Mumbai: SAS has announced the launch of the newly enhanced version of the SAS enterprise BI server, a major component of the SAS9 enterprise intelligence platform. The enterprise BI server offers OLAP storage and mapping capabilities integrated with a BI tool offering.

Additionally, it offers a more sophisticated level of analytics-driven business intelligence with easy and fast access to data for business users across the enterprise, a company press release said.

SAS enterprise BI server is expected to deliver reports on time, on demand and on target, reducing the time spent looking for answers and making more time available for driving decisions and results. With the ability to draw information from a wide variety of data sources including transactional systems, the SAS enterprise BI server also allows organizations to leverage existing IT investments for optimal benefits.

Additionally the solution also facilitates streamlining of the IT function within the enterprise through easy implementation, administration and deployment, reducing time and expense of IT resources, the release said.

Commenting on the launch Sudipta K Sen, managing director & CEO, SAS Institute (India) Pvt. Ltd. said, "SAS offers an integrated business intelligence environment that delivers consistent and accurate information based on a single version of the truth."