"The readers' choice issue is a must-read for information
technology (IT) decision makers within the consumer goods industry,"
said Tim Clark, managing editor, Consumer Goods Technology . In addition, the company offers
consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy
their business intelligence projects. For more information on the exact
dates, locations and details of this series, please visit:
http://support.sas. Each of these agendas require the integration of
business intelligence and business analytics, and this skill set is
what will differentiate today's great CIOs and help them to discover
new high-margin and high-service opportunities," said Thornton May,
noted IT futurist and author. in the USA
and other countries.----SAS today announced
continued financial and customer success for 2004, with annual revenue
up 15 percent over 2003 .
"In 2004, SAS generated more than $1.

CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise magazine named SAS the
winner of three individual categories in its seventh annual
Readers' Choice Awards for Best IT Products: Best Data Mining,
Best Text Analysis, and Best Predictive Modeling and Planning.

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The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ)
and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges.

SAS BI Tour to 'Share the Power' With Enterprise Users at All Levels; Live Events Showcase SAS Enterprise BI Server's Easy-to-Use Reporting Capabilities

(3)
SAS continued to expand its line of industry-specific solutions,
combining its unparalleled analytic strength with the added value of
domain expertise in such areas as banking, insurance, retail, life
sciences, telecommunications and manufacturing.S.

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"This recognition validates the
success we're seeing in the market as well as our strategy to provide
the most comprehensive and full-featured BI platform on the market
today . For more
information, please visit Consumer Goods Technology on the web at
www.
Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and
Paris, France.

"
Customer intelligence revenue, including campaign management and
marketing automation, more than doubled as a result of the fierce
competition for customers in the financial, retail and
telecommunications industries .

New sales fuel success

In the fourth quarter of 2004, customers who licensed SAS
solutions included: Aeon Credit Service Co. Census Bureau, U.

CRM magazine inducted SAS CEO Dr.

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S.com /itnextgen). Most
recently, SAS and Intel have optimized the SAS Enterprise BI Server to
take full advantage of the power, scalability and reliability of the
newest Intel server platforms.
SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC, USA. Butler Group classified SAS as outperforming this
market .

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SAS and Marketmax also continue to increase their
commitment to the retail industry by enabling superior merchandising
and faster marketing decisions. Jim Goodnight into the CRM
Hall of Fame, and SAS customer AAA Mid-Atlantic won a CRM
Elite award.5
Percent in 2005, January 14, 2005, Gartner, Inc.

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These events will also
include live demonstrations of SAS Enterprise BI Server and specific
SAS BI applications for each participant. This unique
intelligence platform helps companies do more with the resources, data
and systems that they already have, giving greater numbers of people
within those companies access to the predictive analytics and data
management capabilities of SAS. SAS shipped SAS(R)9 to nearly 20,000 sites in 2004. The company's
dedicated financial services business practice has developed specific
solutions to address the challenges created by new corporate
compliance demands. Ltd."

For the seventh straight year, DM Review readers included SAS
in the DM Review 100, a prestigious award recognizing the top
100 business intelligence software vendors. Cary, NC, USA.

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20. Each event, geared toward business leaders, IT
professionals and non -technical users, will take place in a
major-league baseball venue and will include a special autograph
session with a baseball celebrity in each city. SAS and Intel are co-sponsoring a
six-city IT Management Summit series, "Beyond Business Intelligence:
Using Enterprise Analytics to Drive Fact -Based Decisions," produced by
Computerworld. "Its competitors would be well advised to remain wary of the
company's commitments to product innovation and improving customer
relationships. We made significant investments in
hiring and new technology during a down market so that we'd be in a
strong position when the economy rebounded.
Building on this platform, SAS launched a portfolio of seven
enhanced software solutions including SAS Financial Intelligence, SAS
Marketing Automation, SAS Risk Dimensions, SAS Web Analytics, SAS
Activity-Based Management, SAS IT Management Solutions and SAS
Supplier Relationship Management. On the strength of the SAS(R)9
Enterprise Intelligence Platform and a continuing stream of
significant enhancements, SAS remains uniquely positioned to integrate
data across an organization and make intelligence available to use as
a strategic company asset .

