New Partnership with SAS

Heidelberg/Munich, 13 Jul 2009 - SAS, one of the world’s largest software manufacturers, and b.telligent, one of the leading consultants for business intelligence in Central Europe, have formed a partnership. The partners focus on larger medium-sized businesses; together, they are seeking to gain customers for analytics and CRM projects. The basis is the SAS solution for medium-sized businesses, edition M. “We are happy to have gained SAS as partner. b.telligent’s industry know-how and knowledge about methods as well as the performant SAS technology will round each other off in the joint projects” says Sebastian Amtage, director of b.telligent.

In the scope of the cooperation, the consultants of b.telligent will be consequently trained and certified for the latest version of the SAS technology. The customers of the Munich-based management consultancy will thus fully benefit from the progress of the SAS solution. “New functions of established software sometimes create quantum leaps in the approach to analytical questions. If they are not utilized, the business is wasting optimization potential which it actually acquired with the license”, says Amtage.

“The portfolio for medium-sized businesses of both partners rounds each other off perfectly. The industry know-how, combined with the technology of SAS and b.telligent’s high permeation of larger medium-sized businesses result in an altogether very attractive offer” says Jürgen-Heinrich Rohr, Director Midmarket & Channels, SAS Germany.

About SAS

With a turnover of 2.26 billion US Dollar, SAS is one of the world’s largest software manufacturers. The independent provider of business analytics software is leading in the business intelligence market. The SAS solutions for an integrated business management help businesses at more than 45,000 locations to gain specific information for strategic decisions from their various business data and to thus increase their efficiency.

With the software solutions of SAS, businesses develop and implement strategies, measure their own success, design the customer and supplier relations profitably, manage the entire organization and comply with regulatory requirements. 96 of the top 100 Fortune-500 businesses trust SAS.

The headquarters of the US-American mother company is Cary, North Carolina. SAS Germany has its head office in Heidelberg and further offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich.