SAS Review
October 1, 2006 from CAmagazine and written by Michael Burns – “In the global market for corporate performance management and business intelligence software, SAS Institute Inc. is unquestionably a leader. With 10,000 employees, 4.5 million users and 40,000 customer sites in 110 countries, the company earned revenue of US$1.74 billion last year. Based in Cary, North Carolina, it has offices throughout the world, including Toronto. It also has the distinction of being the world's largest privately held software company.
In the past, SAS competed with companies like Hyperion and Cognos. Today, it also shares the market with some ERP vendors that are bundling CPM components with their systems. So why would anyone want to use multiple products if they could just use one integrated ERP solution?”
October 1, 2006 from CAmagazine and written by Michael Burns – “In the global market for corporate performance management and business intelligence software, SAS Institute Inc. is unquestionably a leader. With 10,000 employees, 4.5 million users and 40,000 customer sites in 110 countries, the company earned revenue of US$1.74 billion last year. Based in Cary, North Carolina, it has offices throughout the world, including Toronto. It also has the distinction of being the world's largest privately held software company.
In the past, SAS competed with companies like Hyperion and Cognos. Today, it also shares the market with some ERP vendors that are bundling CPM components with their systems. So why would anyone want to use multiple products if they could just use one integrated ERP solution?”
Labels: BI
posted by 180 Systems at 1:07 PM 
2 Comments:
To say SAS can provide an "integrated ERP sol'n" is a misnomer. SAS can provide enterprise BI, limited CRM (mostly marketing support and prospect tracking), some BPM and strong CPM. But SAS is only a component of an enterprise application architecture and to truly be effective, must be integrated into a more complete CRM (esp Sales and Customer Service CRM) system, into Financial and business apps, and into the supply chain apps from other software suppliers.
Our thinking was not that SAS could provide an integrated ERP solution. Rather how could SAS compete with those companies that do offer an integrated ERP solution that contain BI/CPM components?
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