SAS leads predictive and advanced analytics with commanding share, says analyst report

SINGAPORE (Oct. 5, 2016) – SAS again tops all predictive and
advanced analytics suppliers, according to the IDC report, IDC Worldwide Business
Intelligence and Analytics Tools Software Market Shares, 2015: It’s Still About
Self-Service.[1]

With the most recent study showing SAS with a
31.6 percent share for 2015, the company has always held the largest share in
advanced and predictive analytics software (table 3), and has demonstrated
continued growth since IDC began tracking the market in 1997.

“SAS is committed to developing analytics
software that delivers value to our customers today and will continue to do so
in the future,” said Saurabh Gupta, SAS Director of Analytics Product
Management.

“Every day, we listen to our customers and
build software that our customers can grow with. This includes innovation in
analytic methods and analytic processing, including improved ease of use.”

SAS reinvests more than 20 percent of annual
revenue in research and development, a strategy designed to foster innovation.
With 2015 revenue of $3.16 billion, SAS allocated more than $790 million into
research and development last year.

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SAS is the leader in analytics. Through
innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and
services, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions
faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO
KNOW®.

[1] doc #US41583616, July 2016