London, 8th April 2010:  IS Solutions has been honoured as Hosting Partner of the Year by business intelligence vendor SAS at its recent Partner Awards ceremony.  IS Solutions has been working with SAS since 2007 on solutions around its Customer Intelligence suite of marketing analytics products but this award recognises the more recent success that IS Solutions has achieved in providing managed services for clients in this area.

Through its flexible approach to client requirements, IS Solutions has ensured that users of its managed services are able to fully realise the benefits of outsourcing – lower cost of entry, reduced risk, effortless day-to-day management, increased efficiency and the ability to concentrate on their core business.  This accolade acknowledges the investment that IS Solutions has made to facilitate these benefits for users of SAS software; its managed service infrastructure has been designed to meet the performance needs of large customers and offers the security, resilience and availability that enterprises expect of an application service.

IS Solutions’ counts long-term clients like Toshiba Europe, Toyota and Marks and Spencer among its managed service users and has recently initiated hosted solutions for a number of SAS customers too; these include two leading international banking organisations and a major UK government department, all of whom are placing their trust in IS Solutions for the management of SAS applications like Customer Experience Analytics, Marketing Automation and Marketing Optimisation.

Peter Kear, IS Solutions’ Sales Director commented: “IS Solutions has been providing outsourced and managed services for over twenty years and it is gratifying not just to see this line of business thriving, but also to see it recognised in this way by such an illustrious industry partner.  We are committed to offering flexibility and choice to our clients and this is typified by our configurable range of managed services.”