CARY, NC  (20 gennaio 2009)  –  SAS was placed in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms [1].

Gartner describes vendors in the Leaders quadrant as “reasonably strong in breadth and depth of business intelligence (BI) platform capabilities, and delivering enterprisewide implementations supporting a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver globally.” 

“SAS’ complete business analytics portfolio arms customers with powerful forecasting, predictive modeling, optimization, as well as data integration and reporting,” said Jim Davis, SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. “We believe the Gartner report validates what our customers already recognize and employ for competitive advantage.”

SAS’ customer base, which ranges from small businesses to global corporations, includes more customers that depend upon predictive analytics and data mining than any other BI vendor. 

“SAS customers recognize that knowing what happened in their businesses is good, but knowing what will happen is invaluable because they can manage proactively,” Davis said.

An integral part of its proven business analytics, SAS’ broad set of horizontal and industry-specific business solutions provide insights for quick action. Powered by core technology such as SAS® Enterprise BI Server, SAS helps organizations answer complex questions, especially in a challenging economy. Only SAS offers this breadth of technologies and solutions.

Horizontal solutions include SAS® Customer Intelligence, SAS® for Enterprise Risk Management and SAS® Performance Management. Industry-specific solutions include SAS® Fraud Management, SAS® Patient Safety and SAS® Integrated Merchandise Planning.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. 

[1] Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, James Richardson, Kurt Schlegel, Rita L. Sallam, Bill Hostmann, January 19, 2009.

SAS
SAS è leader nei software e nei servizi di business analytics ed è la più grande società indipendente nel mercato della business intelligence. Attraverso soluzioni innovative all’interno di un framework integrato e con oltre 45,000 installazioni in tutto il mondo, SAS aiuta le imprese a migliorare le performance e a veicolare valore, aiutando i manager e i knowledge workers a prendere decisioni migliori in tempi brevi. Dal 1976 SAS fornisce alle aziende THE POWER TO KNOW®