Strategic Benefits of the SAS Intelligence Platform

The SAS Intelligence Platform combines advanced SAS analytics, high-speed processing of large amounts of data, and easy-to-use query and reporting tools. The result is accurate, reliable, and fast information with which to make decisions.

You can build data warehouses, perform data mining, enable users to query data and produce reports from a Web browser, and give users easy access to SAS processes that perform robust analytics.

The SAS Intelligence Platform provides all of this functionality in one centrally managed suite of products that are designed to work together seamlessly. This integration reduces the administration, management, and deployment costs that would be associated with providing multiple technologies to meet the needs of different users.

The SAS Intelligence Platform makes use of your organization's existing data assets, enabling you to integrate data from multiple database platforms and ERPs. Tools are provided to help ensure the reliability, consistency, and standardization of this data.

Users can choose from multiple tools with which to perform queries and produce reports. Since all of the tools access data through the same metadata representations, users throughout your enterprise receive consistent data. As a result, they can make decisions based on a common version of the truth.

Similarly, business logic, complex computations, and analytic algorithms can be developed once and stored centrally in SAS processes for all users to access. These processes, as well as the information in the SAS Metadata Repository, are controlled through multi-level security.

The SAS Intelligence Platform's self-service reporting and analysis tools enable users across the enterprise to access and query data from virtually any data source. Any number of users can use wizards to create reports in the needed time frames, without waiting for support from information technology professionals. Through Web-based interfaces, users can explore large volumes of multidimensional data quickly and interactively, from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of detail.

The reporting and analysis tools hide complex data structures, so that average business users can perform queries without having to learn new skills. The intelligence storage options are optimized for analytical processing, enabling the reporting tools to quickly retrieve large volumes of data.

As a result of these reporting and analysis capabilities, everyone spends less time looking for answers and more time driving strategic decisions.

SAS is the market leader in analytics. With the SAS Intelligence Platform, you can make the full breadth of SAS analytics available to users throughout the enterprise.

SAS analytics include algorithms for functions such as predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting, optimization, simulation, and experimental design. You can now incorporate these capabilities into self-service reports and analyses, so that decision makers throughout your enterprise can benefit from the accuracy and precision of high-end analytics.