SAS Institute Inc.
Owners:
Jim Goodnight is the owner and CEO of the company.
Assets
The company is headquartered in Carey, North Carolina, USA.
SAS Russia/CIS
Main article: SAS Russia
A representative office of SAS in Russia and the CIS countries was opened in 1996.
Performance indicators
2018: Revenue growth in AI-based software platform solutions segment by 104.6%
According to the results of 2018, SAS demonstrated an increase of 104.6% in the segment of software platform solutions based on artificial intelligence. This is about four times the overall growth rate of the AI development market, which throughout last year also showed stable growth. The achieved indicators provided SAS with the second place in terms of revenue in the category of AI-based software platforms - revenue in this segment amounted to $89 million, SAS reported on August 14, 2019.
SAS continues to actively develop the AI direction. In the spring of 2019, the company announced its intention to invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence technologies over the next three years. This is 26% of SAS's annual revenue - that is, the investment volume will be twice as high as that of the largest IT companies on average, the company emphasized. The investment plan involves the development and implementation of new software solutions, educational programs, expert services, etc.
History
2021: Failure to sell SAS Institute to Broadcom
In mid-July 2021, it became known about the negotiations on the sale of SAS Institute to semiconductor giant Broadcom. The companies were close to concluding a deal, but the founders of the developer of business intelligence tools changed their minds to sell SAS literally at the last moment. About this newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) told several people familiar with the situation.
According to the WSJ, as well as Bloomberg, the possibility of selling SAS to Broadcom for about $15-20 billion was discussed. At the same time, Bloomberg's interlocutors clarified that the risk of disruption of negotiations remained.
By July 2021, the number of SAS personnel exceeds 12.5 thousand people. The company's founders James Goodnight and John Sall, who own 66% and 33% of the shares, respectively, remain the company's executives. SAS began with the development of data analysis software and grew into a large manufacturer, whose portfolio includes popular products for artificial intelligence, analytics and data management.
According to the WSJ, James Goodnight and John Sall ultimately decided not to sell the company. At the same time, as the newspaper notes, it is unclear whether a new applicant for the purchase of SAS will appear.
If the SAS deal were made, it would be one of several major acquisitions for Broadcom, which in recent years has become a supplier of IT equipment and software infrastructure technologies. Earlier, the corporation acquired an infrastructure supplier software CA Technologies for $18.9 billion, a developer software for cyber security Symantec Enterprise for $10.7 billion and a manufacturer of network systems Brocade Communications Systems for $5.5 billion. Although most of Broadcom's revenue comes from chips, the company is increasingly paying attention to the software business.[1]
2019: Investing $1 billion in artificial intelligence
On March 18, 2019, SAS announced plans to invest about $1 billion in artificial intelligence, designed for use in its own analytical platform, training data processing specialists and conducting research and development. New SAS technologies will be used to meet industry-specific challenges.
The announced investment will be carried out for three years, starting in 2019. It will be part of the company's efforts to strengthen its reputation. SAS is considered a pioneer in the field of data analysis and processing, but a private company is rebuilding its business and products without public publicity, the publication notes. ZDNet
forNew SAS investments will focus on AI research and development, as well as educational initiatives such as certification and intelligent data training. Another area of work will be services that increase the return on projects.
SAS's work in the field of artificial intelligence will focus on integrating relevant technologies into the company's platform and creating tools for data management, analysis of customer behavior, fraud, security and risk management.
The company will also seek to combine artificial intelligence and Internet of Things data for use in markets ranging from the financial sector to manufacturing and healthcare.
As the operating and technical officer of SAS Oliver Schabenberger told ZDNet, in recent years the company "was not so noticeable as it could be", however she makes turn towards SaaS, connecting the platform with other analytical tools being guided by the markets better.[2]
2018: IoT Analytics Unit Opening
SAS in February 2018 announced the opening of an IoT analytics division. Employees of the global division will focus on expertise in the development of analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT) in strategic industries - retail, industry, healthcare and the transport industry.
According to the company, the reasons for creating this division were the growth in revenue from the sale of IoT solutions by 60% in 2017, the potential for the development of Internet of Things analytics and wide business opportunities, taking into account the increase in the number of connected devices in the world.
