What Is SAS Visual Analytics?

SAS Visual Analytics is an easy-to-use, web-based product that leverages SAS High-Performance Analytics technologies. SAS Visual Analytics empowers organizations to explore huge volumes of data very quickly to identify patterns and trends and to identify opportunities for further analysis.
SAS Visual Analytics includes the following:
  • A non-distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server or a distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server with SAS High-Performance Analytics environment root node and worker nodes.
  • A co-located supported Hadoop data provider.
  • A SAS Visual Analytics server tier consisting of the following:
    • SAS LASR Analytic Server monitor (distributed)
    • SAS Visual Analytics High-Performance Configuration
    • SAS Information Retrieval Studio
    • SAS Workspace Servers
    • SAS Pooled Workspace Servers
    • SAS Stored Process Servers
    • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Hadoop
    • SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console (distributed)
  • A SAS Visual Analytics middle tier consisting of the following:
    • SAS Visual Analytics Hub
    • SAS Visual Analytics Explorer
    • SAS Visual Statistics
    • SAS Visual Analytics Designer
    • SAS Visual Data Builder
    • SAS Visual Analytics Graph Builder
    • SAS Visual Analytics Report Viewer
    • SAS Visual Analytics Administrator
    • SAS LASR Authorization Service
    • SAS Visual Analytics Transport Service
    • Search Interface to SAS Content
    • SAS Remote Services
When you license SAS Visual Analytics with the non-distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server, the SAS High-Performance Analytics environment and the co-located data provider are not provided.
For more information about SAS Visual Analytics, see the following documents:
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Last updated: August 1, 2017