BI Vendor SAS Top Business Performance Solution – Q4 2009
November 17, 2009 3:51 am BI TheoryBI vendor SAS was designated the leader of business performance solutions in the Q4 2009 Forrester Business Performance Solutions report.
It received a perfect score for cost and profitability analysis and also the top score inproduct strategy and vision.
In spite of scaling back operations in the past year, SAS has still maintained its focus on truly understanding what drives cost, profit and value without subrogation of key business capability.
SAS enables businesses to model future scenarios to help them predict and optimize potential situations and make fact-based decisions.
According to Forresters Research’s report “planning, forecasting, financial reporting and performance measurement solutions are essential for addressing economic uncertainty”.
Forecasting heps cope with market volatility, even in times of economic slowdown or uncertainty. For identifying leading indicators, and using these to forecast rather than relying on lagging indicators contained in traditional reporting, companies are better positioned to identify opportunities and threats and respond ahead of the curve.
SAS for Performance Management is currently implemented across more than 1,500 customer sites, and includes:
- Dashboards and scorecards
- Financial consolidation, budgeting, planning and reporting
- Cost and profitability analysis
- Human and IT capital analysis
- Customer and supplier intelligence
- Enterprise risk management
- Sustainability management
- Advanced analytics
For more on SAS BI Solutions
Across Forrester’s 89-criteria evaluation of business performance solutions vendors, IBM Cognos, Oracle, SAP, and SAS Institute took the lead based on their breadth of functionality and strength of their business intelligence foundations.
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