Incorporated in 1976, SAS is the world's largest privately held software company with 10,101 employees in more than 400 offices spanning the globe.

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at 40,000 sites - including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500® - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data.

In 2005, SAS continued its unbroken track record of revenue growth and profitability. SAS also invested 24 percent of revenues into research and development - significantly higher than the average investment of large software companies - to support new development initiatives.