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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
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NAICS Code Other Technical and Trade Schools: 611519
Recent Events
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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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SAS Business Analytics Mission-Critical for Broadcaster
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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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SAS® Demand Forecasting for Retail Drives Top- and Bottom-Line Growth
- 2007-10-03
Upgrade Improves Ability to Anticipate Consumer Demand
Forecasting a flap: econometrics has long been the province of Ph.D.s, but applications for marketers are emerging via automated user interfaces and B1 reporting tools.(CRM's MATHEMATICAL NEXUS)(Cover story)
- 2007-01-01
There's a chaos-theory concept that refers to how a small, seemingly unimportant action in one part of the universe creates massive change in another part of the universe. The idea is this: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?...
Forecasting a Flap
- 2007-01-01
Econometrics has long been the province of Ph. D.s, but applications for marketers are emerging via automated user interfaces and BI reporting toolsThere's a chaos-theory concept that refers to how a small, seemingly unimportant action in one part of the universe creates massive change in another part of the universe....
SAS to Host New Business Forecasting Conference; F2006 Conference Showcases Advances and Best Practices in Business Forecasting
- 2006-04-24
CARY, N.C. -- SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced its inaugural F2006 Business Forecasting Conference(www.sas.com/events/fx/index.html)to be held June 5-6 at SAS headquarters here. Based on early registration numbers, F2006 promises to be one of the industry's largest forecasting conferences, indicating a growing need for predictive analytics, including forecasting.
Accurate Forecasts Allow Decision Makers to Lead with Confidence; SAS® Helps Telstra Predict Customer Revenue, Cuts Forecasting Process from Weeks to Hours
- 2005-11-08
CARY, N.C. -- Accurate forecasts allow managers to reduce supply chain costs, respond quickly to dynamic market changes and meet performance management objectives better. For organizations that need to automate large numbers of forecasts without sacrificing accuracy, SAS, the leader in business intelligence, is now shipping its award-winning SASR Forecast...
New SAS Forecast Server Sets the Standard for Accurate Forecasting; Only Forecasting Product on the Market Able to Deliver Such a High Level of Automated and Precise Forecasts to Businesses
- 2005-06-22
LISBON, PORTUGAL -- Saving money and increasing sales are important objectives for any business. With these goals in mind, SAS, the leader in business intelligence, will deliver its patent-pending forecasting product, SASR Forecast Server, to help companies improve the accuracy of their forecasts and the manageability of the overall forecast...
SAS Provides Sport Chalet with Xtreme Performance Capabilities; Sport Chalet Selects Integrated Financial, Assortment, Allocation and Forecasting Solution From SAS
- 2005-05-24
CHICAGO -- Implementing a customer-centric business strategy may be fairly new to some companies, but not to Sport Chalet, Inc (NASDAQ: SPCH) a full service specialty sporting goods chain. Since 1959, Sport Chalet has practiced the art of seeing things through the eyes of its customers. Now, with 36 stores...
SAS Solutions for Forecasting Dominate the Market Across Industries; Reliable Analysis of Business Data Produces Insights for Competitive Advantage
- 2005-03-28
CARY, N.C. -- SAS leads the forecasting software market with deeper penetration than other software vendors in such industries as consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, banking, pharmaceuticals, retail, utilities and higher education. This finding was based on published reports.
New forecasting tool from SAS
- 2004-11-01
SAS (sas.com) has introduced High-Performance Forecasting, an analytics-driven product built on the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform. SAS says its new offering provides large-scale automated forecasting that allows companies to reduce forecasting error, increaSAS (sas.com) has introduced High-Performance Forecasting, an analytics-driven product built on the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform. SAS says...
SAS Launches SAS High-Performance Forecasting; New SAS 9 Product Quickly Produces Millions of High-Quality, Automated Forecasts
- 2004-09-27
CARY, N.C. -- SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today unveiled SASR High-Performance Forecasting, a powerful analytics-driven product built on the SASR9 Intelligence Platform. SAS High-Performance Forecasting provides large-scale automated forecasting that allows companies to significantly reduce forecasting error, increase operational efficiency and improve the bottom line. The automated sophistication...
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