Guided analysis

SAS Enterprise BI Server provides a dynamic Windows environment for guided analysis and model development, enabling business analysts, statisticians and programmers to leverage SAS analytics and efficient processing across all enterprise platforms.

• Provides a self-service environment for analysts and statisticians.
• Provides easy access to data sources through a SAS graphical interface.
• Makes reporting and analytics available to everyone.

Features

• Provides a .NET-based native Windows application for programmers, analysts or more advanced users.
• Intuitive wizards provide access to SAS capabilities from basic reporting to complex analyses.
• Results can be delivered in HTML, RTF, text and/or PDF form. Most results also can be output as SAS data sets for further analysis with other tasks.
• Graphs can be created as ActiveX (dynamic or image), Java Applets (dynamic or image), GIFs or JPEGs. ActiveX and Java Applets permit direct interaction with the graph objects without resubmitting requests to the server.
• An intuitive process flow diagram facility allows users to organize, view and maintain their projects visually.
• Provides a wide variety of prebuilt reporting, graphical and analytical tasks.
• Visually access any data type supported by SAS and native Windows data types.
• A powerful, graphical query builder allows users to access and manipulate their data without SQL expertise.
• Transpose and rank data in multiple ways.
• Perform data subsets using a variety of basic and statistical methods.
• Perform OLAP access, visualization and manipulation.

Guided analysis and reporting capabilities are provided in SAS Enterprise BI Server. They are also available as a standalone product, SAS Enterprise Guide.