SAS selected 'Best in Business Solutions and Analytic Applications'

      CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2001--

      -- DM Review readers rate SAS(R) best for learning about
      customers, organization, suppliers --

      SAS Institute, the market leader in analytic customer relationship management (CRM) and data
  warehousing, today announced that it has received the 2001 DM Review Readership Award in the
  category of Business Solutions and Analytic Applications.
      In this year's reader study, SAS also placed highly in areas of CRM, data warehousing and
  business intelligence.
      "DM Review's Readership Awards reflect the ability of companies such as SAS Institute to
  provide quality products that effectively meet enterprise needs," said Jean Schauer, DM Review
  editor-in-chief. "The selected companies have developed user-identified strategic and tactical
  solutions. To provide true value in today's dynamic business climate, an organization's analytic
  applications should be fast, scalable, Web-enabled, and able to access data from a broad range of
  sources - including enterprise resource planning (ERP) or legacy systems."
      "It is very significant that SAS was selected for its business solutions and analytic applications,
  because while there are many measures of success in business, revenue growth through business
  intelligence remains the most fundamental and by far the most critical," said Jim Davis, SAS senior
  vice president and chief marketing officer. "By every leading business in every industry, the value of
  SAS software solutions is measured by the value of what our customers are able to accomplish.
  Intelligence is the one true source of sustainable competitive advantage. The value of intelligence
  doesn't depreciate, nor is it diminished by bear markets or global recessions."
      "Business Solutions and Analytic Applications clearly spans all areas of data warehouse
  administration, design, management and performance, CRM, business intelligence, data acquisition
  and integration," added Schauer. "Tools in these categories must provide a high degree of
  integration among the key business information processes - planning, budgeting, financial
  consolidation, reporting and analysis."
      Business solutions is a general term for applications, platforms, tools and technologies that
  support the process of exploring business data, data relationships and trends. Analytical
  applications are the tools that turn disparate and otherwise unusable data into a valuable resource
  for answering critical business questions. Market Perspectives Inc., a Massachusetts-based
  research firm, conducted an independent survey of DM Review readers from April through July
  2001. Survey participants were presented with eight defined product categories and asked to
  select and rate products in use in their organizations.

      About SAS

      SAS provides software and services that enable customers to transform data from all areas of
  their business into intelligence. SAS solutions help organizations make better, more informed
  decisions and maximize customer, supplier, and organizational relationships. Solutions from SAS,
  the world's largest privately held software company, are used at more than 37,000 business,
  government and university sites around the world. Customers include 98 of the top 100 companies
  on the Fortune 500 and 90 percent of Fortune 500 overall. For 25 years, SAS has been giving our
  customers The Power to Know(TM). For more information, visit http://www.sas.com .

      SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or
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  Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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