VSTI, A SAS Company

Through Vision Systems and Technology Inc. (VSTI), a SAS company, SAS provides deep domain knowledge, analytics expertise and professional services with a workforce of cleared personnel and subject-matter experts. As data volume and analytical complexity continue to grow, VSTI provides organizations with the capabilities necessary to meet current, planned and unforeseen high-performance analytics requirements, pre-empt cyberthreats, reveal suspicious financial activity, evaluate social media and assess risk.

SAS provides the robust engine that can integrate, process, analyze and visualize the enormous amounts of multi-INT structured and unstructured data that analysts have to sift through to produce the high-quality, comprehensive analysis upon which decision makers rely. By offering significant efficiencies in the intelligence environment and allowing you to automate manual, labor-intensive processes, SAS and VSTI free up resources so that analysts can focus on countering new threats.

SAS solutions for national security can help you:

• Proactively manage the growth of data volume, velocity and variety. Access, integrate, cleanse and standardize data with SAS data integration and data quality solutions. Then, prioritize your data according to your current mission needs and understand the data and anomalies in your data in new ways.
• Derive essential meaning from big data. Analyze unstructured data and perform entity extraction and ontology management using SAS Text Analytics. Reveal unknown and abnormal patterns of behavior with SAS data mining. Apply link analysis to reveal relationships between entities with SAS Social Network Analysis.
• Accelerate time to access and analysis of data. Reduce the time you spend performing analysis on your data from hours to seconds, and easily scale to ever-increasing volumes of data so you can explore big data faster and answer big analytics problems quickly and with confidence.
• Build foundations for analytic expertise and cultures. Drastically reduce the development time of advanced analytics solutions that identify relevant information and produce predictive insights.
• Agilely respond to changing technologies such as Hadoop and cloud computing. Manage increasing amounts of data in the manner that makes the most sense to your agency.

No other vendor delivers such a powerful arsenal of data management, analytical and visualization tools, delivered in a truly integrated framework. With SAS and VSTI you get:

• Excellence in high-performance analytics. SAS Analytics software is recognized by our customers and industry experts as best in class. We continue to push the boundaries on different ways to approach problems with new algorithms and functionality that take our users and their organizations to the next level of analytic insight.
• Unparalleled scalability. SAS software's ability to handle huge volumes is unsurpassed by our competitors. Customers in intelligence operations with massive amounts of data rely on the ability of SAS to scale with their missions.
• Innovation. Since its inception, SAS has continuously invested 20-25 percent of top-line revenue into research and development. With VSTI as part of the SAS family, development efforts in innovative technologies that can provide real customer value in high-speed in-memory solutions, cybersecurity solutions, data cleansing and data reduction strategies.
• A proven partner. With their deep resource pool of talented individuals, SAS and VSTI have proven repeatedly that they can solve the most complex problems by applying leading statistical and mathematical techniques.
• Stability. SAS is the largest privately held software company in the world, with 2011 revenues of more than $2.74 billion. Since 1976, SAS has demonstrated sustained growth -making it one of the most solid and stable companies in the industry.