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SAS Organizational Solutions.
How does SAS deliver what your organization needs to thrive, especially in these turbulent economic times?
Why should I choose SAS?

Q1) SAS Organizational Solutions

In every area of your organization, decision makers need answers to the questions that are crucial to competing successfully, such as:

•Who are our best customers, and what can we do to keep them?

•How can we improve the accuracy of our financial forecasts?

•How can we cut supply chain costs without compromising quality?

•How can we effectively manage risk across the enterprise?

•Is our IT capacity sufficient to handle peak demands?

Who are our best customers, and what can we do to keep them?

SAS’ award-winning customer intelligence solutions help you generate a comprehensive picture of customer behavior, risk and profitability so you can craft the best offers for individuals and produce more profitable marketing campaigns.

How can we improve the accuracy of our financial forecasts?

SAS financial management and strategy solutions help you create a cohesive, holistic view of costs, profits, Regulatory compliance, forecast scenarios and optimization Strategies enabling you to improve the accuracy of plans and budgets.

How can we improve the accuracy of our financial forecasts?

SAS financial management and strategy solutions help you create a cohesive, holistic view of costs, profits, regulatory compliance, forecast scenarios and optimization strategies enabling you to improve the accuracy of plans and budgets.

How can we cut supply chain costs without compromising quality?

SAS supply chain and sustainability solutions let you analyze spending and supplier performance across many dimensions; make strategic sourcing decisions; optimize your supplier base; and predict and respond to environmental, social and economic risks and opportunities.

How can we effectively manage risk across the enterprise?

With SAS’ market-leading risk intelligence suite, you can accurately identify, measure, monitor, control and report risks across all areas of your organization. Our suite enables your organization to go beyond silo approaches and merely satisfying regulatory requirements by enabling organizational risk management in areas such as credit, market and operations.

Is our IT capacity sufficient to handle peak demands?

SAS solutions for IT intelligence assess the real costs and value of your information assets, helping you identify the best mix of resources to meet strategic goals while managing risk and minimizing delivery costs.

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Q2) How does SAS deliver what your organization needs to thrive, especially in these turbulent economic times?

Flexible Framework

•       Integration

•       Predictive Analysis

•       Maximized return on investments

•       Industry and domain expertise

Flexible Framework

SAS provides a flexible business analytics framework that grows over time to support your performance objectives and changing market dynamics. Eventually, while solving more and more business problems, improving performance and evolving the business, your organization can expand the business analytics framework into a platform tailored to its needs.

Integration

SAS is the only business analytics vendor with a range of industry and organizational solutions as well as award-winning data integration, analytics and reporting technologies that you can put to work by themselves, or as part of your specially built solutions. This integration enables a single, seamless framework that can grow with your organization.

Predictive Analysis

Analytics has become an overused term; almost any vendor can provide analytics that help your organization look at the past. SAS’ unique value proposition is our ability to help organizations use capabilities such as forecasting, predictive modeling and optimization to become proactive instead of reactive. This enables you to predict with accuracy and seize opportunities ahead of the competition.

Maximized return on investments

Getting the most from business analytics calls for more than just software. The SAS Business Analytics Framework integrates our software solutions with the industry’s most comprehensive range of consulting, training and support services to ensure you gain maximum return on your IT investments. Additionally, SAS enables optimal integration of the individual technology components that already exist within your IT infrastructure.

Industry and domain expertise

SAS provides a depth of industry and organizational solutions unequaled by any other vendor. We offer tailor-made solutions for industries and business functions designed to meet specific requirements, helping you quickly get the answers you need to improve all areas of your organization.

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Q3) Why should I choose SAS?

• Global reach, local presence

• Award-winning customer support

• Continuous knowledge sharing

• Financial stability and strength

Global reach, local presence

SAS solutions are used at more than 45,000 sites in 115 countries, including 91 of the top companies in the 2008 FORTUNE Global 500®, to develop more profitable relationships with customer and suppliers; to enable better decisions; and to move forward with confidence and clarity. More than 11,000 SAS employees in more than 400 SAS offices around the world provide local support for global implementations.

Award-winning customer support

SAS customers receive a full suite of support services at no extra charge, including skilled telephone technical support and unlimited, around-the-clock online technical support. Our online Customer Support Center provides always-on access to a wealth of technical support, reference Information, free online documentation, educational resources and user communities.

Continuous knowledge sharing

SAS offers a rich variety of resources to help you build your SAS skills so you can explore and apply the full power of SAS software. Knowledge sharing is continuously available through seminars, podcasts, Web casts and an expansive selection of training courses. In addition, we blend our award-winning software with flexible business and technical consulting services to help you quickly achieve your strategic objectives.

Financial stability and strength

SAS’ record of revenue growth in every year of our existence not only makes us a stable partner, but has also enabled us to annually reinvest more than 20 percent of revenues in R&D – nearly twice the industry average – so we can continually improve our products. This commitment to innovation is one reason why 98 percent of our customers renew their software licenses with SAS every year.

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