SAS wins Best Risk Data Aggregation Platform

SAS, the global leader in analytics, has been recognized for Best Risk Data Aggregation Platform by the A-Team Group at the Data Management Review Awards 2017.

Now in its fifth year, the United Kingdom-based DMR Awards have been designed to acknowledge excellence in data management within capital markets and focus on the community of specialized suppliers within financial data management.

“The readership of Data Management Review recognized the ability of SAS to deliver industry leading data analytics solutions for capital markets and financial services organizations,” said Andrew Delaney, President at A-Team Group.

“We are delighted to have been recognized once again for our data analytics solutions with this award,” said Charles Senabulya, Vice President and Country Manager for SAS UK and Ireland. “Our financial services software delivers comprehensive solutions for analysing and aggregating risk by type, including market, credit, liquidity and operational risks. This is becoming increasingly important as more organizations recognize the need to make more and better use of data to inform day-to-day decision making, beyond just ensuring regulatory compliance.”

Award categories ranged from best sell-side and buy-side data management platforms to solutions for managed services; corporate actions processing; data aggregation; data lineage; entity data; know your client and client onboarding; performance measurement; and fund accounting, portfolio and data management. Categories for data providers included best sell-side data and best buy-side data, pricing and valuations data, index data and corporate actions data.