-- Honored for credit risk and IT service level management software --

22 February 2005 - SAS, the leader in business intelligence, announced today that the company earned two wins in the Datamation Product of the Year 2005 Awards. SAS^® Credit Risk Management was voted best in the Compliance Software category, while SAS IT Service Level Management received top honors for Network & Systems Management Software.

Datamation readers were asked to vote on their product preferences in 10 broad technology categories. The results were published this week on the magazine’s site at itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/article.php/3469701.

In Network & Systems Management Software, SAS IT Service Level Management software outpolled its competitors. SAS IT Service Level Management provides IT professionals and business consumers with a powerful way to gain a clear and concise view of IT services, as well as a means to analyze and measure the quality of services to each line of business. Designed to be analytic and strategic, SAS IT Service Level Management provides statistical measures that ensure alignment of the IT enterprise with overall business objectives. Combined with other SAS solutions, SAS IT Service Level Management can deliver service-level financial information as well as IT governance, performance management and capacity-planning capabilities.

The Datamation 2005 Product of the Year awards recognize end users’ and Datamation readers’ choices for achievement and innovation in enterprise hardware and software products. Datamation has a long tradition of honoring the best IT products and vendors. The awards are a mark of distinction and achievement in a crowded, competitive marketplace.

Datamation.com provides ideas and analysis for IT managers and features case studies and trend-spotting reports on the issues faced by corporate computing professionals and also includes daily news and columns. Datamation.com can be found on JupiterWeb’s EarthWeb.com Network.

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