SAS' new mission: PM

Optimized for the SAS9 Intelligence Platform, the new version of SAS Activity-Based Management is designed to enable users to test performance improvement initiatives for financial and operational viability before they are implemented.

SAS says Activity-Based Management integrates with existing financial and operational systems to generate cost and profitability models that support better overall decision making and supply insightful key performance indicators for performance management.

The company further claims Activity-Based Management customers have a competitive advantage that improves performance by achieving greater profits, containing costs, and predicting costs and resource requirements accurately.

SAS further adds that the integrated solutions on the new SAS9 Intelligence Platform, supported by nearly three decades of vertical industry expertise, are helping to redefine performance management. In May, the company launched SAS Marketing Automation and Risk Management. Additional SAS9 solutions that will be available at the beginning of the fourth quarter include: Strategic Performance Management, Financial Management and Supplier Relationship Management. SAS Human Resource Management will be available in the first quarter of 2005.