Mumbai, March 3: The $1 billion data warehousing and data mining company, SAS Institute is aiming to achieve a 70 per cent growth in India for the next five years through aggressive marketing and introduction of new products. The company says that it will focus on providing solutions on customer relationship management, e-intelligence and collaborative business intelligence in the country.SAS Institute launched its data warehousing software, Version 8 of SAS System with new features. The new version is designed for building intelligent information delivery architecture. At present, the company has clients like Hutchison Max, BPL, Pfizer, RBI and Cheminor. A senior company official said that SAS India at present contributes a small percentage of the global operations but soon will play a more active role. "We are expecting a growth at 70 per cent each year for the next 5 years," he said.
The new software version has the flexibility to process huge volumes of data and provides intelligent data users through desktops, web or mobile phones. The Version 8 also embraces middleware technologies such as Com, DCom and Corba and various messaging systems to provide a platform dependent system. Other features include hybrid online analytical process (OLAP) multi-dimensional database.
SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies and believed to be considering going public soon. SAS invests around 31 per cent of its turnover in research and development worldwide.
"We are targeting a sales turnover of $3 billion in another couple of years and with the Internet revolution taking place, it is quite achievable," SAS Institute Asia Pacific Latin America chief technology officer, Bill Gibson said.
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