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SAS® Visual BI

Dynamic and interactive business visualization

SAS® Visual BI, powered by JMP® software, provides dynamic business visualization, enabling business users to interactively explore ideas and information, investigate patterns and discover previously hidden facts through visual queries. Business users gain instantaneous insight into relationships and patterns in data by viewing and interacting with information in ways that static charts and Excel spreadsheets cannot match.

Benefits

  • Visually query data.
  • Overcome data limitations.
  • Interact with data to gain insights into relationships and patterns.
  • See long-term trends instead of year-to-date views.
  • Make better, faster decisions and share results throughout your organization.

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Features

  • Highly interactive business graphics.
  • Visual querying and data filtering.
  • Visual analytics.
  • Leverage core SAS capabilities.

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The motion-enabled bubble plot harnesses and displays up to seven dimensions of data at one time.



How SAS® Is Different

  • With SAS Visual BI, you get easy-to-use dynamic visualization capabilities integrated with world-class analytics. This means users don't have to depend on IT to service their ad hoc requests.
  • Business users can explore the right data on their own, see trends and communicate the results quickly where needed across the entire organization.
  • Users can drill deep into content and explore a virtually unlimited number of columns and records – transcending information silos, diverse computing platforms and niche tools to discover new insights that drive business value.

Benefits

  • Visually query data. Instead of developing complex data queries in SQL or a prompter, users can simply drag across points in a graph or click subsets in a mosaic plot. Because querying is simple, fast and dynamic, users can visually ask and answer questions to derive additional value from their information assets, without requiring IT services.
  • Overcome data limitations. SAS Visual BI, with the ability to process up to two billion rows and an unlim­ited number of columns and records, enables users to explore vast amounts of data and handle large, real-world problems.
  • Interact with data to gain insights into relationships and patterns. With SAS Visual BI, users can graphically view and interact with data from multiple dimensions. Data, graphs and tables are linked so it is easy to notice patterns. Just point and click, drag and drop to explore areas of interest. Visualizing results graphically can lead more quickly to new insights.
  • See long-term trends instead of year-to-date views. Create graphics with many distinct variables, and with motion-enabled graphics you can watch as trends become clear.
  • Make better, faster decisions and share results throughout your organization. Tight integration with SAS Enterprise BI Server means business users can make better decisions faster based on new insights and easily share results across the organization.

Features

Highly interactive business graphics.
  • Animated bubble plots show data with sized bubbles that move over time.
  • 3-D scatter plots with categorical and continuous data.
  • Scatter plot matrix with categorical and continuous data.
  • Trellis plots.
  • Summary charts.
  • Line plots.
  • Needle charts.
Visual querying and data filtering.
  • Handle unlimited data.
  • Rearrange data at will.
  • Interactive tabulation.
Visual analytics.
  • Interactive simulations and optimization.
  • State-of-the-art time series modeling.
  • Exploratory and predictive data analysis.
Leverage core SAS capabilities.
  • Analytics.
  • Stored services and processes.
  • Metadata.
  • SAS code.
  • SAS reports and output.

Screenshots

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The motion-enabled bubble plot harnesses and displays up to seven dimensions of data at one time.

The motion-enabled bubble plot harnesses and displays up to seven dimensions of data at one time. The time variable lets you play the graph in continuous time, with the positions, colors and sizes interpolated across the time data points into smooth motion, revealing data patterns and relationships. Simply point and click to turn labels on and off, subset data or get more detail about any data point.

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System Requirements

System Requirements

SAS Visual BI software is a desktop product that runs on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. It marries the dynamic data visualization of SAS' JMP® software with the integrated platform of SAS Enterprise BI Server.

Windows System Requirements
  • Microsoft Windows (x86-32): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista*, Windows 7**
  • Microsoft Windows (x64***): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64
  • Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher
Macintosh System Requirements
  • OS: Any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.5 or higher
Required Software (on Server)
Notes

*     Windows Vista supported editions are Enterprise, Business and Ultimate.
**    Windows 7 supported editions are Enterprise, Professional and Ultimate.
***   JMP 64-bit Edition only

Please contact your SAS representative with any additional questions about technical requirements.

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