Apparel Praises SAS' Retail Solutions for Innovation, Return on Investment; Magazine's Customer Survey Says SAS Leads the Software Industry in Innovation and Strategic Value for Retailers.CARY, N.C. -- SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , the leader in business intelligence, announced today that Apparel has ranked it as one of the outstanding global software and services vendors for retail and apparel manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation in the magazine's inaugural "Software Scorecard" survey. The high marks SAS received came from the votes of executives responsible for IT decisions, with customer satisfaction heavily weighted at 60 percent followed by breadth and scope of apparel solutions. The Scorecard is designed to increase visibility of and knowledge about leading software vendors serving the apparel marketplace. It introduces the first head-to-head head-to-head adv. & adj. 1. In direct confrontation or conflict at close quarters: The two brothers went at it head-to-head. It was a head-to-head contest all the way. 2. comparison of the top software vendors specific to the apparel/retail industry. The Scorecard considered customer satisfaction through 12 key metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. . SAS placed No. 1 in Innovation and ranked in the top 5 percent for Apparel/Retail Functionality. SAS also ranked in the top 10 percent in Strategic Value, Return on Investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ), Quality of Support and Quality of Service, with 72 software vendors participating in the Scorecard survey. "The strong ratings for SAS in Apparel's Software Scorecard survey are no doubt a reflection of the firm's engaged apparel customer base that are leveraging the company's technology to achieve their strategic goals," said Kathy Kathy is a feminine first name. It may refer to: In sports:
"It is very rewarding to have our success validated val·i·date tr.v. val·i·dat·ed, val·i·dat·ing, val·i·dates 1. To declare or make legally valid. 2. To mark with an indication of official sanction. 3. by our retail customers in Apparel's Scorecard survey. We are committed to continuing our leadership position in bringing innovative business solutions to the apparel/retail industry through our comprehensive enterprisewide business intelligence (BI) software," said Lori Lo´ri n. 1. (Zool.) Same as Lory. Schafer, Vice President of SAS' Global Retail Practice. "Our high rating in this Scorecard Survey is evidence of our widespread success around the world in creating customer confidence through the solutions we deliver to retailers every day. We will continue offering retailers and apparel suppliers the out-of-the-box thinking Noun 1. out-of-the-box thinking - thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity divergent thinking that has distinguished SAS as the leader in business intelligence in Apparel magazine's Scorecard survey, as well as throughout our company's 30-year history." The complete Apparel Scorecard Survey appears online at www.apparelmag.com and in the print edition of Apparel's May 2006 issue. For more information on SAS and its enterprisewide intelligence solution suite for the retail industry, visit SAS at www.sas.com/retail. About Apparel Apparel magazine offers technology and business insight from concept to consumer, providing competitive, actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. information to executives representing the world's most successful apparel brands, retailers and manufacturers. Its targeted content addresses Retail Intelligence, Supply Chain, Sourcing and Logistics, Concept-to-Spec and Fiber-to-Fabric. An Edgell Communications publication, Apparel also produces the Apparel Executive Forum, Apparel's Tech Conference, Apparel Sourcing Expo-Asia, numerous Wweb seminars, the Apparel e-Newsletter and apparelmag.com. The award-winning Apparel has been published continuously since 1959. About SAS SAS is the leader in business intelligence software and services. Customers at 40,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight into vast amounts of data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products. Only SAS offers leading data integration, intelligence storage, advanced analytics and traditional business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R). www.sas.com SAS and all other SAS Institute SAS Institute Inc., headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig. Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. (R) indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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