulting places a strong emphasis on bringing its experience to bear in all projects. To help with this goal, Altis Consulting have developed their own Project Delivery Framework based on best practice developed over hundreds of client engagements across many industry sectors.
 

Business Minds

BusinessMinds is a management consulting firm and, through its partnership with SAS, aims to create insight info information for decision makers at all levels within their organisation.

Founded in Denmark, BusinessMinds is the leading Business Intelligence consulting firm in the Nordic area offering practical experience from diverse projects across most industries. The company has almost 20 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Performance Management.

Services offerings include:

• International business intelligence and data warehouse experience
• Industry knowledge and experience in banking, insurance, credit institutions, telecommunications, government, universities, shipping, airlines, logistics, pharmaceutical, postal and manufacturing.
• Linking business processes and IT-competences to sustainable reporting platforms
• BI strategy, Basel-II, CRM, performance management, data mining, architecture, modelling, ETL, methodology, standardization, education
• Australian experience.

DWSA

Founded in 1992 in Western Australia, Data Warehousing Services (Australia) [DWSA] has been designing, building and supporting data warehouse projects for government departments, mining companies, banks, insurance companies, retail and telecommunications providers for over 10 years. DWSA opened offices in Sydney in 1999 and Melbourne in 2000 and expanded operations to provide permanent operations support capability for it’s clients.

DWSA is a services company specializing in the development of a broad range of data exploitation solutions. We make use of advanced automation technologies that allow us to solve many of the obstacles that have prevented organizations from realizing the full value of their investment in data warehousing. While the technologies represent a powerful new generation of data warehousing services, it runs across most environments and is capable of interfacing with most existing tools and system components of a data warehousing environment. We reuse your existing investment in data warehouse and reporting solutions to deliver higher performance at reduced operational costs. Using our custom designed toolset based on SAS software, DWSA provides high performance highly scalable data warehouse solutions.

Frog Analytics specialises in Customer Analytics, Marketing and Technology providing customers with pre-built or custom business content as well as software tools. We assist customers to leverage their software assets (SAS modelling, segmentation, marketing campaign management) to extract full value and take advantage of our business experience and products.

KLA

KLA is a boutique consulting firm with 22 years experience and turnkey solutions in business intelligence. Their best of breed partnership with SAS offers skills in customer value, cost analysis, segmentation and pricing. Their customer base extends across Banking, Insurance, Airlines, Telecommunications, Government and IT sectors.

Expertise covers:

• Business & Market Analysis: development & implementation of strategies and tactics that increase both the customer base and revenues
• Alternative Business Models: evaluation and development of new strategic and structural options
• Niche Customer & Market Segmentation: including analysis of customer behaviour and its application to the business strategies/tactics
• Customer, Product & Channel Profitability and Improvement: including ABC/ABM and Value Chain Analysis to determine improvements e.g. effectiveness of sales conversion rates and efficiency in service processing
• Pricing & Revenue Management: including transfer pricing models
• Sales & Branch Network Management: planning branch networks and national sales teams including sales territories, staff numbers, commissions and targets. Daily management of sales teams and results
• IT System Planning: business process improvement that includes specialist experience in customer database management, customer relationship management and management reporting/data warehousing
   

Kohlbahdin

www.kohlbahdin.com.au

Incorporated in 1994, and servicing Government Agencies and Corporate Commercial entities throughout Australia, Kohlbahdin Pty Ltd is a successful Consulting Services business based in Canberra. Kohlbahdin helps customers improve the effective enterprise-wide management of, and value gained, from IT investments, corporate governance and ITIL, COBIT or ISO20000 processes.

The key SAS solution that Kohlbahdin specialises in is SAS IT Intelligence, covering management issues around both the traditional IT data centre and the evolving "hypervisor" based virtual data centre. Skilled and experienced in multiple platforms, from the traditional mainframe to the modern hypervisor, our core service specialties include:

• SAS IT Resource Management, IT Metrics, IT Dashboard, KPI reporting
• Forecast analytics and predictive modelling of future IT resource consumption
• Enterprise IT Capacity Management, Performance Management, Cost Allocation and Recovery (hypervisor & traditional)
• SAS Intelligence Platform installation & performance troubleshooting
• Green IT analysis and reporting
• Cost/Benefit & ROI analysis
• Training

Kohlbahdin is a VMWare technology alliance partner and a SAS Institute services alliance partner, which means that we pay particular attention to providing assistance and services to customers who have invested in software from these vendors.

