Enterprise risk management is a way for organisations to get where they want to go while avoiding hazards and shocks along the way. It entails more than balancing risk and reward, and it goes beyond regulatory compliance. It’s about embedding risk management in everyday processes at all levels of the organisation; that is, making risk management a part of "business as usual." Only SAS delivers a unified, quantitative risk management framework that includes: Integrated, comprehensive data management. The most powerful predictive analytics available. User-friendly, self-service reporting. A transparent environment that lets you manage the entire process – from identifying risk, to measuring, mitigating and monitoring it on an ongoing basis. Enterprise risk management solutions for your industry Banking and financial services. Drive profitability, manage risk and achieve compliance with confidence. Communications. Achieve risk-based performance management and revenue assurance. Energy. Quickly assess and proactively manage changes to your risk profile. Government. Take a risk-based approach to making the most of available funds and driving out fraud. Insurance. Gain a risk-based view of your enterprise, and improve your return on capital. A proven company, proven experience – Enterprise Risk Management excellence SAS tops retail banking credit risk management study for second year. SAS core risk management technology ranked first in Chartis RiskTech 100 report for second straight year SAS Risk Intelligence earns top honors from OpRisk & Compliance magazine. Chartis Research ranked SAS as the leader for the third consecutive year in its "Operational Risk Management Systems 2007" report. Risk magazine named SAS Risk Intelligence 2007 Software Product of the Year. SAS was positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Basel II Software Applications, 2006" report. Chartis Research ranked SAS second overall in its 2006 RiskTech 100 rankings and first within the "Core Technology" category. Chartis Research’s OpRisk Software Market Competitive Landscape 2006 named SAS as the leading vendor in both "Market Share Potential" and "Completeness of Offering." SAS has more than 140 Basel II implementations worldwide. In business since 1976, SAS today has customers at more than 40,000 sites worldwide. SAS has more than three decades of experience working with financial institutions all over the world. More than 2,900 financial institutions worldwide are SAS customers, including 96 percent of banks on the 2006 FORTUNE Global 500®.

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