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What is SAS Information Delivery Portal? The SAS Information Delivery Portal provides a single access point for aggregated information via an easy-to-use Web-based interface. It includes point-and-click dashboard development, enabling users to create their own dashboards in just minutes from a variety of data sources.
Why is SAS Information Delivery Portal important? The SAS Information Delivery Portal provides a common front end for SAS intelligence, Web-based SAS solutions and other digital content in a role-based, secure, customizable and extensible environment. Users can easily personalize their portal environments and create customized visual dashboards, reducing both information overload and IT workload.
For whom is SAS Information Delivery Portal designed? The SAS Information Delivery Portal is designed for information consumers and decision makers who need easy access to intelligence that is filtered for their interests and security privileges via the Web.
Key Benefits
- Faster, more efficient decision making. The SAS Information Delivery Portal provides role-based and personalized interaction with information, complete with metadata search and a centralized metadata repository. It reduces the amount of information that must be reviewed while ensuring that all relevant information is taken into account. It lets you decide how you want to display information with the flexibility to view as much as you need for quick assessments.
- Enhanced security and reduced IT costs. Because the SAS Information Delivery Portal provides role-based security and a single point for administering all aspects of your information delivery system, IT maintenance work is reduced and consistent security is ensured.
- Self-sufficiency for users and more strategic use of IT resources. The SAS Information Delivery Portal integrates metadata all the way from your data sources through information dissemination. Because users can satisfy their information needs with easy-to-use search capabilities, you can eliminate duplicate maintenance efforts and reduce user demands for IT involvement in day-to-day intelligence creation and sharing.
Key Features
- Reliable information delivery. The SAS Information Delivery Portal can aggregate all sources of information to deliver a comprehensive view via a Web browser interface. The SAS Information Delivery Portal gives you the flexibility to deliver digital information that your users require, including content managed through a data warehouse, such as reports and analyses, Web applications, documents and content that is syndicated from a provider using technology such as Rich Site Summary (RSS).
- Customization and easy personalization. The SAS Information Delivery Portal delivers its functionality through a Web browser interface and can be customized on an enterprise level to incorporate brand standards such as company colors and logos. Personalization features let administrators create role-based pages containing content that is suitable for a given community. Individual users in each group can further personalize their desktops to meet their own needs and preferences.
- Out-of-the-box dashboard capabilities for customized visualization. With a point-and-click interface, a variety of ready-to-use graphical indicators and the ability to consume data from virtually any source, users can create their own personalized dashboards in just minutes. Quickly link to other, more detailed dashboards, detailed data and reports, SAS Stored Processes, SAS scorecards – anything that drives organizational performance.
- Security. With authentication and authorization systems that are founded on the use of centrally managed metadata, IT managers can quickly add new portal users, remove existing users or update the applications, information and data that is available to users.
- Scalability and support for standards. The SAS Information Delivery Portal uses a multitier, distributed application model built around open standards so that it can evolve while maintaining the ability to interact with different systems. Support for standards such as WebDAV ensure that the SAS Information Delivery Portal can collaborate with front- and back-office platforms. It also supports emerging RSS standards.
For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the SAS Information Delivery Portal fact sheet  . |
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