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The "SAS Business Intelligence Tour: Share the Power" event
series, presented by SAS and Intel , kicks off in Atlanta on May 26 and
travels to eight major U.com/tour
Related to this tour is another series geared toward IT management
and prospective users of SAS. 20 in San Francisco. These events demonstrate
SAS' commitment to educational and leadership topics, featuring
commentary from such noted industry thought leaders as authors
Nicholas Carr, Tom Davenport and Robert Herbold , IT futurist Thornton
May, and various CIOs from major organizations."
(http://www. It delivers an
integrated, unmatched comprehensive suite of BI capabilities -
including reporting, query and analysis, OLAP storage, integrated
analytics, and Microsoft Office integration - all using consistent
metadata across the suite. Forrester Research noted that the
new SAS Marketing Automation solution would provide SAS with the
potential to disrupt the marketing automation software market.S.

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"
SAS Enterprise BI Server, now shipping, delivers reports on time,
on demand and on target, reducing the time spent looking for answers
and making more time available for decision making., North Carolina Office of Information Technology
Service, ORANGE FRANCE, Poway Unified School District, Stage Stores
Inc. Dept. In the CRM Analytics category, SAS was lauded as
"the best vendor in terms of predictive analytics" and for
having a large customer base that "remains among the most
loyal in the category.

About SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business
intelligence software and services that create true enterprise
intelligence . All rights
reserved.
(2) SAS Shakes up Marketing Automation, March 5, 2004, Forrester
Research
(3) Corporate Performance Management: A New Approach to Business
Control and Planning, June 2004 , Butler Group

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Our congratulations go out to Business Objects,
and to each and every winner .
BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard
for enterprise reporting .com/technologies/bi/entbiserver/

About SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business
intelligence software and services that create true enterprise
intelligence .(2)
Revenue growth for this solution validates Forrester's observation.

Maintaining its commitment to employees, for the eighth
consecutive year SAS was among the top 20 companies in the
Fortune Best Companies to Work For in America list and was
included in the newly introduced Hall of Fame, a list of the
22 companies that have appeared on every list since 1998.

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About Consumer Goods Technology

Consumer Goods Technology is the consumer goods industry's most
trusted source for information. Executives rely on the magazine to
demonstrate how information technologies improve business performance
and help generate greater responsiveness, productivity , profitability
and competitive advantage. More
information about Business Objects can be found at
www. The tour brings SAS Enterprise
BI Server directly to users who require fast and simple access to
consistent data for more accurate insights.sas.

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consumergoods. Business Objects has also built the
industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, with more
than 3,000 partners worldwide.
"Intel and SAS continue to work closely together to deliver
scalable business intelligence solutions on Intel-based platforms for
the worldwide Internet economy," said Abhi Talwalkar, vice president
and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.C. "We are committed to understanding the
industry-specific challenges of our customers and providing them with
rapid value.(1) SAS benefited from an increased focus on fast return
on investment. "The rapid adoption of our enterprise intelligence
platform and our continued revenue growth confirm our focus on
consistently delivering unmatched quality and return on investment,
and suggest ongoing success for SAS and its customers in the years
ahead.

SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are
registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc.

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With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, including
over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps
organizations gain better insight into their business, improve
decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's
business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI
industry's most complete and trusted platform for reporting, query and
analysis, performance management, and data integration.

5 billion by selling a
variety of data warehousing, integration and BI software applications,
making it one of the largest software companies in the world and a
serious competitor in the BI space," said Peter Goldmacher of SG Cowen
+ Co.
From an industry perspective, financial services continues to be
the leading source of revenue by industry, accounting for 35 percent
of industry -specific revenue for the company.
Driving new business for SAS was a series of launches beginning
with the SAS(R)9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform.

Industry recognition

SAS received numerous accolades validating its business and
employee strategies:

Deemed an important milestone in the evolution of business
intelligence applications, the SAS(R)9 Enterprise Intelligence
Platform was named to the IndustryWeek Technology and
Innovation Awards program , one of the five Technologies of the
Year for 2004 as selected by the editors. (R) indicates USA registration.

