Business & Decision, the European consulting and data engineering company specialising in Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-Business, today announced that it has been presented with the “Gold Partner” award by SAS, the market leader in business intelligence and business analytics.
The award was presented to Business & Decision at the recent SAS Forum International which took place in Lisbon on 21-23 June 2005 and was attended by more than 2600 delegates. SAS recognizes every year partners that have developed strong expertise in SAS solutions and have been successful in winning and delivering SAS value proposition to clients.
Business & Decision Group developed close relationship with SAS in the Benelux countries establishing dedicated centres of competence for Risk Management and Marketing Automation. Major projects in the financial industry were secured and successfully implemented.
Through its offices in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the Business & Decision Group employs over 1000 consultants, of which more than 100 experts in SAS technologies.
A reputable competence in Risk Management and Basel II
"The vertical solutions developed by SAS have very interesting specific applications such as risk management, finance, combating fraud and customer relationship management”, comments Ada Sekirin, Director at Business & Decision. “By combining the SAS analytical platform with the functional and technical expertise of our consultants and exploiting our successful partnership with SAS, the Business & Decision Group has built solid competencies in risk management, Basel II compliance, fraud detection and data mining.”
At SAS Forum International, Mike Hamm, Head of Channels and Alliances at SAS EMEA commented “The excellent joint work between Business & Decision and SAS in the Benelux has promoted innovative solutions specifically for customers from the financial sector such as Fortis Bank. By taking advantage of the Best Practices in Benelux we can expand our successful cooperation in other countries for the benefit of both organizations and our international client community”.
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 more than 40,000 sites – including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500® – 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 ®. . For more information visit www.sas.com.
About Business & Decision:
Business & Decision specialises in providing solutions and related consultancy in Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business and Management Consulting. Founded in 1992 and listed on the Euronext Paris (ISIN code FR 00000 7895 8 / BND), the Group has a reputation for its functional and technological expertise and has forged partnerships with the key technology vendors. Business & Decision currently employs over 1,000 consultants throughout the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Switzerland and Spain and has implemented over 1,200 projects at 850 client sites. For more information, visit www.businessdecision.com.
Press Contact for the Netherlands:
John Simmerman
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Business & Decision Netherlands BV
Tel: +31 (0)20 580 67 30
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