Business intelligence top tech priority, says SAS MD

Business intelligence is now a higher priority than IT security in many companies as they look to get more out of the data they have accumulated in order to perform better.
That’s the view of Michael Kearney, newly installed managing director at SAS Ireland. “Business intelligence has come right to the fore: security was the number one business issue, now it’s business intelligence,” he said. “The business has changed from tools, such as reporting. Now it’s about business issues, whether it’s credit risk, fraud or IT performance.”

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SAS steps up BPM push

Business intelligence (BI) software giant SAS last week continued its push into the business performance management (BPM) space, unveiling two new suites designed to help firms optimise profitability and better manage analytical models assessing future performance. SAS Profitability Management suite is due to launch before the end of the year. It is designed to offer executives an overview of the profitability of individual products, customers, channels or branches, as well as the drivers impacting that profitability. At its annual Better Management Live event in Las Vegas, SAS said that visibility over granular customer data, coupled with the ability to predict the future profitability of an individual customer using analytical tools, would let managers target the most profitable customers.

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