The department combines the resources of R&D, marketing, sales support specialists. Its goal is to continue developing, supplying and supporting software for the Internet of Things. In addition, employees of the division will centrally accumulate best practices and provide expertise in key industries in which IoT is developing the fastest: industry, retail, insurance and healthcare, fuel and energy companies and transport.
In recent years, SAS has developed a whole stack of specialized analytical technologies that are necessary for monetizing platforms, IoT said Julius Goldberg, Director of Innovation at SAS Russia/CIS. - Most customers are gradually developing an understanding that the analytical component is critical to get real returns from IoT. Therefore, for SAS, it is quite logical to combine all our technologies used in IoT into a single platform and form a specialized unit that will purposefully develop it. The inclusion of experts from various industries in this team will allow us not only to offer customers a IoT platform, but also to form specialized industry solutions for them to optimize specific processes using the Internet of Things. |
2017: Record revenue
In 2017, SAS revenue amounted to a record $3.24 billion, an increase of 1.25% compared to 2016. The company attributes this rise, albeit small, to high demand for artificial intelligence technologies, machine learning, cloud solutions, as well as risk management and anti-fraud systems.
Revenue in Russia jumped 40% (more).
Most of the SAS turnover - about 49% in 2017 - fell on the countries of the Americas. The second largest region for the company remains EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), in which the provider of business intelligence solutions and services earned 36.5% of revenue. The share of the Asia-Pacific region was 14.5%. At the same time, the largest growth rates of the client base were recorded in the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America.
From the SAS report it follows that the lion's share of revenues (28% at the end of 2017) of the company comes from bank customers. The top three profitable customers include representatives of government agencies (16%) and the service sector (12%). Insurance companies brought the vendor 9% of revenue. It is claimed that all the world's largest companies included in the Fortune 500 rating use SAS services.
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SAS's annual revenue in the field of risk management increased by 35%, which indicates the return on investment here and the desire of more companies to create a culture in which all risks are predicted, allowing them to comply with legal requirements and evaluate the effectiveness of investments, the company notes.
In 2017, SAS reinvested 26% of its revenue in research and development, while the market average is 26%.[3]
2016
Revenue growth in Russia by 40%
On February 21, 2017, SAS reported income for the previous year. The company noted the preservation of high growth rates of Russian business.
At the end of 2016, SAS revenue on a global scale amounted to $3.2 billion, which is 4% more than a year ago. Sales of the company in Russia and the CIS countries jumped by more than 40%, despite the difficult economic situation in the country and unfavorable market trends.
Over the past five years, we have reached an annual growth of at least 30% in Russia and the CIS. At the end of 2016, our revenue grew almost one and a half times, "said Valery Pankratov, head of SAS Russia/CIS . |
In 2016, it was 20 years since SAS entered the Russian market. In this anniversary year, the company mastered the segments of healthcare and cloud analytics, and also opened a representative office in Kazakhstan.
In 2016, SAS implemented projects in Russia and the CIS in such areas as client analytics (at Sberbank), risk management (at VTB), automation of the credit pipeline and the transfer of the existing underwriting system to SAS solutions (at several other banks). In addition, the company noted projects to automate risk management, internal control and audit processes at Rosneft and Rostelecom.
SAS has implemented more than 10 cloud analytics projects based on BaaS, SaaS and RaaS models. So that Russian companies can personally see how analytics can change their work, what it can give advantages and results, SAS invested in the creation of an innovation center in Moscow.
Based on the first results of customer visits, we can confidently say that this new model of interaction with our customers is very effective. The attitude towards projects is changing, the vision and roadmaps are expanding, "said Anton Zayats, Director of Business Development at SAS Russia/CIS. |
SAS in the top three employers in the world
In 2016, SAS entered the top three leaders in the ranking of the best employers in the world[4], which annually makes up the Great Place to Work Institute. For the fourth year in a row, SAS ranks second in this ranking and has been one of the first two for six years. At the same time, SAS has been included in the list of the best 25 employers in the world regularly, since the founding of the Great Place to Work Institute in 1980.
Even at the stage of its formation, SAS management traced the connection between satisfied employees and successful business and always paid great attention to corporate culture and working conditions in the company. Due to the low rate of staff outflows, the company manages to save millions of dollars annually, reducing the cost of attracting and training new specialists. In turn, the company's customers can be confident in long-term relations with SAS experts at all stages of cooperation.