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sas. In Latin
America total revenues were also up significantly at 50 percent over
2003. of Navy - Naval Computer Incident Response
Team (NAVCIRT), Norwich Union Central Services Limited, South African
Revenue Services, Vodafone Limited, UNEDIC, University of Washington,
and Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

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The Consumer Goods Industry Heralds Business Objects Superiority Over Cognos in Annual Readers Survey

Readers considered dozens of vendors based
on their actual experience with BI products and ranked Business
Objects ahead of Cognos, Oracle, SAP, and SAS. SAS and Intel (R) are
working together to deliver enterprise business intelligence and
analytics on Intel's high -performance server platforms to help users
understand the past, monitor the present and predict outcomes for the
future. Other brand and
product names are trademarks of their respective companies. This performance marks the company's 28th
consecutive year of revenue growth and profitability. Jim Goodnight . SAS offers customers not just visibility into their data,
but also resolutions to emerging business issues that have made it to
the top of corporate agendas.
SAS' long-time global presence was reflected in strong revenue
growth across all geographies. For
nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world
The Power to Know (R).

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Through each issue of Consumer Goods
Technology and its exclusive research and other topical supplements,
readers learn how to gain market share in their B2B and B2C
operations, stay competitive, understand the needs of customers and
suppliers , and pull more value from their supply chains. "SAS is uniquely positioned to assist
next generation IT leaders with BI tool sets that will allow them to
create the future," explained May. "These are the tool sets that will
automate dreams. This optimization allows businesses of
all sizes to quickly and easily extract and analyze massive amounts of
critical business information from across the entire enterprise and
then apply it intelligently to their decision making processes. product or service names are
registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. That shows itself in our
results .S.

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After seeing our
technology-savvy readers weigh in, one thing is certainly clear -- the
leaders who emerged in our survey are among the very best in their
respective industries.com

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI)
software company.S. For
nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world
The Power to Know(R).
In 2004, SAS extended its commitment to the performance management
space, allowing decision makers to form an accurate and insightful
picture of which areas of an organization are performing well, which
are behind target and need attention, and the causes of
non-performance . SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites -
including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500(R) -
to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers;
to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive
organizations forward. in the USA
and other countries.

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The article is in the
most recent issue of Consumer Goods Technology, which is available on
newsstands now. The series begins June 21 in Dallas and concludes on
Sept.com /events/
"CIOs today are being asked to not only build the company
infrastructure but also to operate that infrastructure and adapt it to
possible changes. (R) indicates USA registration.53
billion , clearly establishing SAS as the leading provider of business
intelligence software. SAS core
strengths - advanced analytics and data management - also grew by more
than 20 percent in revenue. According to Gartner Group, two-thirds of CIOs
felt at risk in 2004 because they didn't deliver expected value on IT
investments.

Outlook

"The SAS(R)9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform and solutions take
customers beyond business intelligence as they know it and enable them
to shape future results instead of merely tracking historical data,"
said Goodnight., U.

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SAN JOSE, Calif."
"We're thrilled to receive this honor from the readers of Consumer
Goods Technology, many of whom are our customers," said Russ Hill,
worldwide director of marketing for consumer products, retail and
distribution for Business Objects.----Beginning this month,
SAS is taking its newly enhanced SAS(R) Enterprise BI Server on the
road, giving enterprise users across the U.sas. The company saw
particularly strong growth in the financial services industry (22%),
pharmaceuticals (20%), public sector (30%), telecommunications (18%),
energy/utilities (18%), and retail (9%).

A year of innovation

In addition to leadership, quality, customer focus and regulatory
compliance , globalization efforts and financial viability of
investments were among the top challenges facing competitive
organizations in 2004. SAS is the only vendor that completely
integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI
applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data.

Copyright (C) 2005 SAS Institute Inc.

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(C) 2005 SAS Institute Inc. CIO Insight magazine again placed SAS in the top 20 of
its annual ROI rankings. Coast Guard's Integrated Deepwater
System Program, U.

(1) Gartner Survey of 1,300 CIOs Shows IT Budgets to Increase by 2.

