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We aim to help every customer turn analytic insights into value. We do so by adapting to changing markets, working with disruptive technologies, and remaining relentlessly committed to innovation. This has allowed us to remain
a leader across core markets while providing innovative solutions to our customers’ most challenging business problems.” SAS CEO Jim Goodnight
2016 Financial Overview
In 2016, SAS posted US$3.2 billion in total revenue – up 4 percent in constant currency (1.3 percent USD) over 2015. New software sales increased 9 percent in constant currency (7 percent USD), signaling continued demand for SAS Analytics solutions.
Growth across regions, industries and solutions Revenues grew worldwide in all geographic regions and across SAS core technologies, including data management, analytics and business intelligence. By industry, banking, government and health care/life sciences grew most. Among SAS business solutions, fraud and security intelligence grew by 36 percent as organizations faced the imperative of ghting fraud and nancial crimes and addressing regulatory compliance in areas such as anti-money laundering.
Continuous innovation lauded by analysts
Forrester named SAS the sole leader for enterprise insight platform suites, stating that SAS o ers “best-in-class analytics coupled with a breadth of good data management for streaming, virtualization and master data management.” Underscoring this testament, SAS new software sales
in analytics, data management and foundation tools grew by 8 percent, representing more than half of total new revenue in 2016.
Analysts also named SAS a leader
in predictive and advanced analytics, customer intelligence, data manage- ment, data integration and data quality.
And SAS has been recognized as a leader in fraud detection, risk manage- ment and retail analytics. Maintaining this leadership is heavily dependent upon innovation. Year after year, SAS reinvests about twice the average of major technology rms into R&D.
This unwavering commitment to innovation is behind last year’s groundbreaking SAS Viya technology – an open and cloud-ready high- performance analytics and visualization platform dubbed by analysts as changing the industry. Looking ahead, SAS will continue innovation in its core focus areas, including analytics, visualization, data management, customer intelligence, risk and fraud. Additionally, SAS Viya, arti cial intelligence, cloud and IoT are investment areas for SAS.
Partners
SAS’ strong partner ecosystem enables SAS to give customers even more options and exibility in how they implement SAS software. In 2016, SAS partners in uenced nearly a third of new sales. SAS’ strong channel program of systems integrators, resellers, OEMs and managed analytic services provid- ers are focused on helping customers implement SAS technology in ways that best t their individual needs and those of their own customers. And as IoT gets increasingly more complex with implementations moving from theory to reality, SAS is enhancing collaboration with partners like Cisco and Intel to drive analytics adoption with IoT.
Revenue Reinvested in R&D
SAS
26%
vs.
Industry Average
12.5%