The company pays great attention to the development of regional offices and the spread of corporate culture in them. "The HR policy of the Russian office is based on the fundamental principles practiced by the corporation in the field of personnel management. For our business to succeed, it is critical to have the best intelligence and data management professionals. At the same time, attracting and retaining high-class specialists is a very difficult task for us, especially in conditions of acute shortage of such specialists in the Russian market and constant "hunting" for them by our competitors and customers. Nevertheless, we are successfully coping - today the level of staff outflow in our company is only 5%, "comments Sanina Yulia, Director of Personnel at SAS Russia/CIS.
2014: Revenue $3.09 billion
In 2014, global revenue amounted to $3.09 billion. Gartner recognized SAS as the market leader in its magic quadrants for assortment management, integrated marketing management, data quality management, data integration, operational risk management, and others. According to IDC, SAS still holds more than 35% of the market for in-depth analytics tools, maintaining a two-fold gap from the nearest pursuer, and is also the number one player in credit risk management. Forrester Research named SAS the market leader in flexible BI platforms, the market leader in planning solutions in retail and other segments. The research company Chartis recognized SAS as the winner of the RiskTech100 rating, the leader of the quadrant of solution providers for operational risk management, and the leader in the field of anti-fraud solutions.
In 2014, SAS made efforts to launch a comprehensive analytical software that allows you to use the Hadoop platform to process big data (the need from customers for this has been growing steadily). The line of in-memory interactive analytics products in Big Data architecture was supplemented by SAS Visual Statistics and SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop.
The line of application solutions for risk management has been supplemented by the new SAS Enterprise Limit Management, which allows you to centrally manage limits throughout the financial institution.
The demand for various applied analytical solutions depends heavily on the economic situation and the associated conditions and requirements for the business. In 2014, in many sectors of the Russian economy, there were changes in the prioritization of tasks solved using analytics.
So, in the financial sector, solutions for client analytics, debt collection, fraud detection and prevention have become relevant. The tasks of optimizing the credit process and improving risk management systems also came to the fore.
In 2015, according to SAS forecasts, growth will continue in the segments of cloud analytics, business intelligence, data visualization, data management and Hadoop, customer base analysis, analysis for security, fraud prevention and risk management.
2013: Sales exceeded $3 billion (+ 5.2%)
Revenue in 2013 overcame the $3 billion mark, showing an increase of 5.2% compared to the previous year. The share of SAS business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) increased to 41.4 percent due to its decrease in other regions: Asian countries accounted for 11.9%, and the states of the American continent - 46.7% of the company's total revenue.
Revenue of $3.02 billion in 2013 was achieved largely due to the concentration on big data tools based on high-performance analytics (SAS High-Performance Analytics) technologies, on visualization tools now available for all types of mobile devices (Visual Analytics), on the most popular industry business tasks.
The company's revenue grew in all regions, in all major categories of products and industries. You can especially highlight the increase in revenue for fraud detection and prevention solutions (by 44% in all industries), Business Intelligence, including big data visualization (19.6%), in the field of energy and oil and gas (18%), health care (17%), for financial markets (16%).
Revenue from services provided by consultants increased by 60% compared to 2012.
2012
Sales $2.87 billion
SAS's total revenue in 2012 reached $2.87 billion, adding 5.4% compared to the previous year. Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) account for 41% of the revenue received, Asia - 12%, and the Americas - 47%. The growth rate of SAS's income in Russia and the CIS countries exceeded the global indicator many times and was significantly ahead of the growth rate of the Russian business analytics market in 2012, which, according to preliminary estimates, increased by 19%.
As for the employer, 2012 was a record year for SAS in terms of number and level of victories. The company was among the best employers in 17 countries of the world, and according to the results of a world study of Great Place to Work, which studies the working conditions in more than 5,600 companies and the opinions of more than 2.5 million employees, SAS took 1st place, becoming the best international employer.
SAS High-Performance Analytics Line Release
The breakthrough of 2012 for the company was the release of a full line of high-performance analytical tools SAS High-Performance Analytics.
On the high-performance SAS platform, a number of application solutions were implemented:
- SAS High-Performance Risks - for high-performance calculation of portfolio risk level in capital markets;
- SAS High-Performance Markdown Optimization - to calculate the optimal cost and discounts for retail;
- SAS High-Performance Marketing Optimization - to determine the optimal offer for each customer;
- SAS High-Performance Liquidity Risk Management - for high-performance liquidity risk calculation;
- SAS High-Performance Stress Testing - to assess the company's resilience to various negative factors;
- SAS High-Performance Anti-Money Landing and other solutions for combating financial crime and laundering of proceeds of crime.
