Executive Information Systems solutions developed using SAS software ensure that decision makers have instant access to relevant and up-to-date information. Interactive, user-friendly interfaces combine with comprehensive functionality to place decision makers in the driver's seat. Multidimensional viewing shows your data from an unlimited number of perspectives. Drill-down, hot-spotting, and traffic lighting all support the identification of business trends and long-term developments.

SAS software also provides a menu-driven interface using objects and folders to manage, analyse, and report on data. You can store data, views to data, applications, and report templates in folders and then drag and drop them into other applications as needed. A point-and-click interface guides you through every task involving accessing, managing, analysing, and presenting data.

The software offers a wide range of business reporting objects, providing a choice of styles for dynamic display and interactive analysis. The business reporting objects include a multidimensional data viewer, organisational chart, and a variety of reporting formats.

Technical efficiency

The SAS solution software takes advantage of object-oriented applications development (OOAD) technology by allowing you to use blocks of already existing code to build new, customised applications. The ability to reuse code means that applications are implemented in a consistent, efficient manner - which, in turn, simplifies applications maintenance and updating. Ready-made objects that represent complete parts of applications can easily be assembled into complete systems without the need for programming.

Additional interfaces generate ad hoc SQL queries and reports with minimal effort.