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Marketing Management Analytics calls SAS 'gold standard'

MMA standardises on SAS to help marketers evaluate and improve campaign success
By Anti-Clockwise
Johannesburg, 28 Jun 2007

Marketing Management Analytics (MMA), a leader in marketing mix modelling, has found SAS Analytics to be just the ticket for demonstrating the credibility of its services.

The leader in business intelligence, SAS has a reputation for quality and scalability that earns the respect of MMA's clients.

As a result, MMA, which originally served the packaged goods industry, has also become established in financial services, travel and retail. SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS Forecast Server, SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server and others, stock its SAS software arsenal.

MMA develops cutting-edge methods for measuring the sales impact of advertising and other marketing components. SAS Analytics power the company's Marketing Mix Analysis and Avista offerings, which blend data sources to offer fact-based analysis that quantifies the sales impact of media. The Co-President and Chief Operating Officer of MMA, Ed See, calls SAS the "gold standard in analytics".

Consolidating massive amounts of sales, financial and media data is just the first step in boosting clients' budget, planning and management successes. MMA's clients need predictive analytics to profitably create and manage demand.

Now they can forecast the effects of how and when they advertise, with reasonable accuracy. Armed with information about the impact that actions have on their marketplace, marketers and finance staff can better understand the value of expenditure - even predicting ROI. MMA's clients report good results in sales growth, improved profitability and increased efficiency in marketing investments.

Says Gerrit van Wyngaard, Product Manager Customer Intelligence at SAS South Africa: "SAS Analytics has the capability to allow for real-time simulation and correction of campaigns, forecasting of events and intelligent targeting of marketing campaigns, which, in turn, can help clients better their budgeting techniques and improve the effectiveness of their marketing spend."

He concludes: "Improved effectiveness and more efficient spending add returns straight back into the bottom line, helping marketing to not only work smarter, but reap rewards as well."

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Marketing Management Analytics (MMA)

MMA pioneered the use of marketing mix modelling to help companies plan, measure, validate, and optimise their marketing performance. Since that time, MMA has conducted more than 1 000 studies on hundreds of brands and businesses in more than 20 countries. MMA's clients include many of the most recognised marketers in the world. MMA has been a unit of Aegis Group, PLC, London (AGS.L) since 1997. For more information about other MMA services, visit http://www.mma.com.

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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'.

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Charlene Carroll
Anti-Clockwise
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charlene@anticlockwise.co.za
Michelle Chettoa
SAS Institute
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michelle.chettoa@zaf.sas.com