Knoware

Knoware is a Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing consultancy company.

We have more than two decades of experience helping large organisations, in the public and private sectors, to make sense of their data, and gain reliable quality information.

Based in Wellington, Knoware has a team of highly experienced Business Intelligence professionals to design, develop and implement BI solutions – whatever the size. As a SAS Business Partner, our consultants all have several years of SAS experience.

We ensure that organisations have the sound data infrastructure on which to build their Business Intelligence systems. Knoware services cover:

• Effective Business Intelligence solutions
• Full range of Data Warehousing services including implementation and support
• Information delivery using a variety of technologies, including web portals
• Establishing productive SAS Version 9 environments, for analytical and information delivery work
• Data analysis and reporting
• Information management reviews and implementations

mhm partners

mhm has partnered with SAS to deliver world class business solutions backed by a Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Service Delivery Framework. mhm offers SAS expertise to their customers in Enterprise Information; Data Transformation, Integration, Modelling and Management; Warehouse Design and Development; and integrated ERP. Their consulting services and solutions cover Financial Management, Performance Management, Budgeting and Forecasting. The mhm team also specialises in business process review and management.

Offlode

Sysware

Sysware’s business intelligence consultancy group delivers data warehousing and business intelligence services to IT and business departments in the private and public sectors. Proud to have partnered with SAS for the last twenty years, we offer solutions and recruitment services to our clients in New Zealand and Australia . Our offices are based in Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia.

We are committed to helping our clients apply the full power of their SAS technology and gain real returns from their investment.

We provide a wide range of essential BI services, including: data integration, data cleansing and transformation, customer analytics, data mining, statistical and risk analysis, predictive modelling, campaign marketing, report development and automation, code documentation, proubleshooting and fault diagnosis, permanent and short-term recruitment services

Taylor Fry

Taylor Fry is an actuarial consulting company specialising in actuarial, financial modelling and statistical advice to business and government. Our reputation has been built around the application of statistical and data mining methods to a wide variety of established and new areas.

We are known for developing new techniques to solve complex business problems.

Our team is experienced in using SAS - Base, SAS Stat and SAS Enterprise Miner - across large datasets in a wide variety of applications.

We are innovative, rigorous and clear communicators. For more information on who we are and what we do, go to our website at www.taylorfry.com.au.

UXC

UXC delivers Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions using the power of SAS software.

The applications include reporting, data warehousing, data management, budgeting, forecasting and planning, business analytics, dashboards and scorecards.

Our people are our success and we seek to provide the very best in our chosen disciplines.

UXC Performance Management:

• Is one of the largest Performance Management and BI specialist practices in Australia
• Is backed by UXC Ltd. the largest Australian IT solutions company in Australia
• Provides solutions in all major vendor categories – there is nothing we cannot do
• Consultants work towards one of the five recognised SAS credentials, slanted towards the SAS Certified Warehouse Development Specialist.
• Consultants have expertise in SAS Data Integration Studio, ETL Studio, SAS OLAP Cube Studio, and datawarehouse management.
• Is quality accredited
• Is an employer of choice.

451 Consulting

451 Consulting Pty Ltd have 30 management and technology consultants located in Brisbane and Sydney, servicing customers in all sectors of the Australian and New Zealand markets. 451 Consulting assist organisations to convert Strategy Into Action and realise their goals. By partnering with you, 451 Consulting assists customers to create high integrity between Strategy, Performance Measurement and your Change Agenda so you have a solid foundation for delivering (and measuring) your strategic and operational objectives, supported by SAS solutions. 451 Consulting have focus areas in Strategy/Business Planning, Customer Centric Business, Strategic Change, Performance Management, IT, Program & Project Management and Risk Management. 451 Consulting are also practitioners in the well regarded PuMP strategy mapping and performance measurement methodology.

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SAS is not responsible for the accuracy of such information nor does SAS validate same.