Delivering Insight and Intelligence for Everyone

An inside look at SAS® Enterprise BI Server

As organizations strive for increased growth and profitability, the pressure is on to provide faster, better information to ever-increasing numbers of business users, analysts and decision makers. Everyone wants easy access to information they can trust – for effective decision making.

SAS delivers the power of business intelligence to ever information consumer who needs it. Individuals at all levels of an organization can make decisions more efficiently and effectively. SAS Enterprise BI Server empowers your organization with access to true analytics and predictive intelligence – allowing analyst and business managers to turn analyses of the past into accurate models and forecasts of the future.

As the only solution that can fully integrate into an end-to-end intelligence platform, SAS Enterprise BI Server provides:

Access, analysis and reporting in a single system
SAS Enterprise BI Server makes it easy to share results and best practices so that the entire organization can access company-standard data definitions and report templates. SAS interfaces can transparently reuse valuable SAS analytics so that organizations can mitigate risks and predict future outcomes – all without users needing advanced statistical skills or IT support. SAS delivers a consistent foundation and targeted interfaces, enabling organizations to use existing skill sets to continually improve operations and performance.

Better, faster decisions for everyone
SAS Enterprise BI Server offers easy-to-use Web and desktop reporting interfaces, out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft Office and flexible content delivery via Web-based portals – making it easy for non-technical users to access SAS business and analytic intelligence. SAS Enterprise BI Server facilitates self-service information gathering and analysis, speeding better decision making while relieving the burden on IT. Targeted fit-to-task interfaces open the world of SAS intelligence to all types of users with varying needs and skills.

Lower cost of ownership; more efficient use of resources
Since they are built on a common foundation, SAS business intelligence interfaces share common metadata definitions and business rules ensuring data, information and results are consistent and accurate. With SAS, you can reduce the administration, management and deployment costs associated with providing multiple technologies to meet the needs of multiple users. SAS Enterprise BI Server's unprecedented scalability lets you support the access demands of many different types of users, enabling quick and easy access to critical information.

A foundation for consistent information throughout the enterprise
From simple reporting to sophisticated analytics, SAS supports all intelligence activities in an integrated environment. SAS produces consistent, accurate and reliable intelligence that represents a single version of the truth – so decision makers can act with confidence. SAS integrates information from a multitude of sources – internal processes, third-party sources, databases, operational systems, the Web and beyond – to gain a holistic view of your organization.

With its flexible, scalable and open architecture, SAS Business Intelligence ensures that the applications you develop today will continue to serve you in years to come, adapting to changing hardware and operating systems, challenging new business requirements, or exponential growth in data and user volumes. Our capabilities support a full range of users, from the casual to the most technical, and can deliver content to a broad selection of clients, ensuring that intelligence is delivered in the most appropriate, effective manner.

Bio: Shelley Sessoms is a regular contributor to sascom magazine.