What's New

New Products in SAS 9.2: SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza

SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza translates SAS Enterprise Miner models into functions that are specific to Netezza. These functions are registered and can be executed for scoring purposes directly within the Netezza environment. SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza is a separate product that works in conjunction with SAS Enterprise Miner.

SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza enhances the performance of model scoring, resulting in faster processing of more analytic models. Better-performing models help to ensure the accuracy of the analytic results you are using to make critical business decisions.

SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza is specifically for organizations that use SAS Enterprise Miner and have a Netezza database. It is designed for data miners, marketing analysts, risk analysts, fraud investigators, engineers, and scientists who play a major role in solving critical business or research issues.

SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza provides the following key benefits:

higher performance run-times and faster analytical development and processing
improved discovery and use of critical business information throughout the enterprise
reduced data movement and network overhead
more efficient use of decision support infrastructure resources
increased productivity of business analysts with a solution that enables them to focus more on business issues rather than the mechanics of transforming and scoring data

SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza includes these key features:

Export Utility
- functions as a plug-in to SAS Enterprise Miner that exports the model scoring logic, including metadata about the required input and output variables.
Publishing Client
- automatically translates and publishes the model into C source code for creating the scoring function in Netezza.
- generates a script of Netezza commands for registering the scoring functions in Netezza. Scoring functions are available to use in any SQL expression wherever Netezza built-in functions are typically used.
- supports a robust class of SAS Enterprise Miner predictive and descriptive models, including the preliminary transformation layer.

The SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza: User's Guide provides information on the use of the SAS Scoring Accelerator. The user's guide in PDF format is located at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/scornet/index.html.

For more information about the current release, see What's New in SAS Scoring Accelerator 1.6 for Netezza.