Partners SAS

Headquarters - Cary, North Carolina
Offices: Worldwide, including international headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany

Revenue - $1.6 billion

Company profile

SAS is a market leader in high end analytics, enabling customers to turn raw data into usable knowledge. SAS offers a comprehensive integrated business intelligence platform supporting data integration, data quality, OLAP, data mining and reporting. This platform has been extended into a complete set of business-intelligence solutions that help customers create value on top of the investments they’ve already made in CRM, ERP, IT and financial operational systems and data.

Relationship with Unisys

The SAS and Unisys global alliance blends Unisys vertical market, business intelligence and data center computing expertise with the comprehensive SAS analytics and BI platform. Unisys addresses the business issues and technical demands of delivering the power of SAS intelligence across an enterprise.

Through a holistic approach, Unisys creates unprecendented visibility into how business intelligence can affect your organization's strategy, processes, applications and IT infrastructure. To address your specific business goals, Unisys helps extend the power of SAS from a few select users to the entire organization and delivers incremental value every step of the way. At the same time, Unisys ensures your SAS implementation delivers outstanding performance, flexibility, reduced cost and lowers deployment risk.

The benefits of the joint Unisys-SAS approach are:

Full service SAS enterprise BI provider: Multi-faceted focus on business goals and associated people, processes and technology which govern project success.
Cost-effective Enterprise BI: Approach to enterprise BI that works incrementally toward a total solution showing tangible ROI from each increment of work.
Single, Integrated, Enterprise-Wide Solution: Ability and expertise to implement an integrated SAS enterprise solution that addresses meaningful business requirements and evolves with the needs of the organization.
Proven SAS Scalability: The Unisys ES7000 Family of Enterprise Servers running Microsoft Windows or Linux provides the high levels of scalability, rapid growth and adaptability needed for the most demanding SAS workloads.
Optimized SAS Deployment: Simplify by deploying SAS 9 on a single, highly scalable server reducing the number of servers to manage, improving performance, flexibility and reliability.
Reduced SAS Deployment Risk: The Unisys Center of Excellence at SAS delivers specialized performance and scalability testing for SAS data warehousing, analytics and business intelligence applications and databases. The Center provides the skills and resources to help plan, prototype, deploy, and optimize SAS BI solutions using Unisys ES7000 servers.

Solutions

Preparing for Enterprise Business Intelligence: The BI Boot Camp

For organizations using or considering SAS that want to explore enterprise business intelligence, the BI Boot Camp is an ideal place to start. This one-day, cross-functional workshop provides an entertaining, educational and interactive introduction to Enterprise Business Intelligence. Covering a wide range of topics from BI myths to best practices, the workshop facilitates the reconciliation of common business and technical differences to align strategies for shared success.

The BI Boot Camp provides readiness training for organizations that:

Are beginning to look at BI and trying to figure out how to get started.
Have implemented SAS in different departments, use a number of different tools but don’t have a consistent strategy.
Are struggling to get business and IT departments on the “same page” with an overall approach for handling for managing information and reporting.
Manually support important issues such as market segmentation, fraud detection, customer retention, and profitability analysis.
Have no standard way of monitoring compliance.
Need to talk to experts who understand the pitfalls as well as best practices and can address the business strategy, process and technical aspects of BI.
For more information on the Unisys BI Boot Camp, please email: BIBootCamp@unisys.com

Unisys and SAS IT Optimization

Data centers represent a large pool of capital investments. The typical data center that might have been managing just two or three systems two decades ago is managing thousands today. This growing complexity introduces increased error rates and makes it all the harder to achieve high efficiency.

SAS and Unisys have developed IT Optimization advisory and implementation services that combine Unisys Technical Consulting Services data center expertise with specialized SAS BI tools specifically tailored to IT organizations. Through these services we deliver resource management, SLA management, financial optimization and IT reporting and communications dashboards.

Key Features and Benefits:

Comprehensive Data Collection from virtually all existing IT monitoring systems (such as, HP OpenView, Concord, BMC, Tivoli, etc.) provides integrated view of performance across entire operation.
IT Data Warehouse enables detailed analysis, predictive modeling and reporting that reduce the manual effort to understand and measure IT performance.
Demand Management & Capacity Forecasting enables accurate and long term perspective on utilization and demand requirements eliminating reactive measures.
Charge Management & Activity Based Costing allocate cost based usage by department, application or any number of criteria.
Service Level Management supports IT governance initiatives and measures delivery of service performance against specific goals and agreements.
IT Reporting Web-based Dashboards provides the instrumentation to control daily operations and communicate performance at all management levels.
Management of Entire Infrastructure provides complete and accurate visibility into all assets and applications.

The SAS and Unisys IT Optimization program gives IT the capabilities they need to support fact-based decision-making, predictable, defendable investments, avoid costs, reduce risk and achieve continually improving operational effectiveness.

For more information on the SAS and Unisys IT Optimization, email ITOptimization@unisys.com today.