At NRF, Retailers Look to SAS(R) Retail Intelligence for More Than Window Dressing; Comprehensive SAS(R) Solutions and Big Idea Session to Be Featured at Retail's BIG Show.

CARY, N.C. -- SAS, the leader in business intelligence (BI), will highlight its latest retail intelligence offerings next week at the National Retail Federation's (NRF) 95th Annual Convention and Expo in New York City, Jan. 15-18. These SAS(R) software solutions provide retailers with the most comprehensive business intelligence platform available for improving customer relationships, increasing profitability and driving shareholder value.

"With software from SAS, retailers can go beyond the window dressing of simple reports that only show what they've done last Tuesday, last month or last year," said Lori Schafer, vice president of SAS' global retail practice. "SAS helps them organize and drill deep into their customer, merchandise and operational data to plan and market more effectively and understand where they need to go next Tuesday, next month or next year. NRF is a showcase for SAS' leading technology and nearly 30 years of retail expertise and experience."

At NRF, SAS and its Marketmax division will demonstrate BI solutions in Booth #111, including:

--SAS Customer Intelligence (http://www.sas.com/industry/retail/crm), which helps retailers identify, acquire, activate, serve and retain their most profitable customers. Specifically, SAS will be showcasing SAS Marketing Optimization and SAS Marketing Automation at NRF.

--SAS Revenue Optimization (http://www.sas.com/industry/retail/rev_opt), which helps retailers manage revenue and margin through the entire merchandise life cycle. This suite includes integrated components for regular price, promotion and markdown optimization.

--Marketmax(R) Integrated Merchandise Planning Solution (http://www.sas.com/industry/retail/merchandise/mm), which provides complete planning capabilities for the merchandising process, including performance analysis, financial planning, assortment planning, space planning, allocation and more.

--The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform (http://www.sas.com/technologies/architecture/index.html) will be emphasized throughout the NRF in demonstrations and customer meetings. SAS Retail Intelligence Solutions are built on an enterprise intelligence platform that provides comprehensive data integration, business intelligence and analytics.

At NRF, SAS is also sponsoring a Big Idea session featuring retail industry expert Jon Nordeen, Kohl's executive vice president of merchandise planning and allocation. The Big Idea session, "Improving Our Customer's Experience and Merchandise Performance with Size Optimization!", will take place Monday, Jan. 16, from 11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. in Room 3D05 on the NRF's EXPO Floor.

In addition to Kohl's, SAS customers include hundreds of leading retailers worldwide, such as Bakers Footwear, Burger King, Carrefour, The Children's Place, Fakta, Federated Department Stores, Lowe's Companies, Karstadt, Li & Fung Retailing Group, The Limited, Luxottica Retail, Marks & Spencer, Office Depot, Sainsbury's, Sport Chalet, Staples, Tesco, Too Inc., Waitrose Limited, Wal-Mart, Williams-Sonoma and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM.

About SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at 40,000 sites -- including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500(R) -- to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R). Visit us at www.sas.com.