Optimal partners with SAS to serve as a value-added reseller of SAS®9 business intelligence software. SAS goes beyond other vendors’ narrow definition of business intelligence. It offers data management and predictive analytic capabilities that tell an organization not just where it has been, but where it should go next. It delivers the foresight and understanding that is required to outperform the pack.

SAS®9 expands the definition of business intelligence, enabling enterprises to break through to a higher level of understanding, beyond the hindsight offered by traditional BI tools. SAS®9 is the only BI software that delivers these advantages:

• A single technology platform. The SAS Intelligence Platform builds on an organization’s existing technology investments to deliver high-quality information to every desktop or departmental server. This revolutionary platform provides a broad set of integrated software for unmatched data integration, easy-to-use business reporting, and unparalleled analytics.
• Expanded access. SAS®9 reaches across the enterprise to deliver industry-leading SAS analytics, for understanding an organization’s business past, monitoring and communicating the present, and reliably predicting the future.
• Targeted user interfaces. SAS®9 interfaces are "fit to task," designed and tailored to the varying skill levels and usage patterns of information consumers, domain experts, executives, and technologists.
• An ever-expanding range of SAS solutions. These industry- and business problem-specific solutions built on the SAS Intelligence Platform will help organizations better harness and exploit data about their customers, supply chain, and other operations. They integrate easily with systems already in place to help you make faster and more accurate decisions about where to go next.
• SAS®9 takes an organization’s intelligence operations to a new level. It delivers vital knowledge into the hands of the broadest possible user population throughout the enterprise efficiently and at a lower cost than ever before.