Take Your Baan System from Competitive Parity to Competitive Advantage

Your ERP application provides valuable information to streamline operations and lower costs. But why stop there? Leverage your investment to greater advantage with the SAS Intelligent Warehousing Solution for Baan. Tap additional information that differentiates you from your competitors. Improve customer relationships. Create supply-chain efficiencies. Discern patterns in your Web-based ventures. These are the kinds of insights that come only from intelligent warehousing.

Designed in partnership with our customers, the SAS Intelligent Warehousing Solution for Baan:

• Can be quickly customized to meet your specific needs.
• Is flexible and scalable to adapt easily to your changing business -- including new versions of Baan.
• Creates a simplified working environment with a view of the big picture.
• Reduces the performance issues associated with operation reporting.

The SAS Intelligent Warehousing Solution for Baan enables an architected framework to support business analysis. This robust, yet flexible, approach makes it easy to progress quickly from simple business reports to mature strategic solutions -- no matter how far along you are with your SAP implementation.

Rapid Result, a SAS exclusive, is your starting point for specific industry/departmental solutions. This consulting service provides customized business reports based on your specifications in a matter of days. Select from collections of customized reports, individual predefined reports or business templates (Cost Center Analysis, Procurement, Sales profitability and more).

From specific industry/departmental solutions to enterprise-wide strategic business solutions, the SAS Intelligent Warehousing Solution for Baan can evolve from exploitation technologies -- such as OLAP and data mining -- to enterprise solutions such as customer relationship management, supply-chain management, financial consolidation and reporting, and balanced scorecard.

Companies that are using SAS information delivery and decision-support solutions to report on ERP data are producing stellar returns on their large ERP investments. Let SAS show you how!