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IT infrastructures are complex. Integrating data and applications is a constant challenge, and so is providing the accurate intelligence demanded in today's fast-paced competitive environment.

SAS®9 provides an integrated platform for delivering enterprise intelligence. This platform, which we call the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform, optimally integrates individual technology components within your existing IT infrastructure into a single, unified system. The result is an information flow that transcends organizational silos, diverse computing platforms and niche tools - and delivers new insights that drive value for your organization.

Use this page as a quick introduction to the specific ways we can help your organization succeed.

Data Integration

The New Data Integration Landscape
For years, the key to success for any business intelligence solution has been the process known as extract, transform and load (ETL). Selecting the right tool to meet an organization's need for gathering data from disparate sources, and transforming the data before loading it into a target destination, was the critical factor in building a data warehouse or a data mart in order to support an organization's BI projects. ETL became so important that the process became synonymous with the tool, and the technology became known as ETL technology, which spawned many ETL tools.
read the complete article by Mark Torr from SASdownload the free white paper

SAS Expands Data Integration Initiative
At the SAS Users Group Meeting in San Francisco (SUGI 31), SAS announced a major corporate initiative to extend its capabilities and market leadership in data integration (DI) - the transformation of disparate, poorly connected islands of information into an enterprisewide environment that provides high-quality, up-to-the-minute information. read more

Business Intelligence

CIO Insight: SAS is Clear Leader in BI
When CIO Insight asked 884 IT executives if their top vendors are delivering the value and reliability they expect, SAS ranked as the leader in business intelligence (BI). read more

Research Report: Knowledge – the path to IT governance and trust

When it comes to the generation, monitoring and reporting of valuable, useable knowledge from IT activities, SAS supplies an unrivalled range of offerings via the SAS IT Intelligence solutions. The SAS IT Intelligence solutions provide ‘best practice’ IT Balanced Scorecards (i.e. based on CoBIT and ITIL), Activity Based Management, Demand Management, Service Level Management and Analytical engines. All of these come with the aim of not only monitoring and communicating IT value but also to help optimise the IT environment in order to support business objectives.
read the complete report from Bloor Research (March 2006)

On Demand Webcast: Competing on Analytics

If your company isn't competing on analytics, now is the time to take a look at how doing so can improve enterprise performance and increase your bottom line. In their widely anticipated next Influencer's Webcast, Business Finance and SAS bring together leading experts to demonstrate how you can make analytics central to strategy and transform your business processes to derive maximum value from them.
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Creating in-depth business intelligence is the best way to make smarter decisions that reduce costs, increase revenues and balance risk and returns. SAS provides everything you need to implement a complete intelligence strategy throughout your enterprise.
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