The Accenture SAS Analytics Group

The Accenture SAS Analytics Group was formed to address predictive analytics, the next generation of management science. Predictive analytics is for senior executives who want to gain actionable insights from their data, make better decisions and improve their business outcomes. The Accenture SAS Analytics Group will jointly build, market, sell, deliver and manage predictive analytics software solutions and services, a first for both companies. Our two companies are investing together in the development of solutions focused on industry-specific predictive analytics applications, starting with the financial services, health care and public service sectors; as well as cross-industry solutions in the customer and enterprise management domains.

In addition to delivering these offerings as traditional services, we plan to introduce a new business model for delivering sophisticated analytical capabilities as a managed service.

Initially, the Accenture SAS Analytics Group plans focus on the following industry analytics solutions:

• Financial Services: Banking (for example, credit risk and fraud) and Insurance, e.g. as predictive claims processing).
  
  
• Health Care Analytics: Payer/provider (claims and care management) and pharmaceuticals (clinical data management analytics).
  
  
• Public Service: Federal (for example, cyber security) and human services/revenue (for example, fraud/waste/error analytics).

New cross-industry functional solutions are planned for:

• Customer acquisition and retention
• Enterprise analytics

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world “The Power to Know”.

Accenture and SAS are bringing their independent market-leading skills together to jointly develop offerings that will enable businesses and government entities to significantly improve their decision processes for better, more accurate business outcomes.

• Accenture offers proven market leadership in consulting, technology and outsourcing—delivered anywhere around the globe at scale.
  
  
• Accenture provides a comprehensive portfolio of more than 100 industry, cross-industry and function-specific analytical offerings. More than 200 assets include proven standards and industry-leading practices, automated development tools and reusable architecture components.
  
  
• The Accenture Global Delivery Network facilitates the industrialization of solutions through automation, the reuse of solutions and continuous improvement from more than 50 centers around the world.
  
  
• SAS offers an integrated suite of analytics software unmatched in the industry, delivered in a single environment.
  
  
• SAS software is interoperable—open without limitation to specific hardware and operating systems—to minimize client expenditures.
  
  
• IDC ranked SAS No. 1 in advanced analytics tools. ₁
  
  
• Gartner recognizes SAS as a “Magic Quadrant Leader” in customer data mining.

₁ IDC, “Worldwide Advanced Analytics Tools Revenue by Vendor, 2006-2008” (followed by SPSS and Microsoft).