Applications development

IT staff can quickly and cost-effectively develop and customize intelligence applications that leverage the full power of SAS, using a variety of programming languages and platform choices. SAS Enterprise BI Server includes a fourth-generation programming language, as well as ready-to-use programs for data manipulation, information storage and retrieval, statistics and reporting.

Also available as an add-on module is SAS^® AppDev Studio™, an application development product that supports the creation of Java applications that leverage the back-end business intelligence and analytics power of the SAS server.

• Quickly and cost-effectively develop application in a variety of languages and platform choices.
• Integrate data across environments.
• Read, format and analyze any data.
• Maximize use of all computing resources.

Features

• Intuitive fourth-generation programming language. A rich library of prewritten, ready-to-use integrated procedures.
• Powerful data analysis tools. Macro facility to reduce programming time.
• Cross-platform and multiple platform support. Support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) hardware.
• Easy importing and exporting of XML documents.  
• SAS AppDev Studio with standalone application development environment:
  • Flexibility to develop multiple types of applications.
  • Java components to leverage SAS and facilitate development.
  • Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
  • Powerful set of quick-start templates.

Powerful programming capabilities are provided in SAS Enterprise BI. In addition, SAS AppDev Studio provides a standalone environment for developing Java applications.