Analytics

SAS® Visual Analytics brings The Power To Know to business users, enabling them to visually explore data quickly to see patterns and trends… and identify opportunities on the fly. With SAS® Visual Analytics you can:

• Empower everyone with advanced analytics. Users of all skills levels can conduct fast, thorough explorations on all available data. Forecast the future. Experiment with different scenarios. Analyse text data. Discover your best options and make more precise decisions, all with no coding required.
• Answer complex questions faster. SAS® Visual Analytics uses in-memory analytics to provide extremely fast results, meaning users can quickly identify areas of opportunity or concern, even among billions of rows of data.
• Drive collaboration and information sharing. Encourage conversations around your organisation's data by making information easily accessible, be that through Microsoft Office applications, mobile or the web, whilst allowing IT to maintain control of the underlying data and security.
• Deliver self-service capabilities on an enterprise wide level. SAS® Visual Analytics enables many users to visually explore and analyse huge volumes of data – all at the same time. This gives users across multiple departments or lines of business an unprecedented way to discover new insights and solve complex problems faster than ever.

Explore SAS Visual Analytics

• A complete enterprise platform for analytics visualisation. Interactive, self-service BI and reporting capabilities, combined with out-of-the-box advanced analytics.
• Easy to use. An easy-to-use interface with drag-and-drop analytics, means users of all skills levels can produce analytic visualisations and gain new insights from data, with no coding required.
• Flexible to meet your requirements. Whether you prefer to use an on-site single server or distributed hardware, in your own private cloud, in a public cloud such as Amazon or in the SAS Cloud environment, we offer the options to fit your organization's needs.

• SAS® Visual Statistics
  Take exploration deeper. SAS® Visual Statistics provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop tool for business power users to rapidly build descriptive and predictive models on data of any size.
• SAS® LASR™ Analytic Server
  Analyse data in-memory to deliver near instantaneous results, even from huge volumes of data

Find the value in your data – big or small – and use it to your advantage. SAS® Visual Statistics combines industry-leading analytics with a powerful in-memory engine and an intuitive interface that allows users to take exploration deeper and build descriptive and predictive models on data of any size.

• Get precise answers from diverse data. Quickly surface insights hidden in vast stores of data. And discover and evaluate new opportunities. SAS® Visual Statistics combines powerful, predictive analytics with visual data exploration capabilities in a single, interactive environment. The result? Business analysts and statisticians can do more with data than ever before.
• Develop more models faster. With greater precision. Run your models in minutes or seconds with our multicore processing environment. Build models to target specific groups or segments. Run multiple scenarios simultaneously. Ask more what-if questions. All using data volumes never before possible.
• Make data scientists and statisticians more productive. Stay agile in a big data world, thanks to in-memory processing. Multiple users can customize models – by adding or changing variables, removing outliers, etc. – and quickly see how those changes affect model outcomes. You get greater productivity from your analytic talent, and greater value from your analytics.

Explore SAS Visual Statistics

Build predictive models, fast. Only SAS combines industry-leading analytics with a powerful in-memory engine and an intuitive interface, so you can build predictive models faster than you ever imagined.

Exploit big data with high-performance analytics from SAS to handle your most complex challenges, and generate high-impact insights leading to real business value.

• Transform big data assets into real business value. SAS empowers your organization to transform structured and unstructured data into high-value assets using big data analytics.
• Gain rapid insights from your big data. Near real-time insights at the point of decision giving you the ability to seize new opportunities and effectively manage risks.
• Go deeper into your data and solve your most complex problems. Use more granular data and more complex analytical algorithms with the power of SAS high-performance analytics solutions.

