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Performance Management

"Traditionally, SAS targets the IT buyer with a strong analytic and data management platform. Well known in pockets of the business for statistical and predictive analytics, it has been less effective cracking the office of the CFO, but not because the products don't stack up. The company recognizes this fact and has put a dedicated sales team in place to boost its revenue. With success in EMEA, SAS has patterned approaches that work well for the rest of the global sales effort. With profitability back on the CFO's agenda, SAS can ride that theme to more success across all its CPM products."
– Hagerty, John & Verma, Koppel. "CPM Market Landscape: Office of the CFO Is Hot Again," AMR Research, Sept. 21, 2007

Maximize Business Performance Case Study: Chemtura and SAS, September 2007
"At Chemtura the use of their performance management system provides tremendous value to the end users. SAS is delivering on long-touted benefits of business performance management."

The Forrester Wave™: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2007: Oracle, Cognos, And SAS Institute Lead, Business Objects And SAP In Hot Pursuit, October 2007
"Forrester assessed 10 leading business performance solutions (BPS) vendors across 83 criteria in a product evaluation. SAS Institute now has a solid set of BPS offerings well integrated on its BI platform with particular depth in predictive analytic forecasting as well as cost and profitability management." The trademark Forrester Wave™ is on page 11 of this report.

SAS Institute Has Arrived As A Leader In Business Performance Solutions: The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007, October 2007
"Focus on predicting the future. SAS Institute has a leading capability in predictive analytics that can be leveraged to develop sophisticated forecasting processes and scenario-based planning. This capability complements a well-rounded and well-integrated set of business performance solutions."

IDC analyst Kathy Wilhide publishes case study on SAS^® Activity-Based Management deployment at Verizon Business

  Business problem: Need to analyze and better understand shared expenses and overhead costs such as sales, engineering, and product development and meaningfully allocate those costs to the products sold and the sales revenue generated.

  SAS solution: SAS^® Activity-Based Management

  Results: valuable tool used by many departments to better understand the business. Marketing and engineering, for example, use ABC data to feed models to adjust pricing based upon historic cost structures and margins and can model new pricing schemes.

  IDC subscribers can download the Verizon case study: Profitability – More Than an Exercise in Accounting: A Case Study of Verizon Business, December 2007.

Worldwide Financial Performance and Strategy Management Software 2006: Impact of Market Consolidation Frenzy (Excerpt), September 2007

Yphise Software Product Assessment, Strategic Performance Management (SPM), March 2007

"SAS Strategic Performance Management (SAS) stands out in the two assessment dimensions and provides the best coverage in "Measuring the progress according to the objectives"... In particular, the product provides advanced predictive analysis functions. To complement SAS SPM, the vendor provides its SAS ETS (Econometrics and Time Series) solution. This provides the ability to perform predictive analysis (what-if scenarios) aimed at improving the strategies and performance.