Query & Analysis

SAS business intelligence offers Web-based wizards and interfaces and Microsoft Office interfaces that make it simple for users across organizations to query and analyze data. The easy-to-use environment of SAS Enterprise BI Server enables users at all skill levels to access virtually any data source and combine data from multiple platforms in a single query.

Complex analyses can be performed in familiar Microsoft Office environments so business users can ask their most challenging questions and get the answers they need quickly and easily, while IT is able to spend time concentrating on more strategic objectives.

SAS delivers end-to-end linked technologies, including data access, data quality and a common metadata layer, that provide consistent data and business rules and ensure that large volumes of raw data are converted into accurate information for query and analysis. A single source of integrated metadata means that users across an organization are pulling the same data when making decisions. So the entire organization shares a single version of the truth.

Key Benefits

• Interfaces provide multiple ways to get to data (local or enterprise level).
• Users can perform queries without having to learn new skills.

Key Features

• Self-service query capabilities are available for all levels of users based on needs and skills.
• Wizard-driven query capabilities are integrated within the business user reporting environment.
• Complexity of data structures are hidden from average business user.
• Queries can be performed across multiple data sources (databases and platforms) using relational or multidimensional data.