SAS^® Business Analytics

To lead your organization in today's challenging economic climate, you need fact-based answers that you and others can believe in. Traditional approaches to decision support have not yielded optimal results.

SAS provides the world’s best analytics embedded in a framework that supports the entire decision-making process. This helps our customers find answers to immediate business issues and implement their visions for the future. By delivering insights gleaned from data about customers, suppliers, operations, performance and more, SAS Business Analytics empowers you to: 

• Provide the right answers to lead your business forward, stay ahead of competitors and continuously improve the way you work.
• Solve complex business problems and seize new opportunities.
• Enhance business performance and optimize value creation.

Visit the SAS Business Analytics Knowledge Exchange to learn more about the power and potential of business analytics from the vantage point of the world's foremost executive thought leaders. 

Components of SAS^® Business Analytics

The SAS Business Analytics Framework combines the strengths of SAS solutions and technologies with SAS' commitment to innovation, continuous technical support, professional services, training and partnerships.

Business solutions – SAS provides an expanding range of horizontal solutions that address the issues affecting all organizations, such as achieving greater return on customer relationships, measuring and managing risk, and optimizing IT networks. Our vertical solutions use extensive domain expertise to surface information in the context of each industry's unique business processes, such as anti-money laundering in financial services, expediting drugs to market in life sciences, identifying cross-sell opportunities in retail and producing demand-driven forecasts in manufacturing.

Every SAS business solution includes a set of standard technologies for:

Data management – Capitalize on the deluge of data flowing into your organization, identify patterns within data, and structure the data flexibly for decision making.

Analytics – Move from reactive to proactive decisions using the predictive analytics capabilities that only SAS provides.

Reporting – Get answers to more sophisticated questions, format presentation-quality results and easily share findings across your enterprise.

 

How SAS^® Is Different

• Proven champion of innovation. No other software vendor can match SAS' history of innovation, driven by our continuous advocacy of data analysis. SAS has steadily reinvested our revenue into R&D to advance the application of analytics to help organizations capitalize on their data.
• Analytics. SAS Analytics fuel evidence-based answers and empower organizations with unmatched agility and depth to measure what matters today, reveal best actions, expose threats and incorporate learning into business processes. SAS Analytics unveil predictive insights that can be easily shared to drive optimal actions.
• Flexible framework. SAS delivers business analytics capabilities through a flexible framework that can be adapted over time to support performance objectives and changing market dynamics. Address your most critical business issues right now and add new functionality over time, enabling continuous performance improvement across your organization – all from one vendor, all through one framework, to reduce total cost of ownership.