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SAS® Enterprise BI Server

A fast, flexible business intelligence solution

SAS® Enterprise BI Server is a comprehensive, easy-to-use business intelligence software solution that integrates the power of SAS Analytics and SAS Data Management to provide insights that power better decisions. It includes role-based, self-service interfaces for all types of users within a well-defined IT governance framework and a centralized point of administration. This helps organizations simplify and speed business intelligence deployment.

Benefits

  • Provides the information needed to drive faster, better decisions.
  • Increases data consistency, enables data-driven decisions and streamlines administration.
  • Enables vendor consolidation and standardization with a comprehensive BI solution.

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How SAS® Is Different

  • SAS offers a fast, simple and complete BI solution that adds an easy-to-use presentation layer to the world’s best analytics, enabling fact-based decision making across the enterprise.
  • SAS Business Intelligence gives users at all different skill levels immediate access to cleansed and reliable data through targeted user interfaces that make use of centralized metadata.
  • All SAS software is built upon a comprehensive, unified framework, with all components designed to work together so you can eliminate the need for constant, ongoing technology integration.

Benefits

  • Provides the information needed to drive faster, better decisions. IT managers deploying SAS Enterprise BI Server can leverage previous investments, integrate BI quickly into existing environments and provide the information needed to drive the business forward as quickly as possible. This, with the added benefit of freeing resources from tedious tasks to focus on more strategic projects, ensures that IT is a driving force behind their organization's success.
  • Increases data consistency, enables data-driven decisions and streamlines administration. Through centrally managed data, security and shared metadata, SAS Enterprise BI Server delivers consistent representation and control of information by providing reliable results that can be easily traced back to the source. This alleviates the repetitive task of validating which reports or results are correct. In addition, integration with Microsoft Office allows IT to retake control of ad hoc Excel use without impeding users' desire for this familiar environment.
  • Enables vendor consolidation and standardization with a comprehensive BI solution. SAS Enterprise BI Server ensures that IT has the breadth of BI capabilities to meet the needs of every type of user, including managers looking for dashboards, groups that want to view or build reports on the Web, analysts or power users who need advanced data exploration, and IT staff who need to deploy, manage, control and maintain the entire solution.

Features

Portal and customizable dashboards

Point-and-click dashboard development enables users to create and customize their own dashboards in just minutes from virtually any data source.

Business visualization

Interactive visualization capabilities enable information producers to dynamically explore data, investigate patterns and uncover hidden facts. An extensive suite of customizable graphic presentation options present information and insights to information consumers that are not easily detected in tabular formats.

Web and desktop reporting

A wide variety of targeted, fit-to-task interfaces for report building, viewing and distribution open the power of SAS to all types of users with varying needs and skills, speeding better decision making while relieving the burden on IT.

Mobile analytics
A selection of easy-to-use data visualizations enables you to monitor key indicators and track trends from mobile devices.
Microsoft Office and SharePoint integration

Business users have seamless access to SAS Analytics and business intelligence from within their Microsoft Office applications, so it is easy for them to access data, perform queries and analysis, and create reports. They can also use familiar Microsoft Office functionality to distribute results to others.

Query and analysis

Information producers can easily access and query data on their own without having to learn new skills or make constant demands on IT for data and reports.

OLAP storage and OLAP data exploration interface

A powerful, multidimensional database is designed to handle large volumes of business intelligence data, and a specialized interface makes it easy to build and maintain OLAP data storage cubes. Business users can use their Web browsers to quickly and interactively look at summaries of large volumes of data from multiple angles.

Business metadata management

It's easy to map physical data structures to readily understood business terms so that business users can self-sufficiently access consistent information. An open, central repository means metadata can be integrated, centrally managed and shared across the enterprise.

Flexible deployment options

Flexible deployment options can help you quickly integrate business intelligence into your existing organizational environment.

Guided analysis and model development

SAS® Enterprise Guide® provides a dynamic Microsoft Windows interface for guided analysis and model development that enables business analysts, statisticians and programmers to easily access data and leverage SAS Analytics and efficient processing across all enterprise platforms.

Applications development

In addition to the programming capabilities provided in SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS® AppDev Studio™ provides a comprehensive environment for developing and customizing applications using a variety of languages and platform choices.

Demos

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Monitor performance at-a-glance with interactive dashboards

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Take action with fact-based decision support

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Self-service BI in a familiar interface

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Actionable data across the enterprise

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Mobile Analytics

With SAS partner MeLLmo, deliver actionable intelligence to decision makers on the go with interactive data visualizations through Roambi.

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Enterprise BI Dashboard

With SAS Enterprise BI Server, users can go from data to dashboards in seconds.

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View reports and KPIs

SAS Business Intelligence allows users to view reports and KPIs from within Microsoft Outlook.

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SAS Enterprise Guide

The point-and-click interface guides users through the analytical process, making it easy to create reports, graphs and charts.

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System Requirements

Host Platforms
  • HP/UX on Itanium: 11iv3 (11.31)
  • HP/UX on PA-RISC: 11iv3 (11.31)
  • IBM AIX on POWER architectures: 6.1 and 7.1
  • IBM z/OS: V1R10 and higher
  • Linux (32-bit): Novell SuSE 10 and 11; RHEL 5 and 6
  • Linux x64 (64-bit): Novell SuSE 10 and 11; RHEL 5 and 6
  • Microsoft Windows (32-bit): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista *, Windows 7**, Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Server 2008 family
  • Microsoft Windows on x64 (64-bit): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64, Windows Server 2003 family for x64, Windows Server 2008 family for x64
  • Solaris on SPARC: Version 10 Update 8
  • Solaris on x64 (x64-86): Version 10 Update 8
Client Tier
  • Microsoft Windows (32-bit): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista*, Windows 7**
  • Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64
Web Tier
  • IBM WebSphere 7.0.0.13 on: AIX, Linux x64, Solaris (SPARC and x64), Windows x64, z/OS
  • JBoss EAP 4.3 on: AIX on Power, HP/UX on Itanium, Linux x64, Solaris (SPARC and x64), Windows x64
  • Oracle WebLogic 10gr3 and 11gr1 on: AIX on Power, HP/UX on Itanium, Linux x64, Solaris (SPARC an x64), Windows x64
Supported Web Browsers
  • Internet Explorer 7 and 8: Windows Vista* (32-bit and x64), Windows 7** (32-bit and x64), Windows XP Professional (32-bit and x64)
  • Firefox 3.6 : Windows Vista* (32-bit and x64), Windows 7** (32-bit and x64), Windows XP Professional (32-bit and x64), Linux 32-bit, Linux x64

You can also review the Third-party Support page for details about which operating environments support the Web application servers (such as IBM WebSphere).

Required and Optional Software
  • SAS® Enterprise Guide®, SAS® AppDev Studio TM and SAS Grid Manager are add-on modules
  • ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 Server with Service Pack 5 or ESRI ArcGIS 10.0 is required for GIS capabilities
  • Adobe Flash Player 10 is required for some components of SAS Enterprise BI Server

* NOTE: Windows Vista supported editions are: Enterprise, Ultimate and Business.
** NOTE: Windows 7 supported editions are: Enterprise, Ultimate and Professional.

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