The SAS Business Intelligence Radars (Vendor Focus)

Introduction

This brief analyses the strengths and weaknesses of SAS's Business Intelligence offering. Information Builders is rated according to its market impact (based on revenues), user sentiment (based on customer perceptions) and technology.

Scope

• Technology: an assessment of SAS's technology based on specific attributes and the availability of certain features.
• User sentiment: tracks end-users' impression of SAS's products based on a survey of over 700 Business Intelligence users.
• Market impact: measures SAS's market impact based on its revenues and financial performance.

Highlights

Many enterprises have invested heavily in enterprise applications that by now form an integral part of their core business processes. Subsequently enterprises are increasingly deploying Business Intelligence solutions in order to unlock the potential of the increasing volume of the mission-critical data captured within an enterprise.

Since Business Intelligence could be of benefit to a wide range of organizations, the demand for these solutions will expand. Particularly as organizations are seeking to consolidate their existing BI capabilities further.

Reasons to Purchase

• Gain detailed knowledge of SAS's strengths with regards to technology, user sentiment and market impact.
• Business Intelligence vendors can benchmark their own performance against SAS in various key criteria.
• Enterprise IT managers will gain valuable insight to improve their Business Intelligence purchasing decisions.