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SAS today announced it is shipping a newly enhanced version of the SAS Enterprise BI Server, a major component of the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform, to users worldwide. SAS provides the industry's most comprehensive offering, complete with easy point-and-click reports, while at the same time delivering more breadth and depth than conventional BI vendors such as Business Objects and Cognos. SAS creates a higher level of business intelligence by making fast and simple access to information available to a wide range of enterprise users. SAS Enterprise BI Server delivers reports on time, on demand and on target, reducing the time spent looking for answers and making more time available for driving decisions and results. Since SAS Enterprise BI Server delivers critical information in intuitive ways, users can take those insights to make better decisions faster. No other BI provider delivers OLAP storage and mapping capabilities integrated with a BI tool offering. In this enhancement, SAS created a more sophisticated level of analytics-driven business intelligence with easy and fast access to data for users everywhere in the enterprise. "SAS brings BI to the masses with simplified user interfaces, so now everyone at every level of an organization can use this information to solve challenges quickly and easily," said Dawn Kung, Regional Director, SAS Greater China. "In addition, our BI offering is built to support IT's need to manage and maintain data and applications efficiently." The enhanced SAS Enterprise BI Server delivers an integrated and comprehensive suite of BI capabilities -- including reporting, query and analysis, OLAP, integrated analytics, visualization, and Microsoft Office integration -- all using consistent metadata across the suite. Using targeted BI interfaces that support individual needs, the SAS Enterprise BI Server empowers all information producers and consumers.