According to Forrester Research, global e-commerce will be worth nearly $7 trillion by the year 2004. That constitutes more than a 14,000% increase from the 1999 total of approximately $1 billion. With this explosion, the need for business intelligence solutions will increase proportionally.

In his remarks, Goodnight will outline the strategy for helping customers succeed at e-business. He will focus on making effective use of the data generated by Internet activities, while moving more of the customers' business-to-business services to the Web.

Dr. James H. Goodnight is president, CEO and co-founder of SAS Institute, the largest privately held software company in the world and the leader in data warehousing and decision support. Goodnight has authored many of the procedures that comprise SAS� software, and he remains closely involved in the company's day-to-day development activities.