SAS Ships Enterprise Guide w/Windows Interface

SAS Institute, a market leader in integrated data warehousing and decision support, announced shipment of Enterprise Guide, powerful client software with Windows ease of use that helps companies better leverage business intelligence resources.

Enterprise Guide makes it easier to gain new insights from information already housed in SAS data warehouses and analytic applications, as well as other data sources.

"ClickRadio needs reliable measures of customer needs and interests. With Enterprise Guide from SAS, we've been able to take a large step forward in our ability to derive and deliver business intelligence to decision makers throughout our company," said Jeffrey Connell, vice president of research at ClickRadio. "SAS gives us a state-of-the-art decision support environment."

SAS supports multiple platforms and interfaces to meet a wide range of user needs. The new Windows interface in Enterprise Guide permits companies to push the power of SAS analytics into the enterprise more deeply than ever, enabling greater leverage of a company's existing technology. Enterprise Guide users include quantitative analysts and marketing managers who devise competitive strategy for customer and supplier relationships based on the intelligence that SAS derives from market data.

"Enterprise Guide allows organizations to quickly make sense of the vast amount of data they collect on customers, suppliers and internal processes," said Gail Kramer, director of the Enterprise Client Division at SAS. "Enterprise Guide is so easy to use that virtually any employee can exploit corporate intelligence resources for decision making. Analysts will appreciate how Enterprise Guide speeds the delivery of business intelligence to support executives and other business decision makers."

Ability to access a variety of data

Enterprise Guide is part of SAS' information-anywhere strategy, allowing transparent access to information, no matter where it resides in the enterprise. Users can execute complex analytics and aggregations with pointand -click ease, returning professional and repeatable results to the client. Enterprise Guide automates key tasks - including data collection, analysis and display - and it can schedule interactive tasks to run unattended. Results can be deployed via the Web, SAS publish-and-subscribe technology, and e-mail - all with the same ease of use.

Pricing and availability

Enterprise Guide is available through SAS distribution channels. Pricing for Enterprise Guide starts at $500 per license.

About SAS

SAS Institute, one of the world's largest privately held software companies, is a leader in decision support and data warehousing, providing integrated enterprise information-delivery and e-business solutions. Founded in 1976, SAS markets packaged business solutions for vertical industry and departmental applications, as well as an integrated suite of software tools and consulting services. These allow departments and agencies to transform the wide variety of data within their organizations into information that business users and researchers need to make better decisions. SAS software and services are used at more than 33,000 business, government and university sites in 110 countries. SAS' 1999 revenues topped $1 billion. Please visit the SAS Web site: www.sas.com.

Contact SAS Institute Inc, Faye Merrideth, 919-677-8000 x4261, Faye.Merrideth@sas.com.