IT Performance

Integrate your institution’s analytical silos

Siloed systems are nothing new to banks, whose business units may operate as separate entities. The resulting data deluge can overwhelm servers, causing backlogs and bottlenecks that can strain resources and increase costs. In addition, the proliferation of nonintegrated data sources causes breaks in data lineages that cannot be traced, compromising an institution's ability to meet growing regulatory demands.

Today's IT organizations face increasing pressure to accommodate the growing needs of the business units, which greatly adds to their own priorities for data management, control, auditability and traceability issues. At the same time IT organizations must continually improve their efficiency and manage operational costs in the wake of industry margin pressures.

" With the SAS technology we can distill all the necessary data for our current and future planning, reporting and charge-back needs. All without having to adapt any of our existing systems."

—Colette Lacrosse

Project Manager

Banque Generale du Luxembourg

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How SAS^® Can Help

SAS helps you consolidate your applications infrastructure and integrate previously siloed channels, enabling greater efficiency, improved information sharing and streamlined operational performance. With SAS you can:

Establish a single version of the truth by integrating all data – regardless of source or format – into a consolidated, secure environment; then automatically apply embedded data quality processes for an accurate, consistent view of the information.
Create a production environment for analytics by automating processes and enabling model sharing so that users across departments can easily access advanced, predictive analytics and discover and share new insights.
Streamline model lifecycle management to get models from creation to production quickly, with a secure, centralized repository that stores, organizes and tracks model development tasks and continuously monitors model performance.
Enable decision makers to make confident, fact-based decisions – while freeing IT to focus on other strategic projects – with access to timely, interactive self-service reports.
Trace data lineages all the way back to the source with transparent, self-documenting processes that enable compliance and ease the pain of audits.

How SAS^® Is Different

Only SAS provides a unified platform that lets you integrate, share, centrally manage and leverage data across the entire organization. Each step in the process is integrated with the next, avoiding the technology gaps that can negatively affect processing time, data accuracy and IT resource demands. SAS delivers:

A common metadata layer that supports multiple data sources. You can easily leverage existing database infrastructures and control and track concurrent metadata access.
World-class, advanced analytics software that's delivered to you in a single environment. You can formulate and evolve your analysis to obtain the best results and discover new insights more quickly and easily.
Streamlined creation, deployment, management and retirement of analytical models in an integrated environment. SAS' model lifecycle process management lets you maintain version control and sign-off approval accountability by tracking and monitoring models as they move through their life cycles.
End-to-end transparency – from data access to final reports. Self-documenting processes ensure compliance and facilitate auditability.
A modular, phased approach. Start where your needs are greatest and add on over time as your business grows and needs change.

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