SAS® Customers receive Intelligence Awards

SAS awards for Business Solutions, Analytic Intelligence and Enterprise Intelligence Platform

TERVUREN, Oct. 1, 2009

During SAS Forum Belgium & Luxembourg, SAS' annual Business Analytics Conference that took place on Thursday 1 October in the Aula Magna in Louvain-la-Neuve,
SAS awarded 3 customers for their strategic and innovative projects realized with SAS solutions. The awards were granted for SAS Analytic Intelligence and SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform. The 3th award was for the best customer paper presented during the Forum.

SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform Award 2009:

Two customers were selected for this award:

IMEC

IMEC is Europe's leading independent research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology and was established in 1984. IMEC transforms university knowledge into basic solutions for industries and they conduct research with impact on society: technologies for renewable energy, well-being, environment, health, comfort, heterogeneous integration of different technologies.

As IMEC was growing and expanding its international footprint and as there were growing business needs for extending the actual reporting, IMEC decided to conduct a Business Intelligence Strategy Study. After this, they decided to implement SAS®9, and created a department-independent BI Competency Center.

The award was handed over to Mr Paul Vandeloo, CIO - Vice President ICT.

Fortis Retail Banking

Fortis Retail Banking choose SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform to help them enhance the structure, quality, richness and delivery of customer and financial data for operational reporting, campaign management, performance management and data mining purposes.

The award was handed over to Benoit Bebronne, Data Warehouse and BI Program Manager.

SAS Analytic Intelligence Award 2009:

Delhaize

At Delhaize the customer comes first. This has always been a credo for Delhaize. But building relationships with customers today is dramatically different then it was in the old days. Delhaize uses SAS Analytics to learn even more about their customers. The results from the analyses are used for customer segmentation, store clustering, assortment planning and business planning.

Louis Martin, Customer Segmentation & Loyalty Manager, accepted the award.

Best Paper Award:

Vivium (P&V)

During the Forum the attendees could rate every presentation.
The presentation with the highest score was the one from Jan Strauven, IT Integration Manager, and Diane Schellens, Program Manager Data Warehouse,
from Vivium (P&V).

They shared their thoughts on questions such as:

If starting small, how to guard the big picture... if starting big, will you ever implement...?
Role of IT versus Business, how to have a fast implementation cycle without compromising on quality?
How to migrate existing reporting environments?
The SAS Insurance model, can it be used as a stepping stone?
Keeping all noses in the same direction?
Who owns the data (who owns the Data Warehouse)?
Do it yourself versus consultancy...
How to stay in the spotlights.... how to sell and keep on selling your DWH project?
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