SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Baan

The SAS/ACCESS Interface to Baan is the second in a series of intelligent data warehousing solutions to enable business analysts to leverage their organization's enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. The intelligent warehousing solutions surface and exploit the critical business information housed in ERP and other operational systems into an open, intelligent business decision-making process.

Business professionals are looking for an easy way to turn data into usable information for intelligent business decisions. They need to access diverse business data, guarantee information integrity and quality, meet and exceed customer expectations, and produce a rapid return on their investment. By leveraging existing business data through activities like data warehousing, data mining, business intelligence, and customer relationship management (CRM), business users can be confident that they are driving their business forward. Now they are looking to exploit ERP data to answer pressing business questions such as why? and what can we do about it?.

Extending the reach of SAS software to ERP vendors like Baan, SAP AG, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards exemplifies what SAS Institute does best - go after data, wherever it is, and turn it into useful information for intelligent decision making. We deliver a complete decision support view of an organization's data to those making corporate decisions and shaping their company's future.

The SAS Intelligent Warehousing Solution provides business intelligence solutions for:

• Supplier Relationship Management
• Enterprise Quality Improvement
• Financial Management
• Data Mining
• Customer Relationship Management
• Balanced Scorecard
• Human Resources Management
• Performance Management