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Readers of Consumer Goods Technology Choose Business Objects
Over Cognos, Oracle , SAP, and SAS for Business Intelligence

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ)(Euronext Paris ISIN code:
FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business
intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that it is the number one
choice for business intelligence by companies in the consumer goods
industry, according to an annual survey of readers conducted by
Consumer Goods Technology . "Each of
our 14 categories was very competitive."
Business Objects counts some of the world's largest and most
successful consumer goods firms among its customers, including Bigelow
Teas, Land O'Lakes, PepsiCo, Perry Ellis, and Unilever. In a recent
survey conducted by Consumer Goods Technology, Business Objects was
the key BI vendor in eight of the top 10 consumer products, beverage ,
food, and health and pharmacy companies, and in nine of the top 10
footwear/apparel companies .com

Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects,
Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis,
WebIntelligence, RapidMarts, and BusinessQuery are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated
companies in the United States and other countries . "We do this
by enabling customers to realize increased performance and reliability
in SAS applications running on the Intel Itanium(R) 2 processor."
SAS will continue to extend its lead in the BI market by providing
customers with The Power to Know(R)., Blyth Inc.

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SAS, the leader in business intelligence , is launching a
multi-city tour with Intel and a related series of live events,
Webcasts and IT leadership activities. metropolitan areas, wrapping up in Boston
on Sept. The interactive demos will
include simple how-to instructions for creating customized reports for
all levels of users and will show how to tap into the power of SAS
reporting, data access and analytics directly with Excel and other
Microsoft Office applications. Each summit will focus on the growing
importance of business intelligence in today's enterprise and the role
that integrated business analytics (BA) capabilities should play; it
will also underscore the fact that IT should consider BI and BA
capabilities as a competitive advantage for the overall business. For more information
and a complete list of related events, please visit the SAS Events
page at: www. This summer, May, in conjunction with
SAS, will present a series of Webcasts entitled "IT Leadership: The
Next Generation: Leveraging Enterprise Data.
For more information about the SAS Enterprise BI Server, please
visit: http://www. The strong
performance is attributed to the company's recent industry focus, the
launch of the groundbreaking SAS(R)9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform
and the release of a new generation of business solutions . The trend in business to get a better handle
on costs drove up IT management applications revenue by nearly 30
percent and risk management applications by 20 percent.

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All other names
mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Finally, SAS is co-sponsoring a series of Webcasts and live events
that are geared toward senior IT leaders. SAS solutions are used at more than 40 ,000 sites -
including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500(R) -
to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers;
to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive
organizations forward. Applications related to monitoring and
managing organizational health - activity-based management,
activity-based costing and performance management - increased by more
than a third over 2003. SAS saw 46 percent of revenue coming
from Americas , 44 percent coming from Europe/Middle East/Africa
(EMEA), and 10 percent for the Asia/Pacific region . Other brand and
product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

CARY, N. SAS is the only vendor that completely
integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI
applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. All rights reserved.

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Revenue breakdown

"Our unique advantage is SAS' ability to deliver intelligence
across organizations faster than anything else on the market," said
SAS CEO Dr.

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C. a first-hand
demonstration of just how much business intelligence power they can
truly have at their fingertips. BI
vendors that offer truly advanced analytics capabilities, such as SAS,
can provide that extra edge needed for future growth."
SAS and Intel have been working together for more than 10 years to
develop and deploy SAS solutions on Intel-based platforms to help
solve real business problems in the most cost-effective manner.

SAS Achieves Record Revenue with 15% Growth in 2004; Global Revenues Top $1.5 Billion

Total revenue for the year reached $1. Rapid sales growth
in Asia-Pacific drove revenue up 20 percent in that region. With its capabilities in the ETL, data
quality, data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics space,
this platform is the basis of reducing total cost of ownership (TCO)
of IT investments., Burger
King Corporation, Duke University Hospital, Eskom Information
Technology, European Anti-Fraud Office, Fingerhut Direct Marketing,
GlaxoSmithKline Services plc , Hartford Life, HBOS plc, HSBC Bank plc,
Kohl's Corporation, Ministero Dell'Economia E Delle Finanze , Nextel
Communications Inc.

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