Sas

SAS began its company life in 1976 and was called SAS Institute because the name SAS (by itself) was already taken by another incorporated company. SAS (pronounced sass) was an acronym for "Statistical Analysis System."

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 39,000 sites -- including 90% of the Fortune 500 -- to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For more than 25 years, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to KnowÐ'®.

SAS Institute Inc.

www.sas.com

Location:

100 SAS Campus Drive

Cary, North Carolina

USA 27513-2414

Business:

Privately held software company specializing in data warehousing, information delivery and e-business solutions for virtually every major industry, including banking, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, government, etc.

Chairman and CEO:

James H. Goodnight

Employees:

9,306 in 2003

2003 Revenue:

$1.34 billion

SAS software is developed and distributed by the SAS Institute of Cary, North Carolina. It is one of the top 10 independent software vendors in the world and the leader in decision support and data warehousing.

SAS Institute provides packaged business solutions for vertical industry and departmental applications through an integrated suite of software tools that transform the wide variety of data within organizations into useful information at more than 40,000 business, government and university sites in 115 countries. SAS sells business intelligence software. It takes huge amounts of complex data and makes something useful out of it. Marriott uses it to monitor its frequent-guest program. The government uses it to analyze the Census.

Dr. Jim Goodnight,

SAS cofounder, president & CEO

SAS software, with its wide variety of tools and modules, can rapidly draw data from a variety of platforms and applications, drawing together unique data trends of information for decision making and application development.

Millions of records can be rapidly analyzed, allowing a constant inflow of data to be repeatedly organized. This allows decision makers the unique ability to evaluate trends, to make sense of vast amounts of data, allowing for accurate and timely decision making.

The SAS Institute's mission is to deliver superior software and services that give people the power to make the right decisions. Their goal is to be the most valued competitive weapon in business decision making. SAS is in its third decade of double-digit annual growth. Some 3.5 million users have seen the power of SAS in turning raw data into refined insights.

Knowledge Development Centers

SAS's analytics software can help companies predict customer behavior for marketing campaigns, determine future supplier reliability or anticipate manufacturing problems. SAS has more than 3.5 million users worldwide, including 97 of the top 100 companies on the Forbes Super 500.

1. Supports virtually any data format

SAS software solutions access data from almost every platform in the computing world today. In addition to reading raw data, SAS software can use or convert system files created by other statistical or database packages.

2. Cross Platform support

SAS software is available for most major operating platforms. In addition, customized SAS programs written for one platform are easily converted to others. SAS Facts

The SAS Institute campus now includes 16 buildings.

10,000 employees and 200 offices worldwide.

Annual employee turnover is under 4 percent, incredibly low, unheard of in any industry.

When SAS originally went to incorporate, SAS Inc. was already taken, so that is the only reason their official name is SAS Institute Inc.

The SAS Institute campus goes through 22.5 tons of M&Ms per year (a company perk)

Ninety-nine percent of the top 100 companies and 90 percent of the overall Fortune 500 are SAS customers.

3. Long-term commitment to R & D

SAS Institute reinvests nearly one third of its revenue back into research and development ensuring its customers up to date advancements in an ever changing business environment.

4. Extensive software suite

SAS software provides an integrated suite of information delivery tools that allow companies to transform a wide variety of internal data into information that's useful in decision making.

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