SAS in Visionaries quadrant for Marketing Resource Management

SAS announced today that it is in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management 2008, by Gartner, Inc [i] . Gartner recently recognized SAS in the leaders quadrant in multiple magic quadrants including Multi-Channel Campaign Management [ii] , Customer Data Mining [iii] and Business Intelligence Platforms [iv] .

SAS’ strength is its ability to tie together key components of the MRM process including planning, development, measurement and optimization of marketing initiatives.

“SAS’ focus on advanced analytics and advanced planning will redefine MRM,” said Jeff Levitan General Manager, SAS Customer Intelligence. “The intelligent application of analytics is a competitive differentiator for SAS customers. SAS helps marketers make smarter marketing resource decisions.”

SAS customer CIGNA HealthCare praises SAS software’s ability to efficiently create reports and optimize its clients’ healthcare.

“Today our business is much more than simply managing claims – it is a catalyst for improving member health and associated costs,” said Tamin Ahmed, vice president of Informatics at CIGNA HealthCare. “Our ability to process, analyze and act on data is vital to helping engage our members effectively and efficiently to optimize their healthcare options. With SAS, we’re better able to implement solutions quickly to track marketing metrics and manage marketing performance. Using SAS we can save considerable amounts of highly specialized IT resources through flexible solutions developed and maintained by business resources. Best of all, the applications are easy for everyone in our company to use.”

SAS continues investing in marketing resource management with plans to continually improve content management and workflow capabilities in 2008 and beyond.