The advantages of high-performance SAS analysts have already been appreciated by dozens of companies around the world, including Bank of America and HP, as well as independent experts. So, the research company Forrester Research, in a report published earlier this year on the research Forrester Wave: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, dedicated to the tools of predictive analytics for working with "big data," calls SAS an undisputed and unwavering leader in the field of analytical solutions for "big data."
Research firm Chartis Research named SAS a leader in Basel III compliance solutions. Gartner Research experts have placed SAS in the quadrant of leaders in EGRC (Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance) class solutions. Thanks to the new SAS Visual Analytics system and the long-recognized SAS JMP, the company was recognized as the leader in the market for advanced data visualization tools. The capabilities, ease of use and potential of SAS DataFlux Data Management Platform data management technology have enabled SAS to become the leader in the Gartner quadrant in data quality management tools.
The excitement of interest around the world last year was caused by the capabilities of text analytics SAS. Government and commercial organizations use SAS Text Analytics to analyze complaints and complaints, combat fraud, analyze preferences and predict demand and other tasks related to analyzing unstructured information. Several pilot projects in the field of text analytics have also been successfully launched in Russia and the CIS countries, and this work will continue in 2013.
2011: Sales growth by 12% to $2.7 billion
Total SAS revenue in 2011 showed double-digit growth, soaring by 12% and reaching a record $2.725 billion. Income was distributed as follows:
- America accounted for 46%;
- Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) - 42%;
- in the Asia-Pacific region - 12% of the company's total income.
SAS Russia/CIS revenue grew several times faster than SAS total revenue in 2011.
2008: The world's largest private software developer
As of 2008, SAS is the largest private (non-stock offering) software developer in the world. The company employed 11,008 people.
SAS's revenue in 2008 is $2.26 billion (an increase of 5.1%, in 2007 - $2.15 billion). SAS revenue in Russia and the CIS in 2008 is $35 million (an increase of 26%).
The countries of the region EMEA (, Europe the Middle East and) Africa account for 45% of total income. At the same time, the share of SAS sales in Central and Eastern (CEE Europe) countries in the total EMEA sales is 10%.
- to America - 43%,
- in the Asia-Pacific region - 12%.
SAS's revenue in 2008 is $2.26 billion (an increase of 5.1%, in 2007 - $2.15 billion). SAS revenue in Russia and the CIS in 2008 is $35 million (an increase of 26%).
Countries in the region EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) account for 45% of total income. At the same time, the share of SAS sales in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the total EMEA sales is 10%.
- to America - 43%,
- in the Asia-Pacific region - 12%.
Of the total SAS sales in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), 34% are in Russia and other CIS countries. They are distributed as follows:
- 85% - Russia,
- 12% - Kazakhstan,
- 2% - Ukraine.
Learn more about income in the CIS here.
The management of the company does not forget about the staff and tries to make people happy with their work. The little pleasures of working at the company as of 2008 included such things as free fruit on Mondays, free breakfasts on Fridays, "M & M-day" on Wednesday and free juice and soda machines in offices. On the SAS campus there is a kindergarten working on the Montessori System, a center for beauty and health, many other programs are implemented in order to make the work as comfortable as possible. As a result, SAS is often included in the lists of the best companies in Best place to work research.
2007:45 thousand customers in 109 countries
The company's annual revenue in 2007 reached $2.15 billion. The company's representative offices operate in 109 countries and support more than 45,000 customers around the world. Due to the fact that the company is private and does not have to worry about its stock prices, unusually most of SAS's annual income, about 25%, goes to research and product development. This affects the fact that in terms of functionality, SAS products, according to many analysts, are one of the strongest.
1980: Opening of an office in Europe and relocation of headquarters
In 1980, the first SAS representative office outside the United States was opened - the SAS European Office, located in the UK. A few years later, this office moved to the city of Heidelberg in Germany.
In the same period, the head office settled on its new campus, located on 80 hectares in Carey, North Carolina, where it is located to this day.
1976: Company Foundation and First Product
SAS was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helvig. Initially, the name SAS is an acronym from the Statistical Analysis System, which over time began to be used as the name of its own to refer to both the company itself and its products, which have long gone beyond the scope of simple tools for statistical analysis.
