SAS claims 23 p.c. of BI s/w market in India

MUMBAI: SAS, a Business Intelligence & Analytical Software provider, today announced that it has emerged as the leader in the Business Intelligence Software market in India.

According to IDC, the Indian BI market is growing at a CAGR of 27.09% and is

expected to be over $10.55 mn market by the end of 2005. IDC India's report brings out

that SAS India is the leader in the Business Intelligence (BI) software market in India for the year 2004, with a 23% market share.

In its report, IDC has classified the Business Intelligence software market

into Data Mining Software, End-user Query, Reporting & Analysis Software and

Packaged Data-mart/Datawarehouse Software markets.

Commenting on SAS's leadership position in the BI market in India, Mr.

Sudipta K. Sen, managing director & CEO, SAS Institute (India) Pvt. Ltd.

said, "The dominant position of SAS in India is reiterated by SAS'

end-to-end enterprise business intelligence platform offering Data

Extraction, Transformation & Loading (ETL), Datawarehousing to Online

Analytical Processing & Reporting, and Analytical Intelligence."