SAS Products
SAS® Visual Analytics
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:
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The most recent releases for SAS 9.4 are:
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Related Documentation
- Administration
- Deployment
- SAS Data Explorer
- SAS Drive
- SAS Graph Builder
- SAS Report Viewer
- SAS Visual Analytics App
SAS 9.4
Usage
- What's New in SAS Visual Analytics
- User's Guide HTML
- User's Guide (PDF) - Select language below
- 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
- 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
- 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
All online documentation for supported releases of SAS Visual Analytics
Papers
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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
Certification
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
Other Resources
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.
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.