SAS - Announcements, Interviews & News Stories

SAS and DataSynapse partner for Grid computing

DataSynapse, Inc., the global provider of virtual application infrastructure software, today announced that it has partnered with SAS, the market leader in business intelligence software, to offer customers a solution for managing complex, distributed applications. By bringing together DataSynapse's software with the power of SAS, customers will be able to easily improve the performance, scalability and manageability of SAS business intelligence (BI) and analytics applications across an IT environment.

14 March 2006

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SAS upgrades AML software

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today underscored its commitment to the financial services industry with the release of a new version of SAS Anti-Money Laundering. Complementing its recently announced SAS® Money Laundering Detection, the new offering includes several enhancements to help institutions worldwide fight against money laundering.

13 March 2006

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BB&T Corporation implements SAS credit risk platform

BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT) has selected SAS Credit Risk Management to enhance its portfolio and predictive modeling capabilities.

28 February 2006

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SAS releases anti-money laundering package

Money launderers aren't the only ones watching the banks. With the clock ticking at four years and counting since Sept. 11, 2001, global lawmakers are also turning a keen eye toward financial institutions of all sizes.

31 October 2005

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SAS offers automated Grid management

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced powerful new grid computing capabilities to its SAS 9 enterprise intelligence software, making it the industry's first and only solution capable of automatically grid-enabling multiple applications on a single platform.

04 October 2005

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ABI and SAS launch operational risk insurance consortium

The ABI (Association of British Insurers) and SAS, the leader in risk intelligence, today launched ORIC (Operational Risk Insurance Consortium), a new international initiative to assist the insurance industry with quantifying and managing operational risk.

26 September 2005

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Sun implements customer data warehouse at Egg

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), today announced that Egg plc has achieved a dramatic reduction in the time it takes to roll out marketing campaigns following the implementation of its new customer data warehouse (CDW), reducing data latency from 42 days to one, which has resulted in incremental sales.

20 September 2005

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JCB to adopt SAS Enterprise BI Server

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, announced today that JCB Co. Ltd., a major Japanese credit card company, will adopt SAS Enterprise BI Server for its new credit management system.

26 August 2005

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SAS enhances data and text mining software

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced that enhancements to its award-winning data mining and text mining software will ship this fall.

23 August 2005

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SAS upgrades credit scoring application

As a further commitment to the banking industry, SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced the latest and most powerful version of SAS Credit Scoring.

28 June 2005

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SAS releases OpRisk Monitor application

Regulatory measures like the New Basel Accord (Basel II) have made operational risk a top concern for financial institutions, which are now looking for ways to measure and manage their risk exposure.

17 May 2005

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SAS launches operational risk e-learning tool

SAS, the leader in business intelligence is improving Operational Risk management across the financial services industry with the launch of a new Operational Risk e-learning tool.

14 March 2005

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