Value of the SAS Intelligence Platform

About the SAS Business Analytics Framework and the SAS Intelligence Platform

The SAS Business Analytics Framework encompasses the full range of business solutions, technologies, and services from SAS. Through this framework, organizations can address their most critical business issues and then add new functionality over time to enable continuous performance improvement. All of the functionality is available from one vendor and through one framework, thus reducing the total cost of ownership.

The technologies that provide the foundation for the SAS Business Analytics Framework, as well as for industry and line-of-business solutions offered by SAS, are delivered through the SAS Intelligence Platform. The SAS Intelligence Platform is a comprehensive, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, managing, and distributing enterprise intelligence. It includes tools and interfaces that enable you to do the following:

extract data from a variety of operational data sources on multiple platforms, and build a data warehouse and data marts that integrate the extracted data
store large volumes of data efficiently and in a variety of formats
give business users at all levels the ability to explore data from the warehouse in a Web browser, perform simple query and reporting functions, and view up-to-date results of complex analyses
use high-end analytic techniques to provide capabilities such as predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting, optimization, simulation, and experimental design
centrally control the accuracy and consistency of enterprise data

With the SAS Intelligence Platform, you can implement an end-to-end intelligence infrastructure using software that is delivered, tested, and integrated by SAS. Using the tools provided in the SAS Intelligence Platform, you can create applications that reflect your unique business requirements and domain knowledge.

Building on the technologies in the SAS Intelligence Platform, SAS offers solutions for industries such as financial services, life sciences, health care, retail, and manufacturing, as well as line-of-business solutions in areas such as customer management, enterprise risk management, and financial management. The solutions incorporate predictive analytics, industry and domain expertise, and specialized data structures.

A complete set of documentation for deploying and administering the SAS Intelligence Platform is available at http://support.sas.com/92administration. The site provides the primary administrative documentation for the following software offerings:

SAS BI Server
SAS Enterprise BI Server
SAS Data Integration Server
SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server

Administrators who manage SAS products that use the metadata server should use the documentation at this site. Supplemental guides provide additional details for other products and domains.

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