According to SAS Malaysia managing director Jimmy Cheah, the company's continued good performance reflects SAS's lead in the global market place.

SAS holds the No.1 worldwide market share position among all advanced analytics software vendors with 31.9 per cent in 2007 and has the highest BI tools market share growth rate of the top five BI vendors, according to a June 2008 IDC report: Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2007 Vendor Shares: Query, Reporting, and Analysis, and Advanced Analytics Markets Stable in the Face of Economic Turmoil, Cheah said.

"With a 22-year track record of delivering proven results in Malaysia and the ability to innovate, SAS is more and more often the first company people call when needing to solve business problems," said Cheah.

He added SAS Malaysia has been seeing a 30 per cent growth year-on-year for the past four years. Despite the financial crisis, Cheah is confident that SAS Malaysia will continue to record double-digit growth for the coming year.