Company expands its Smart City portfolio using big data analytics and IoT to help city leaders with decision making.

Dubai, UAE (23 December 2015)

SAS, the leader in analytics has been placed as a "Major Player"  in smart city analytics, according to the IDC Marketspace: Worldwide Smart City Business Analytics Software 2015 Vendor Assessment, highlighting how SAS® Analytics is helping cities improve citizen services and operational efficiency.

SAS' strong market leadership in analytics stretches back 40 years. That history, long interwoven with government agencies, is marked by an enduring commitment to customers. SAS' strategy is focused on enhancing usability, interoperability, scalability, manageability, and mobility, while, further cementing its offerings in the cloud, mobile, and the Internet of Thing (IoT) spaces.

"Internet connectivity has led to data explosion with the increasing use of connected devices. Data analytics will play a key role in the development of Smart City initiatives, encourage in the implementation of smart solutions for efficient use of available resources, infrastructure and create sustainable economy. SAS with its tailored solutions will play an important part in transforming Dubai as a world-class smart city." said Shukri Dabaghi, Regional Director, Middle East & Francophone Africa at SAS.

Mobile, cloud and Internet of Things (IoT)

Local government leaders need easy-to-use software that answers questions that matter. SAS prioritizes usability, says the IDC MarketScape, powered by investments in visualization and mobile. The company also has business cases that target specific government challenges, like transport and utilities.

"SAS is further entrenching its offerings in the cloud, mobile, and IoT spaces," reports the IDC MarketScape. "SAS has begun to implement a number of innovative IoT-enabled Smart City deployments in the water management space. In addition, SAS corporate has a keen interest in, and focus on, the open data movement that is increasingly prominent in larger global municipalities."

SAS Visual Analytics is an in-memory solution for exploring enormous amounts of data quickly. Users can spot patterns, identify opportunities for further analysis, and convey results with visual clarity. Quickly formatting large amounts of data for processing, SAS Visual Analytics lets users explore all data and not just a sample.

The IDC MarketScape characterizes SAS' global corporate culture as "heavily invested in customer satisfaction via multiple annual customer satisfaction surveys, end user forums, and so forth; SAS seeks to instill customer centricity into its strategic development."

Ascribing the astronomical growth in city data to "connected devices and, more specifically, mobile connected devices (RFID, smart cards, body cams, GPS)," the IDC MarketScape points to SAS' strengths in capacity and analytics power. The company's "offerings allow government agencies to address large volumes of data." In addition, SAS In-Memory Analytics "provides for exceptionally quick data processing speeds."

SAS offers a wide array of data management, business intelligence and analytics solutions, and collaborates with governments to create innovative offerings tailored to specific departmental and agency goals.

Learn more about the Internet of Things and 10 ways analytics can make your city smarter.

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