Overview

These access technologies help organizations that struggle with accessing and integrating diverse, large, or unstructured data. Data access includes the ability to read, write, and update tables or individual records in relational databases. Native text file importers are also provided for delimited, fixed width, and multi-length text files. Finally, the capacity to work with non-structured and semi-structured data such as XML, message queues, web services, and extracted data is included in the appropriate SAS data management applications. These data access capabilities work to speed the creation of reports and the preparation of data to run analytics for making better decisions.
Other applications such as SAS Data Loader for Hadoop, SAS Data Integration Studio, and DataFlux Data Management Studio (part of the SAS Data Quality bundle) use these technologies to support their data connections. See Other Applications That Connect to Data for more information.