In the Spotlight Spotlight on SAS Enterprise Guide Find out how SAS Enterprise Guide integrates an array of analytics with the power of SAS in a friendly interface that allows business analysts to produce the reports they need.

What is SAS Enterprise Guide? SAS Enterprise Guide is a powerful Microsoft Windows client application that provides a guided mechanism to exploit the power of SAS and publish dynamic results throughout the organization.

Why is SAS Enterprise Guide important? It is the preferred graphical interface to SAS for business analysts, statisticians and programmers and a key application in SAS Business Intelligence offerings.

For whom is SAS Enterprise Guide designed? SAS Enterprise Guide is designed for use by business analysts, programmers and statisticians.

Key Benefits Liberate IT by providing business analysts and statisticians with a self-service environment tailored to meet their needs. Only SAS Enterprise Guide integrates the extensive array of analytics with the power of SAS software in an efficient, friendly graphical user interface application. Business analysts can produce the analyses and distribute reports they need, freeing IT to focus on other strategic projects. Provide self-sufficient and easy access to enterprise data sources for business analysts, statisticians and programmers. SAS Enterprise Guide is the only front end that provides a guided mechanism to access data across the enterprise on multiple platforms, operating systems and databases, in conjunction with access to advanced analytics and other SAS capabilities. Quickly adapt to changing organizational needs with distribution mechanisms that make reporting and analytics available to the masses. The ability to develop and deploy customized tasks lets users extend the core functionality to create custom wizards, which can be easily distributed throughout the enterprise. Information can be delivered to the masses through an established publishing framework. Key Features Guided analytics. SAS Enterprise Guide provides a graphical user interface that allows transparent access to the power of SAS. A process flow diagram facility lets users organize, view and maintain their projects visually. SAS Enterprise Guide also delivers many “out-of-box” reporting, graphical and analytical tasks, as well as wizard-based tasks. Advanced users can create programs that produce tables and charts that can be easily embedded in other SAS applications and easily and securely shared. Data access and management. SAS Enterprise Guide allows users to visually access any data types supported by SAS and native Windows data types. Users can create, update, subset and join tables themselves without involving IT specialists using a powerful, graphical Query Builder. OLAP exploitation. SAS Enterprise Guide provides a dedicated, intuitive and advanced interface for analyzing business information stored in OLAP data cubes. The OLAP Analyzer supports all the functionality required to navigate through multidimensional data, add topic-specific business calculations and extract information from multidimensional sources for further analysis. Result distribution and sharing. SAS Enterprise Guide presents users with only the tasks they need to perform their jobs based on their roles in the organization. SAS Enterprise Guide is integrated with the Microsoft Windows Scheduler, enabling users to refresh reports regularly. For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the SAS Enterprise Guide fact sheet.