Fortis Retail Banking Standardizes Business Intelligence With SAS(R) Enterprise Intelligence...

Fortis Retail Banking Standardizes Business Intelligence With SAS(R) Enterprise Intelligence Platform

The Integrated Data Management and Business Intelligence
Environment of SAS(R) will help Fortis Retail Banking Reach
Double-Digit Growth Objectives
CARY, N.C.--(Business Wire)--To boost sales and service effectiveness and support double-digit
growth objectives, Fortis Retail Banking chose SAS Enterprise
Intelligence Platform from SAS, the leader in business intelligence.
The new implementation will help the company enhance the structure,
quality, richness and delivery of customer and financial data for
operational reporting, campaign management, performance management and
data mining purposes.

Since the end of 2006, Deloitte Consulting, a SAS Platinum
Consulting Partner, has supported Fortis Retail Banking in its
business intelligence (BI) journey. Before the tool selection process,
Deloitte helped Fortis Retail Banking define its BI vision, BI road
map and business case. Next came the architecture design, followed by
the tool selection process. As an independent party, Deloitte played a
crucial role during the selection process and the proof of concept. In
Belgium, Deloitte has a dedicated team of 30 business intelligence
consultants focusing on strategy and implementations.

"We extensively evaluated different architecture scenarios for
Fortis, varying from best-of-breed scenarios to a BI platform
approach. Based on this evaluation, Fortis Management selected SAS,"
said Aart Joppe, Director of the BI Practice at Deloitte.

SAS Data Integration provides prebuilt, high-performance
capabilities for data connectivity, data quality, ETL (extract,
transform and load), data migration, data synchronization and data
federation.

SAS Enterprise BI Server provides a complete portfolio of business
intelligence capabilities and applies the power of SAS Analytics and
data integration to create a complete and easy-to-use business
intelligence solution. SAS Enterprise BI Server provides a fully
integrated and comprehensive suite of business intelligence software
that addresses the needs of IT management as well as business users.

About Fortis

Fortis is an international financial services provider engaged in
banking and insurance. We offer our personal, business and
institutional customers a comprehensive package of products and
services through our own channels, in collaboration with
intermediaries and through other distribution partners. With a market
capitalization of EUR 38.2 billion (31/07/2007), Fortis ranks among
the twenty largest financial institutions in Europe. Our sound
solvency position, our presence in 50 countries and our dedicated,
professional workforce of 60,000 enable us to combine global strength
with local flexibility and provide our clients with optimum support.
More information is available at www.fortis.com.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in business intelligence and analytical software
and services. Customers at 43,000 sites use SAS software to improve
performance through insight from data, resulting in faster, more
accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with
customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations;
research breakthroughs; and better products and processes. Only SAS
offers leading data integration, storage, analytics and business
intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise
intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers
around the world THE POWER TO KNOW(R). www.sas.com

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or
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