The first basic SAS product, released in 1976, was used for statistical data analysis. The software package consisted of several modules that ran on. mainframes IBM In addition to the standard practice for mainframe programs in batch mode, SAS proposed an original option for that time - the window interface for developing and executing programs. The program was written in one window, the results of its work were displayed in another, and logs were displayed in the third.
As other types of computers appeared, SAS developed applications that were running in the new environment. Thus, SAS users could work on computers running any operating system. Now SAS applications can run on personal computers both network and not connected to the network.
SAS Products and Solutions
There are two categories of business analytics products - Business Intelligence and Business Analytics. Unfortunately, for historical reasons, both of these terms are translated equally into Russian, although the first describes reporting systems and relatively simple OLAP analysis, and the second describes very sophisticated tools for the mining and statistical analysis of structured and unstructured data. Although SAS has products of both categories in its arsenal, in the field of Business Analytics it is the undeniable world leader. The complexity of its methods and software products places increased demands on the partners promoting them and imposes an imprint on the business model in each country. The SAS office in Russia was opened in 1996, and over the past decade and a half, dozens of large banks and telecommunications companies have been armed with such advanced business analysis tools.
SAS offers fully customizable solutions for automation of functional areas of business - financial management, risk management, marketing, supply chain management, etc. Solutions are industry-specific.
All SAS solutions are based on a platform approach to business intelligence. The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform solves the following basic tasks:
- Integrate data from different sources with parallel cleansing of this data.
- Store data in a dedicated analytic data warehouse
- Generation and delivery to users of analytical reports of various levels of complexity.
- In-depth analytics is an environment for conducting in-depth data mining, descriptive and predictive modeling, time series forecasting, optimization, and the like.
Based on the platform, SAS solutions are built to solve the problems of functional areas of business:
- Performance Management
- Process-based management
- Consolidated financial statements
- Budgeting and financial planning
- Customer Base Analysis (Client Analytics)
- Marketing Campaign Management
- Optimizing Marketing Campaigns
- Cross-sales automation
- Customer behavioral segmentation
- Marketing Resource Management
- Credit, operational and market risk management
- Combating fraud and money-laundering
- Credit scoring
- Supply Chain Management
- Demand forecasting
Functional solutions are customized according to industry specifics for banks, insurance campaigns, telecommunications service providers, transport, energy, industrial and other companies.
Gartner highlights the following key benefits of the SAS platform:
- Unlike most other BI platform developers, SAS focuses on advanced analytics techniques such as data mining and predictive modeling. In terms of platform recognition and functionality, SAS continues to be the absolute leader ('800-pound gorilla') in the analytical applications market. Special SAS business solutions allow customers to analyze their customer base (for marketing purposes, customer retention and risk assessment), evaluate products (their direction of development, quality control and level of technical support), as well as manage corporate data - all in relation to the specifics of different industries. Customers make extensive use of the capabilities of traditional SAS BI products, but at the same time, the capabilities of its in-depth analytics are given the highest rating.
- SAS offers each customer a wide choice of ready-made business solutions - both in terms of their functionality and industry specifics. For example, the SAS Social Media Analytics solution combines several products and allows SAS customers to better understand and take into account the opinions of their customers and/or public opinion leaders. According to the results of 2009, SAS has the largest share in the market for analytical applications. Today, over 2,500 customers use more than 80 pre-built SAS BI applications.
- The main advantages of SAS, customers called the wide functionality of its solutions, data integration and the company's development strategy. The most important competitive advantage of SAS that directly affects the choice of customers is the best (among all the BI platforms considered) data integration solution. In addition, according to the results of the survey, SAS was named No. 1 by another indicator - the breadth of functionality, which is the basis of SAS's solid reputation in the field of in-depth analytics. In general, SAS customers highly appreciated the potential of the future development of the company. They especially noted the professionalism of SAS specialists, a respectful and trusting atmosphere during negotiations and sales. Not without reason, SAS has a wide base of loyal customers, many of whom have associated their careers with SAS products.
- SAS has partnered with a number of database developers (such as Terata and Netezza) to achieve computation without moving data directly to the DBMS. This not only avoids data duplication and increases performance, but also gives SAS customers the ability to increase power and increase system scalability. As a result, predictive models can operate on huge volumes of data, and with high performance.