A new breed of CMOs are embracing big analytics to drive marketing and business performance. This trend towards marketing analytics is driving new sales of SAS^® Customer Intelligence solutions worldwide.

New sales of SAS Customer Intelligence solutions include A&P (U.S.); Absa Bank (South Africa); ABN Amro (Netherlands); AMX Argentina S.A. (Argentina); Ann Taylor (US); BioGen (US); B&N Bank (Russia); Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (US); Grameen Phone (India); Isbank (Turkey); ITV (UK); Medtronic (US); Nordea (Denmark); ORBIS Inc. (Japan); RCS Mediagroup (Italy); Resorts World Casino New York City (US); SUPERVALU (US); TAP Air Portugal (Portugal); Telecom Personal S.A. (Argentina); TopDanmark (Denmark); Winn-Dixie (US) and Yapi Kredi Bank (Turkey).

CMOs are investing in integrated marketing management solutions with advanced, real-time analytics. These power consistent, personalized customer experiences via traditional and digital channels.

“There is a clarion call for a more technologically savvy CMO today,” said Wilson Raj, Global Director of Customer Intelligence at SAS. “More organizations are realizing that modern marketing is a data-driven discipline. CMOs are poised to not only drive great marketing but drive broader business changes and enhance alignment across the C-suite.”

A global EIU study, sponsored by business analytics vendor SAS, found that one of the catalysts for change is technology. Eight out of the twelve areas CMOs identified for marketing investment revolve around technology such as customer analytics, CRM, social media, marketing automation, collaboration and optimization tools.

To this end, CMOs have reason to be confident in SAS. Just this year SAS was rated a leader in:

• Gartner Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Integrated Marketing Management¹
• Gartner Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management²
• Gartner Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for CRM Multichannel Campaign Management³
• Forrester Research's The Forrester Wave™: Customer Analytics Solutions, Q4 2012
• Forrester Research's The Forrester Wave™:Cross-Channel Campaign Management Platforms, Q1 2012.

About SAS

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¹ Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Integrated Marketing Management, Kimberly Collins, Adam Sarner, November 1, 2012.

² Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management, Kimberly Collins, January 30 , 2012

³ Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for CRM Multichannel Campaign Management, Adam Sarner, May 22, 2012