CARY, NC  (July 31, 2008)  –  SAS has been selected as a Leader in the July 2008 Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008. 

“SAS is the best one-stop BI shop that includes high-end analytics from a single vendor,” according to the report from the influential research firm. “We see no reason SAS can’t continue on its amazing track record of uninterrupted 32-year growth.” 

“Even though several other vendors realize or are starting to realize the value of providing higher-end analytics tools like statistical analysis and predictive modeling, SAS is pretty hard to beat in this category, especially when it comes to embedding such analytical routines in powerful DBMS engines like Teradata,” said the Forrester report.* 

Companies around the globe, and in diverse industries, have deployed SAS BI and predictive analytics to gain competitive advantage. 

With more than 210 US and 120 global partner stores, Brooks Brothers requires a fast, flexible and highly-capable BI solution. The retailer, whose history stretches back to 1818, found what it needed from SAS. 

“As we expected, the SAS BI solution allows Brooks Brothers to quickly see how actions contribute to reaching our goals, but the more we use SAS software, the more its value increases,” said Donovan. “This aligns perfectly with our corporate mission to offer a superior combination of products, service, delivery and communications. We deployed SAS and our customers benefit.” 

SAS differs from most BI vendors by providing a very broad range of capabilities with significant commonality and ease of use across applications, without being tied to one data structure or another application. SAS offers highly tailored solutions for specific industries, such as banking, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing and retail.  

“Our customers such as Brooks Brothers understand that to lead in their business sectors they must take advantage of leading technology. SAS is the BI leader with over 30 years of independent BI innovation and some 44,000 customer sites using our technology to drive their businesses,” said Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at SAS. “Independent research firms such as Forrester continue to confirm customers’ wise choice of SAS.”

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