• SAS Data Integration provides pre-built, high-performance capabilities for data connectivity, data quality, ETL (extract, transform and load), data migration, data synchronization and data federation.
• SAS Intelligence Storage is a dedicated solution that efficiently stores and disseminates information for business intelligence and analytic requirements, offering relational and OLAP storage options from the same foundational inputs.
• SAS Analytic Intelligence is an integrated environment for predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting, optimization, simulation, experimental design and more. SAS Analytic Intelligence leverages existing data and infrastructure to support effective decision making and integration into business intelligence environments.
• Business Intelligence delivers a set of BI capabilities that enable different types of users to surface meaningful intelligence from consistent, companywide data.

SAS Data Integration provides organizations with a flexible, reliable and complete solution for meeting all of their data integration needs. It delivers fast results while reducing the overall cost of data integration projects. By providing a complete portfolio of data integration capabilities, SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server:

• Eliminates delivery delays and high costs associated with having IT building custom code for each integration project or having to piece together a myriad of non-integrated technologies by providing a single, integrated and easy-to-use solution.
• Eliminates business and technical problems caused by inaccurate, contradictory and inconsistent data by embedding data quality within data integration processes and providing a single view of your customers, products and other entities.
• Eliminates the need to acquire new tools to meet the changing needs of each new data integration project your organization must complete. SAS brings to market a single enterprise solution that can handle all your data integration activities.

SAS Data Integration synthesizes corporate data from disparate silos of information in a timely, cost-effective manner. SAS Data Integration is capable of reading and extracting all data formats from heterogeneous platforms, without relying solely on SQL, and offers prebuilt SAS capabilities for data manipulations, quality and analysis. SAS Data Integration improves the return on investment of information assets in three key ways:

 Rapid development. Development tools, with drag-and-drop ‘wizards,’ enable rapid creation of powerful, customizable data integration strategies without requiring in-depth programming expertise or maintenance of thousands of lines of code.

 Efficient processing. Data integration efficiency is maximized through integrated data quality routines, one-step processing of multiple outputs, data integration processing on the platform where the data resides, automated workflow scheduling with load balancing and more.

 Greater management control. SAS Data Integration introduces a new level of accountability and control over all aspects of the data integration process — from autogenerated audit trails of process changes over the project lifecycle, to easy-to-use metadata management and a single administrative interface into information systems.

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SAS Intelligence Storage delivers an open, flexible storage platform for business intelligence and analytic intelligence applications that uses your existing hardware technology, is easy to integrate within existing ETL processes and delivers a lower total cost of ownership.

SAS Intelligence Storage is the only storage platform available that delivers a combination of options designed from the outset to support business intelligence and analytic intelligence applications and deliver fast extraction, transformation and loading times irrespective of the amount of data held within an organization, while reducing total cost of ownership.

In addition, as a key component of The SAS®9 Intelligence Platform, SAS Intelligence Storage ensures that business intelligence and analytic intelligence can be obtained quickly by serving the data through a platform designed for rapid retrieval and reporting. This contributes to the efficiency of SAS®9 helping customers drive revenues while reducing risk.

Intelligence Storage capabilities are relevant to any industry, especially those businesses that generate large volumes of operational data that can yield valuable insights when analyzed using statistical methodologies and procedures.

The emergence of analytic and business intelligence applications has resulted in new strains on traditional RDBMS systems, which were not designed to search large tables of information for small amounts of user-requested data. They also were not designed to produce the summarized reports demanded by modern business intelligence applications, nor to service the unique, intensive simulation and modeling requirements of advanced analytic intelligence applications.

SAS Scalable Intelligence Server efficiently disseminates information for business intelligence and analytic intelligence applications. SAS offers relational and OLAP storage options to suit all types of application profiles. This includes everything from simple reporting and OLAP dissemination to advanced forecasting and data mining. An open, integrated metadata framework enables these storage and dissemination options to be provided transparently to a wide range of applications and environments.

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SAS Analytic Intelligence is a versatile, integrated suite of software that provides answers to complex questions with efficiency and certainty. Capabilities include predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting, optimization, simulation, experimental design and more.

Point-and-click interfaces with data mining, text mining and visualization tools are part of the SAS Analytic Intelligence suite.

SAS Analytic Intelligence leverages your existing data and infrastructure to empower effective decision making. Best-in-class modeling capabilities support very complex analyses, yet the results can be shared with non-statistical users through open integration with SAS and third party business intelligence applications such as Microsoft Office.

SAS Analytic intelligence delivers the industry’s widest portfolio of algorithms, mathematical data manipulation and modeling capabilities. These capabilities can be applied to an almost infinite number of business problems. Your quantitative specialists and business users can take advantage of integrated, highly targeted capabilities tailored for your specific IT environment and industry, rather than compromising with a set of poorly coordinated tools.

SAS Analytic Intelligence is an element of the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform, an integrated platform that delivers enterprise intelligence while extending the value of existing hardware and software infrastructures. For many, the challenge to producing high-quality analytical results is getting to enterprise data and cleansing it to improve the quality. With the integration of the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform, the time required to complete these tasks is significantly reduced and your analyses will produce accurate results.

Capabilities of SAS Analytic Intelligence

• Predictive modeling
• Descriptive modeling
• Forecasting
• Resource optimization
• Experimental design

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Distributed teams, managers and executives need accurate, up-to-date information for decision making, and they need it faster than ever. Having IT process all their queries creates expensive and time-consuming bottlenecks. Using multiple point solutions creates confusing and unreliable results because intelligence is not based on a common model of corporate data or corporate standards for surfacing information to business users.

SAS Business Intelligence empowers users by giving them access to information in the format they need, when they need it.

SAS Business Intelligence empowers users by giving them access to information in the format they need, when they need it. SAS provides the full breadth of capabilities to meet user skill levels and needs, enabling users to generate their own answers while IT retains control over the quality and consistency of the data.

Fully integrated with SAS Data Integration, SAS Business Intelligence can incorporate all data required for analysis, regardless of data source or format. This integration also ensures that data used in analysis is complete, sequenced and properly cleansed — without excessive proliferation of metadata, a common problem in legacy business intelligence architectures.

SAS Business Intelligence clients can transparently re-use SAS analytic procedures without the users needing advanced skills in statistics or support from IT. Analysts and business managers can seamlessly integrate analyses of the past into accurate models and forecasts of the future.

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SAS Business Intelligence creates a collaborative domain that links previously isolated specialists in statistics, finance, marketing and logistics. The whole user community has access to company-standard analytical routines and reporting templates. This not only produces consistent, trustworthy results; it fosters greater cooperation and partnership among disparate teams.

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