SAS Honors Customers for Innovative Use of SAS® Business Analytics

SAS GLOBAL FORUM, WASHINGTON (Mar. 23, 2009)  –  SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, honored three customers with the Enterprise Excellence Award for effectively using SAS software to address business challenges, empowering leaders to make confident, insightful decisions. Poland’s PLAYMobile earned the User Feedback Award, presented to the user making the greatest contribution to SAS products over the year. 

2009 SAS Enterprise Excellence Award winners:

• The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (WI DOR) implemented a department wide data warehouse using SAS Business Intelligence, providing readily available and easily accessible data to help users perform more efficiently. Transforming raw data into information for expanding users groups, the solution facilitates back-end data processing and end-user reporting. WI DOR's information resource helps the entire organization comply with directives, initiatives and legislative mandates.
  
• FIDUCIA IT AG used SAS Financial Intelligence software to develop a new performance management system that includes process cost analysis, integrated company control, presentation of indicator systems and financial indicator consolidation and planning. The result is strategic corporate control, transparency across divisions and consistent, reliable company-wide information.
• The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (the Group) for using SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform as a basis for its Financial Crimes Platform (FCP). The FCP allows the Group to bring together data for the identification, analysis and prevention of fraud as well as monitoring transactions to detect money laundering and terrorist financing. The successes of the Financial Crimes Platform saw the Group go on to adopt the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform to centralize its discovery functions into a single platform, centralizing its resources and data to allow greater and deeper insights. The Group now has extended the FCP to include SAS Anti-Money Laundering, making it the first Australian financial services institution to incorporate anti-money laundering within a comprehensive financial crime detection and prevention platform as a fully integrated component, rather than install it as a stand-alone system.
  

2009 SAS User Feedback Award winner:

Jarosław Maj, Deputy IT Director at PLAYMobile of Poland, worked with SAS R&D, Technical Support and Product Management to improve the user interface of SAS Web Report Studio and underlying technologies.

“The SAS User Feedback Award proves that SAS listens to customer needs and feedback encompassing new ideas and specific, heterogeneous BI architectures implemented worldwide,” said Maj. 

Today’s announcement came at SAS Global Forum, the largest annual SAS users group conference, attended by more than 3,000 business and IT users of SAS software and solutions.

About Wisconsin Department of Revenue
The mission of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue is to be a modern, cost-effective agency that leads the nation in excellent customer service, progressive tax policy, advanced economic research, fair enforcement and sound lottery management.

About FIDUCIA IT AG
FIDUCIA IT AG is the largest IT services provider in the cooperative financial system in Germany. The core business of the Fiducia Group is the provision of IT services for co-operative banks and enterprises in the financial grouping as well as for private banks. The Fiducia operates more than 800 banking applications for banks.

About Commonwealth Bank of Australia
The Commonwealth Bank is one of Australia’s leading providers of integrated financial services including retail banking, premium banking, business banking, institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, and investment and sharebroking products and services. The Group is one of the largest listed companies on the Australian Stock Exchange and is included in the Morgan Stanley Capital Global Index.

About PLAYMobile
PLAYMobile is a leading operator of 3G broadband mobile network in Poland and is the fourth mobile carrier in the country. PLAYMobile is the first multimedia mobile phone operator in Poland. Today, PLAYMobile has more than 2 million customers and 2,100 base stations commercially working with coverage of more than 50 percent of the country’s population.