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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.6B
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Gathering intelligence for business battles! SAS Institute Inc. deals in data warehousing and data mining software used to gather, manage, and analyze enormous amounts of corporate information. Clients use its software to find patterns in customer data, manage resources, and target new business. Founded in 1976, this $1.6 billion company is based Cary, NC and employs about 10,000 people. It also offers industry-specific integrated software and support packages. Some of its clients are Maytag, Air France, and the US Department of Defense. In March 2006 the company acquired the assets of Marketing Resource Management provider Veridiem, Inc., a privately held software company based in Maynard, MA, that helps customers analyze and optimize their returns across the entire spectrum of marketing investments.
Number of Employees 9,921
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Technical and Trade Schools: 611519
Recent Events
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SAS Business Analytics Boosts Midsized Businesses
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Casinos Play SAS Analytics Card, Win Prestigious Innovative Solutions Award
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SAS sues British firm in software copyright dispute
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Goodnight: SAS might 'eke out' 34th straight year of revenue growth
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Invacare Standardizes on SAS® Financial Management, Escapes Spreadsheet Nightmare
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Kyobo Life Insurance Selects SAS to Reduce and Prevent Fraud
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Deutsche Telekom Chooses SAS Marketing Campaign Management as New International Standard
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Developing countries tap SAS data analytics software to improve governance
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SAP, SAS respond to IBM's planned SPSS acquisition
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IBM to buy SAS competitor SPSS for $1.2B
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Wet Seal selects SAS to size it right
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SAS in Visionaries Quadrant for Enterprise Marketing Management
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Registration Fees * Member -- This fee applies to Ohio Society members and affiliates, or members of other state societies. * Non-member -- All individuals who qualify for membership in The Ohio Society and choose not to be members/affiliates or individuals who do not work in an accounting-...
Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 100 Interim Financial Information
Statement on Auditing Standards SAS No. 100 Interim Financial Information, supersedes SAS No. 71 of the same name. It was issued to provide additional guidance on performing reviews of interim financial information and to incorporate the requirement of the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC for timely filings of interim financial...
Due professional care in cases of high engagement risk
Surveying a perilous environment In Brief Audit lessons from Andersen and Enron The Enron-Andersen debacle makes for a case study on exercising due professsional care on high-risk audit engagements. Auditing issues that the lawon case highlights include going-concern assessments: related-party disclosures;...
Financial statement and auditing standards update
Readers should be aware of recent updates in financial statement reporting, as well as items under consideration, and how these changes may affect members in making credit decisions. It is hoped that these reports will stimulate thought and discussion as to other changes lenders would prefer to see in such...
Expanding the auditors' role to narrow the expectations gap
Since the early 1970s, the auditing profession has been under increased pressure and scrutiny by government and users of audit reports. The Commission on Auditors' Responsibilities generally known as the Cohen Commission coined the term "expectations gap," referring to the difference between how auditors perceive their role and how financial...
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