• Solve complex problems quickly and make better decisions faster. Concurrent, multi-user data access. Extremely fast analytic operations. Optimized for distributed in-memory processing. SAS high-performance analytics solutions allow you to make better decisions faster.
• Reduce data movement and deploy models quickly in-database. SAS in-database solutions execute data management and analytic tasks inside the database. This promotes data consistency by reducing unnecessary data movement. And using massively parallel processing (MPP) database architecture means you can deploy predictive models – and get results – more quickly.
• Increase efficiency with centrally managed grid computing. As the use of business analytics grows, so does the need for a flexible IT infrastructure – one that can scale cost-effectively, meet peak demands and manage growing, increasingly diverse user workloads. With our grid computing capabilities, you can create a managed, shared environment with high availability and workload balancing. And process large volumes of data and analytic programs more efficiently.

Want to know what will happen in the future? Find the most lucrative opportunities? Get insights into impending outcomes? No problem. With our data mining software, you can:

• Simplify data preparation. Interact with your data quickly and intuitively using dynamic charts and graphs to understand key relationships.
• Quickly and easily create better models. Take the guesswork out of building models that are both stable and accurate using proven techniques and a drag-and-drop interface that's both easy-to-use and powerful.
  
• Put your best models into service. Fast. Spend less time and effort scoring new data using automated, interactive processes that work in both batch and real-time environments.

Explore SAS^® Enterprise Miner^™

• Unshakeable leadership in data mining and predictive analytics. "The Forrester Wave^™: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q1 2013" called SAS an "analytics powerhouse" with an "unshakeable" leadership status for big data predictive analytics.
• Modern, industry-specific techniques. The breadth and depth of our data mining algorithms extend to industry-specific algorithms (for credit scoring, clinical data analysis, etc.), making our solutions best-in-class for solving a variety of business issues.
  
• Flexible processing and deployment – not one size fits all. From simple desktop, single-machine solutions all the way to high-performance, distributed processing, we've got options that fit your needs.

Learn about SAS^® Enterprise Miner^™

• Credit Scoring for SAS Enterprise Miner
  Build, validate and deploy credit risk models using in-house expertise.
• SAS High-Performance Data Mining
  Quickly analyze big data to derive more accurate insights and make timely business decisions.
• SAS Model Manager
  Create, manage, deploy, monitor and operationalize analytical models.
• SAS Scoring Accelerator
  Automate model-scoring processes within the database to improve model scoring performance and get faster results.
• SAS Text Miner
  Discover topics and patterns in entire document collections using supervised, semisupervised and unsupervised techniques to mine unstructured data sources.
• SAS Visual Statistics
  Enhance predictive analytics through in-memory processing and a visual interface that helps you rapidly build, test and refine models.

Generate large quantities of high-quality forecasts quickly and automatically – no need for human intervention (unless desired). And streamline your forecasting processes so you can focus efforts on the most important, high-value decisions. With SAS, you can:

• Reduce the opportunity for personal bias. Generate trustworthy forecasts – automatically. That means less manual intervention, which reduces the chance that organizational politics or personal agendas will contaminate forecasts.
• Get easy access to powerful forecasting techniques. An easy-to-use GUI gives you the power of SAS forecasting without having to write code. The software also provides a batch environment that gives advanced users access to an even fuller set of capabilities using the SAS programming language.
• Plan more effectively for the future. A virtually unlimited model repository provides models for a wide range of behaviors. You can test what-if scenarios to determine the likely impact on your forecasts. Account for both planned and unplanned events. And mine, segment and visualize data interactively.

Explore SAS^® Forecast Server

• Large-scale, automatic forecasts. Execute the forecasting process more efficiently using fewer resources. Model virtually any type of behavior, and incorporate past and future events into your forecasts. Choose your level of automation – from simple forecasting, to time-series diagnosis and remodeling.
• Time series exploration and analysis. Understand the structure of your data prior to forecasting. Identify outliers, missing values or other data issues. Segment and manipulate data for better modeling.
• Time series data management. Convert transactional data to time series format. Read and prepare data from virtually any source, including publicly available databases. And use flexible hierarchies to organize data most appropriately depending on your forecasting challenge.

Learn about SAS^® Forecast Server

• SAS/ETS
  Simulate and forecast business processes with econometric and time series analysis.
• SAS Forecasting for Desktop
  Automatically generate forecasts to help small and midsize businesses forecast more effectively.