IBM Corporation

IBM Global Services

IBM has created a unique practice that specializes in SAS solutions. Consultants provide analytical services, systems integration and industry-specific e-business consulting expertise. Combining these services with SAS solutions for CRM, SRM and ERP exploitation, SAS and IBM customers can integrate the decision-support capabilities of SAS solutions with existing transaction systems and other IBM e-business applications.

Modernize and Grow on IBM Hardware

SAS and IBM work together to make sure that our joint customers gain the greatest performance and return on both their SAS software investment and hardware investment. By collaborating on the business side and IT side, both organizations see the value of the partnership, and our message together is stronger. The benefits of modernizing a customer’s environment include:

• Expanding customer capabilities by enabling more users on the latest technology, including software and hardware upgrades and in-database and grid technology.
• Helping manage and justify IT expenditures – TCA vs TCO.
• Allowing more resources to be used.
• Faster and more accurate data processing can result in better business decisions.

Software and middleware technology

Together, IBM technology and SAS software extend the power of intelligence throughout the enterprise. IBM DB2 Universal Database is powering the world's e-business solutions by offering open, industrial-strength database management for business intelligence, transaction processing, and a broad range of applications. More than 2,700 sites and 1,900 companies and organizations are running SAS software and DB2 Universal Database today. Coupled with IBM MQSeries, eNetwork Communications Server and DB2, Web-enabled SAS software applications provide real-time access to data warehouses and sophisticated analysis applications for large and geographically dispersed user bases.

Financing

Utilizing the IBM Global Financing (IGF) program allows much more flexible payment options (level monthly payments, balloon payments, etc.) than SAS' standard annual fee structure. IGF can also finance any combination of SAS software (both first-year fees and renewals), services and/or hardware – even services or hardware supplied by a different vendor.