Market Validation

Don't just take our word for it, listen to what our customers have to say. If you share in their pains, you may be able to share in their gains. See what the industry analysts say about our offerings. Listen to our partners to find out how SAS software can give your organization THE POWER TO KNOW^®.

Customer Validation

• "We’re using SAS®9 Enterprise Miner and Text Miner along with SAS/STAT and other SAS software to look at improving the quality of patient care by investigating the impact of procedures upon outcomes,” said Dr. Patricia Cerrito of the University of Louisville. “We’ve experienced greater depth of analytical functionality and new levels of ease of use. We couldn’t be happier with the integrated SAS®9 analytics tools. We’re continually amazed by insights that were previously hidden, and we’re proving over and over that SAS is worth its weight in gold."

  Patricia B. Cerrito, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville

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• "As an early adopter, our trials have shown that implementing SAS®9 technology solutions end-to-end is proving to be beneficial for both business and IT users. Every employee at Ugine & ALZ could find a reporting interface that ideally matches both their strategic position and IT knowledge. Because the metadata is uniquely defined, the consistency of data, and therefore the quality of reports, has dramatically improved. In addition, people wishing to use Excel as their primary reporting tool could continue to do so with greater facility."

  Kris Vranken, data warehouse program manager, Ugine & ALZ

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Analyst Validation

• “The SAS 9.1 business intelligence platform is built on a standards-centric architecture, with scalability and reliability ensured via features such as multi-threading and distributed grid capabilities.”

  “SAS, whilst historically known by many as a provider of complex business modeling and statistical analysis tools, has possessed the ability to address data quality within the context of a BI strategy for some time. With the release of SAS 9.1, this can now be presented to a needy market in a consistent and integrated manner.”

  “Butler Group believes that Data Quality can no longer be seen as optional—by embedding it as fundamental capability within its solutions, SAS should find strong resonance with a market desperate for reliable and actionable business insight.”
  

  Ian Charlesworth, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group

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• “The newly developed SAS Intelligence Platform provides an integrated framework for BI system development. Comprehensive support for industry standard metadata interchange, industry standard metadata storage, role-based BI clients and integration APIs make it a strong candidate for enterprise wide BI deployment."
  

  Mike Ferguson, Independent analyst, Business Strategies

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Partner Validation

• "Since 1989, the Solaris Operating System has been the leading UNIX-based platform for SAS customer deployments, and today, Sun and SAS continue to gain market momentum by delivering bottom-line value, security, choice and innovation based on open, standards-based technology. SAS®9 is an important step in our continued success, to help ensure future scalability, usability and functionality for customers making important IT investments. Together, SAS Solutions on the Solaris OS helps boost performance, scalability, and technological agility, as well as deploy information to users through robust and flexible Java technology interfaces."

  Stuart Wells, Senior Vice President, Market Development, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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• "SAS and HP have been bringing outstanding business and technology value to our joint customers for over 20 years. SAS’ new release, SAS®9, is an important leap forward in usability, manageability and performance for customers who are experiencing critical BI market demands, such as the new regulations linked to corporate accountability and the related explosion in the volume of information. We are pleased that SAS solutions take advantage of HP Itanium based servers to provide leading performance and flexibility."

  Ron Eller, VP and general manager, Enterprise Solutions Alliances, HP

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