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

PROGRAM LEVELS

The ANZ Alliance Program leverages partnerships in other countries, bringing experience and assets suitable for our local markets. To ensure the appropriate resources and support is available to Partners, the Alliance Program is tiered at three levels: Platinum, Gold and Silver.

Platinum Partner

Platinum Members consist of global companies that have products and/or services that provide major strategic and critical advantages to SAS software and solutions. Platinum Members and SAS make substantial investments in the relationship in order to build solutions-targeted SAS practices. SAS engages a Platinum Member early in the development process to ensure the smoothest integration possible. Additionally, SAS dedicates to the member a worldwide relationship manager and team to develop and deploy a strategic business plan.

Gold Partner

Gold Members work to support and deliver SAS technology. They are more regional in their market reach and are typically smaller in revenues and resources than the Platinum Members. Account management of these members remains within the geographies and is implemented by the regional or country Business Relationship Manager. Gold Members have programmatic support from our worldwide organization, working in conjunction with the local SAS contact to develop and implement a joint business plan and strategy.

Silver Partner

Silver Members work to support and deliver SAS technology. They are supported in the field by the regions, countries or districts. SAS provides programmatic support and infrastructure via such avenues as partner summit meetings and Web support. Silver Members are charged a program participation fee in return for the support and infrastructure they receive from SAS

SAS Global Partners

• Alliances and Application Partners
  
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • IBM Corporation
  • Intel Corporation
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Unisys
  • Amdocs
  • ESRI
  • NICE Systems
• Systems Integrators
  
  • Accenture
  • BearingPoint
  • Capgemini
  • Computer Sciences Corporation
  • Deloitte Consulting
  • IBM Global Services
• Hosting Partners
  
  • EDS

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

SAS Local Partners

• Australia
  
  • Agility
  • Business Minds
  • DWSA
  • Enzyme Insight Solutions
  • e.Sens
  • MHM Partners
  • Sysware
  • Taylor Fry
  • 451 Consulting


• New Zealand
  
  • e-Spatial
  • Filament
  • 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.

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.

Enzyme Insight Solutions

Enzyme Insight Solutions is a specialist agency that develops profitable and practical customer engagement solutions. Using the latest analytical methodologies we develop bespoke approaches to allow you to engage with your customers across your business, from the most effective possible marketing strategies through store pricing, merchandising, supply chain and any area where customer level data can improve business processes. Enzyme Insight Solutions works closely with SAS to maximize the value in customer data.

E.Sens

e.sens provides effective SAS-centric BI solutions. Our main focus is to deliver and drive the efficient and effective application of data. We provide holistic data strategy consulting specifically tailored to our clients’ business requirements, as well as technical systems delivery.

We specialise in pro-actively developing solutions, and have experience in a wide range of government agencies and private industries across the most widely recognised computing environments.

Our consultants work toward one of the five recognised SAS credentials, with a leaning toward the SAS Certified Warehouse Development Specialist credential. Our consultants have expertise in SAS Data Integration Studio, ETL Studio, SAS OLAP Cube Studio, and data warehouse management.

Aside from technical expertise, our consultants have the ability to clearly communicate strategies to prepare for implementation and on-going exploitation. e.sens understands the necessity to define a coherent, enterprise-wide data strategy that reflects how organisations can capture, store, manage and use their information to implement new BI initiatives.

e-Spatial

e-Spatial specialise in the use of location based technology and data to deliver business intelligence, operational efficiency and improved customer service.

e-Spatial develops enterprise solutions by incorporating the most appropriate combination of technologies for each customer’s specific requirements. Using our expertise and partnering with other 'best of breed' organisations we ensure that a successful and effective solution can be implemented regardless of existing architecture, applications, database or mapping data. One of our key strengths is the delivery of these solutions to large numbers of users via browser or client/server technology.

We recognise that location is a single component of a total corporate information system. Spatial integration within this environment involves understanding existing architectures and applications and being able to co-operate and function effectively with all of the stakeholders. Ensuring there are robust management and maintenance processes for data is a key focus for e-Spatial. This maximises the ongoing benefits from your system.

e-Spatial provides the following services:

• Development of integrated solutions incorporating spatial technology
• Business needs analysis
• Total project design
• Development
• Integration and implementation
• Project management
• Data quality, management and maintenance processes
• Maintenance of application critical spatial data
• Development of spatial database processes for data maintenance
• Definition of Service Level Agreements for spatial data supply
• Consulting
• Location Intelligence
• Spatial data standards
• Data quality and maintenance processes
• Spatial data modelling and optimisation

Filament

Filament is a SAS Institute Silver Alliance Partner with a focus on SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) and Portal. With over 18 years of working with a wide range of SAS Software technologies and having strengths in Internet technology development, Filament offers your company an expert resource for the installation, development and maintenance of SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Systems.

Past projects include software and Internet applications for diverse industry sectors in New Zealand, Australia and Europe. Current major projects include the installation, development and configuration of the SAS Version 9 Enterprise BI Portal.

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
   

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 Consulting Group is an Australasian IT consulting company specialising in Business Intelligence. It has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Wellington and Auckland and a workforce of over 30 highly-skilled consultants. SAS BI consultancy is a major part of Sysware’s business, including the latest Version BI server technology. Consultants also have extensive experience in other BI tools and databases, complementing their SAS focus. Their skills cover the whole range of BI including ETL, data warehouse and datamart construction, support and maintenance, plus analytics, data mining, and reporting.

Sysware’s consultants also have many years of industry experience in banking, finance, insurance, government, telecommunications, energy, pharmaceuticals and retail. Their industry-specific knowledge is a key component to drawing insights from corporate data to promote better decision-making and leading to improved company performance. This philosophy is summed up in their slogan: Business Intelligence for Intelligent Business.

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.

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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