Key Benefits

• Leverage/reuse work by others. A common repository enables the centralized storage, management and reuse of work based on user authorizations, reducing both development and maintenance time.
• Improve productivity. A GUI environment that is easy to use provides a standard interface for building and documenting work. Collaboration is encouraged and manual coding, though available when needed, is minimized. New team members can get up to speed quickly on work done by others, which is important when documentation is inadequate or missing.
• Always access the data you need. From older legacy systems to the latest ERP applications, data from virtually any hardware platform or operating system can be accessed and processed. New source systems can easily be added and security managed centrally. This saves time, shortens learning curves and gives decision makers the information they need.
• Manage security and administration at all levels. Reusable templates make it quick and easy to provide role-based authorizations and administrative privileges at the user, department or enterprise level.
• Meet time constraints even within decreasing windows of availability. SAS processes data fast! Organizations can take advantage of the grid-enabled load-balanced, multithreaded parallel processing architecture that can quickly process, transform and move data between different platforms and systems.
• Deliver consistent, trusted and verifiable information. Consistently getting correct data when and where it is needed provides increased confidence in the accuracy and timeliness of operational and business information. Data quality auditing tools monitor the quality of data in processes and source systems. Users can see where data originated and how it was transformed. Optional enrichment components can add value and ensure the best possible data.
• Eliminate overlapping, redundant tools and systems with one solution. SAS offers the only comprehensive enterprise data integration solution that is built from the ground up to meet the full spectrum of data integration needs. It eliminates the piecemeal approach of linking and managing technologies from different vendors and provides lower overall cost, reduced risk and faster results.

Key Features

• An interactive data integration development environment provides developers with an easy-to-use, point-and-click GUI that uses an intuitive set of configurable windows for managing multiple data integration development processes.
• Enterprise connectivity to virtually all data sources and types, operating systems and hardware environments gives you the ability to get data from, or put data to, almost anywhere.
• Integrated, customizable data quality routines accelerate data cleansing by analyzing and eliminating duplicate and inaccurate data as it is drawn through the data integration processes.
• Superior ETL functionality and a point-and-click design enable developers to easily build process workflows, read and reuse metadata from data stores and create business rules and transformations in metadata, enabling the rapid generation of reusable data integration services.
• Shared metadata provides a consistent definition across data sources to speed integration projects, simplify design and reduce maintenance costs.
• Migration and synchronization capabilities enable you to migrate, synchronize and replicate data across different operational systems and data sources. Powerful data transformations are available for altering, reformatting and consolidating information during these processes.
• Data federation capabilities enable you to query and use data across multiple systems without the physical reconciliation or movement of source data.
• Built-in wizards make it easy to create your own data integration services that can be called in real time, near real time and batch modes.

For more information, refer to the SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server fact sheet.

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