Gartner declares SAS a leader in 2014 advanced analytics platform

In a recent publication by Gartner, it says that SAS continues to strengthen its position in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms. SAS’ ability to execute and completeness of vision in advanced analytics has enabled it to feature consistently in Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Offering the widest range of advanced analytics to yield evidence-based answers, SAS enables enterprises to measure what matters most. SAS advanced analytics reveals optimal and lucrative opportunities, exposes risks, deepens customer understanding, and delivers predictive insights that promote organizational success.

The SAS Analytics portfolio also includes innovative, in-memory analytics to support customers requiring high-performance operation to handle big data and other complex environments. SAS continually champions new and emerging technologies with its analytics, including Hadoop’s big data architecture, cloud computing deployments, improved usability and open-source R integration.

“Today, big data is transforming the way businesses operate. Deriving meaningful insights and foresights from data has become an industry-wide strategic imperative. Organizations across Indian industries are leveraging analytics to drive business objectives. I am confident that going forward organizations will continue to leverage data-driven decision-making and drive an enterprise-wide analytical culture,” said Sudipta K. Sen, Regional Director – South-East Asia, Vice-Chairman & Member of Board, SAS Institute (India).

SAS advanced analytics, combined with industry- or task-specific expertise, is the foundation for many horizontal or vertical analytics applications. These include solutions for risk management, anti-fraud, customer intelligence, retail and other domain-specific offerings.