SAS Visual Analytics offers a leading business intelligence and analytics solution to visually discover relevant relationships in your data, create and share interactive reports and dashboards, and use self-service analytics to quickly assess probable outcomes and make smarter, data driven-decisions.

SAS^® Visual Statistics enables you to derive predicted values from the predictive models. SAS Visual Statistics requires SAS Visual Analytics.

The reports created using SAS Visual Analytics can be shared on tablets and phones using SAS^® Visual Analytics App or they can be shared in Microsoft Office applications using SAS^® Office Analytics components. You can also create your own customized mobile app to display SAS Visual Analytics content using the SAS^® SDK.

The most recent releases for SAS® Viya® are: SAS Visual Analytics 8.3 SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) 3.4

The most recent releases for SAS 9.4 are: SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 SAS® LASR Analytic Server 2.82

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New to SAS Visual Analytics? Check out the SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya Learning Center or the SAS Visual Analytics for SAS 9.4 Learning Center

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News

SAS Visual Analytics 8.3 for SAS Viya Update Released in September 2018

• The report distribution feature now lets you specify whether you want to include a PDF, a summary, or both with the email.
• A new option is available for reports. Using the Summary field in the Options pane, you can enter text that describes the report. The summary text can contain dynamic data element values that are based on the objects in your report.
• Object templates are now available.
• A new automated analysis object determines the most important underlying factors for a specific response variable.
• Bar charts, bubble plots, line charts, pie charts, scatter plots, and time series plots provide access to SAS Graphics Accelerator, which enables users with visual impairments or blindness to explore data visualizations.
• Keyboard navigation is supported.

For more details, please see SAS Visual Analytics 8.3: What's New.

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SAS Visual Analytics 8.3 for SAS Viya Released in July 2018

Here are some highlights of SAS Visual Analytics 8.3:

• The user interface has many new enhancements, including many updated panes. For example, the Actions pane has been redesigned to make it easier to add or modify actions.
• Existing objects have been improved. For example, the pop-up menus now enable you to move objects; sort, replace, or remove data items; and print or share an object.
• New features are available for geographic maps and for network analysis objects that display a map background. For example, you can identify points on the map and draw routes between two points.
• The Data pane has new features. For example, you can join data sources, create aggregated data sources, and create data views.
• There are new and enhanced calculations with new periodic intervals and a new AggregateTable operator.

For more details, please see SAS Visual Analytics 8.3: What's New.

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SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 for SAS 9.4 Released in April 2017

SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 contains these updates:

• SAS Visual Analytics Designer (the designer) has dynamic text, improved calculations, and enhanced prompted filter controls, parameters, report links, and section links.
• The modern SAS Visual Analytics Viewer (the viewer) now contains most of the features that the classic viewer had, so many users can switch to using the modern viewer.
• Enhanced printing features enable you to have page breaks in the PDF for list tables and to show the filter context for filter controls. Another new feature enables the same footer to be printed on every page of a report.
• Importing data from Teradata no longer requires a user name and password.

Here are our top suggestions for new users of SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Viya:

• Access a collection of "How Do I?" videos.
• Sign up for the web class.

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Here are our top suggestions for new users of SAS Visual Analytics for SAS 9.4:

• Follow a sequence of basic tasks from documentation.
• Access a collection of "How Do I?" videos.
• Get the cheat sheets.
• Sign up for the web class.

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Don't hesitate to contact us if you have technical questions.

Online Documentation

SAS Viya 8.3

Usage

• What's New
• Overview
• Getting Started with Reports
• Designing Reports
• Working with Report Data
• Working with Report Content
• Getting Started with Analytical Models
• Working with SAS Visual Statistics
• Working with SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Reference
• Accessibility Features

Programming

• SAS Visual Analytics
• SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning
• SAS Viya Quick Start

Related Documentation

• Administration
• Deployment
• SAS Data Explorer
• SAS Drive
• SAS Graph Builder
• SAS Report Viewer
• SAS Visual Analytics App

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SAS 9.4

Usage

• What's New in SAS Visual Analytics
• User's Guide   HTML
• User's Guide (PDF) - Select language below
  English Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) French German Italian Japanese Korean

• Getting Started with Data on Windows   PDF   |   HTML
• Getting Started with Data Preparation   PDF   |   HTML
• Getting Started with Exploration and Reporting
• Getting Started with Exploration and Reporting (PDF) - Select language below
  English Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) Japanese Korean

• Getting Started with Analytical Models   PDF   |   HTML
• Example Data for Getting Started with Analytical Models (ZIP)
• One Report, Many Languages: Using SAS Visual Analytics to Localize Your Reports
• Accessibility
• Creating Accessible Reports
• SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Cloud
• SAS Mobile BI

Administration and Deployment

• Administration Guide   HTML
• Administration Guide (PDF) - Select language below
  English  Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) Japanese Korean

• Installation and Configuration Guide (Non-distributed SAS LASR)   PDF   |   HTML
• Installation and Configuration Guide (Distributed SAS LASR)   PDF   |   HTML
• System Requirements for SAS Visual Analytics
• System Requirements for SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics
• SAS High-Performance Analytics Infrastructure
• SAS LASR Analytic Server

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All online documentation for supported releases of SAS Visual Analytics

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Papers

• SAS Visual Analytics: Steps to Successful Adoption
• SAS Technical Papers

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Need help?

SAS Publishing Representatives are available in the U.S. from 8-5 ET to answer your documentation questions. Contact us at 1-800-727-0025, option 4 or e-mail.

Training

• Learning path for SAS Visual Analytics for SAS 9
• Learning path for SAS Visual Analytics for Viya

Certification

• SAS Certified Visual Business Analyst: Exploration and Design Using SAS Visual Analytics

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Need help?

Curriculum consultants are available in the U.S. from 9-5 EST. Contact us at 1-800-727-0025, option 4 or e-mail.
International customers, please contact your country office.

Samples and Notes

• Samples
• Usage Notes
• Problem Notes
• Installation Notes

Other Resources

• System Requirements

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Videos

SAS Visual Analytics for SAS 9 Video Library

View free SAS "How To" videos for SAS 9.

• Getting Started
• Working with Reports
• Creating Visualizations: Using Decision Trees, Word Clouds, and Text Analytics
• Visual Analytics Administrator
• And more

SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Viya Video Library

A collection of free "How To" videos provides training on various tasks using SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Viya.

• Viewing a Report
• Creating a Multi-Page Report with Interactions
• Organizing and Sharing Content in SAS Drive
• Transitioning from SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 to SAS Visual Analytics 8.2: The Home Page and the Viewer
• And more

Ask the Expert: SAS Visual Analytics

SAS experts will hold live events presenting a variety of SAS Visual Analytics topics.

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Online Support Resources

Visit the Technical Support page to access various self-help and assisted-help resources or submit a problem through the SAS Technical Support form.

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