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[Johannesburg, 27 October 2004] - SAS, the leader in business intelligence, has announced continued financial and customer success through the third quarter of 2004, with year-to-date revenue growth up 12% over 2003. Driving new business for SAS was the software company's string of key solution launches that leverage the breakthrough capabilities of the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform, unveiled in the first quarter of 2004.

SAS customers continue their rapid adoption of the SAS 9 platform. From retail and financial services to telecommunications, manufacturing and the public sector, a sampling of organisations that have licensed or migrated to SAS 9 include Amazon.com Holdings Inc, American Express International, the US Department of Homeland Security, Celebrity Cruises, Kraft Foods Global and Marriott International, all based in the US; Orange and Pacifica, both of France; BBVA (Spain), Bell Canada, Statistics Norway and Telenor Direkte (Norway). These organisations join more than 9 600 other licensed sites that have already implemented SAS 9.

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