PriceWaterHouse Coopers

"For more than a decade, PwC Consulting has had an alliance with SAS to help our clients solve complex business problems. With SAS and PwC Consulting combining industry and subject matter expertise, we have worked to create enterprise-wide solutions in areas such as CRM, Balanced Scorecard and Supplier Relationship Management, all designed to help our clients remain competitive in a volatile economy."
-- Mike Schroeck, Partner and iAnalytics Champion for PwC Consulting, a business of PricewaterhouseCoopers

"The functional knowledge and industry experience of PricewaterhouseCoopers, combined with the strong capabilities of SAS Institute's technological solutions, build bridges that enable IT and business people to work together to turn data into information, and information into profit. PricewaterhouseCoopers and SAS Institute provide services and solutions above and beyond what either company could achieve on its own. We help organizations starving for information get the knowledge they need to exploit new business opportunities and generate new revenue."
-- Frederic Doche, Managing Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers' Europe, Middle East & Africa iAnalytics Practice

Partner or Business Overview
PwC's industry-focused consulting practice brings an impressive track record of engagements, some of the most experienced people in the business, and the knowledge that is required to solve the most challenging problems facing companies today. Through in-depth industry knowledge, PwC's emphasis on understanding clients' culture, and through value-focused orientation, PwC aims to bring a unique perspective to whatever problems your organization is facing.

The PwC Management Consulting Services (MCS) Group provides clients with technical and functional assistance that enables them to achieve their strategic and organizational goals. Today, MCS is a global practice with more than 1,000 partners and directors and 23,000 staff members. PwC is a recognized leader in the integration of change management and information technology. With more than 800 offices in over 150 countries, PwC is represented in every country with a free economy. This enables PwC's consultants to respond quickly to clients' needs anywhere in the world, bringing together the best composite teams possessing credentials, experience, skills, industry knowledge and cultural understanding. A common set of tools, methodologies, and training ensure that service delivery is consistent worldwide, regardless of location.

PwC's thought leadership is another example of its depth and breadth. Examples include:

• Customer Management and Marketing Center of Excellence: Located in Walnut Creek, Calif., this center houses tools for education and prototyping on automated database marketing.
• Data Warehousing Knowledge Centers: These centers provide a focal point for knowledge sharing, tools knowledge and education, best practice information, research, and prototyping.
• Data Mining Tool Evaluation: PricewaterhouseCoopers has conducted a rigorous, hands-on evaluation of 16 leading data mining tools. The tools have been evaluated using real data across a number of important evaluation criteria.
• Advanced Software Engineering Centers (ASEC) Program: This program provide clients and staff with hands-on access to state-of-the-art technologies. They are highly flexible information systems environments equipped with the latest component technologies supporting legacy systems integration, client/server computing architectures, imaging and document management systems, complex LAN/WAN distributed applications and database systems.
• The Market Intelligence EnterpriseSM Vision: This vision articulates the characteristics that define a best practice customer-centric organization that promotes customer loyalty and profitability in every channel - Web, call centers, sales force/brokers/retailers, direct mail, and other marketing events.
• Global Systems Solution Center: This center houses specialized technology leaders, including specialized data warehousing experts, who are leveraged across clients globally as a resource to client teams.
• Technology Forecast: This group and the material they publish help PricewaterhouseCoopers and its clients understanding emerging issues in information and other technologies.
• Best Practices Databases and Research Material: PwC has Web-accessible best practices materials, white papers on relevant topics to our clients, and published material that contributes to the state-of-knowledge in the industry.
• Automotive Center of Excellence: Located in Detroit, Mich.; Birmingham, UK; and Seoul, South Korea, these centers are a focal point for automotive industry expertise, knowledge transfer databases, training, tools, and research.