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February 8, 2006

SAS Strong In Advanced Analytics, Data Access For BI Reporting And Analysis Platforms

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q1 2006

by Keith Gile

with Connie Moore, Lucy Fossner


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

SAS's SAS9 BI v9.1.3 provides a solid business intelligence (BI) product for analytic reporting, but has clear limitations in enterprise reporting. The product provides comprehensive data access to most RDBMSes and MDDBs, along with mainframes and legacy apps, as well as advanced analytics in data mining and predictive analytics. Other strengths include solid metadata development and security capabilities with improved usability and Microsoft Office integration capabilities. However, SAS is the only tier-one BI vendor that does not have a viable enterprise reporting solution to complement its analytic reporting capabilities, which makes SAS less attractive to companies looking to standardize on a single reporting solution. Based on our analysis, SAS is a strong performer in analytic reporting and a contender in enterprise reporting with a greater emphasis on analytic reporting.

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Technology: Business Intelligence, Data Mining & Advanced Analytics, Information & Knowledge Management
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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The Forrester Wave™: BI Reporting And Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006


View vendor summaries for other vendors in this Forrester Wave: Actuate, Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion Solutions, Information Builders, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, Oracle, SAP, and SAS



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