Small & Midsize Business Solutions

Advanced data analysis in an easy-to-use package. True predictive insights, rather than summaries and basic graphs. State-of-the-art forecasting methods – no programming knowledge required. And reduced cost, complexity and IT dependence. Our small and midsize business solutions include:

• Automated forecasting. The solution automatically builds the most appropriate models for your data to minimize errors due to human intervention, bias or lack of expertise.
  
• Advanced data analysis. A broad range of analytical techniques – regression, multivariate analysis, cluster analysis, etc. – give you a tremendous advantage in exploring connections and uncovering hidden relationships.
  

Know how specific variables will affect your business. Predict which decisions will produce the best outcomes. Make decisions based on facts rather than gut feel. And free IT from time-consuming ad hoc query and reporting tasks. Only SAS empowers you to:

• Run what-if scenarios to test current strategies and plan for all the possibilities – with confidence.
  
• Choose the right strategy for the business by modeling various scenarios and testing your hypotheses to know what's best.
  
• Visually explore and analyze your data with easy-to-use, intuitive tools. You even have the option to work in Microsoft Office.
  

A dynamic, interactive environment that lets you visually explore your data. Fast report creation that gets information into the hands of the right people at the right time. And easy information sharing that encourages collaboration and smarter decision making. With SAS, you get:

• Customizable dashboards and portals. Easily share information, view key performance indicators (KPIs) at a glance and enable users to drill down to more detailed information as needed.
• Ready-to-use templates and graphics. Speed report creation and tailor templates and graphics to fit your needs.
  
• Automated workflow alerts. Set alerts to automatically prompt actions so nothing falls through the cracks.
  

Find answers to sophisticated questions faster. Present results in a high-quality, easy-to-understand format. And quickly share that insight with others so everyone can make well-informed, fact-based decisions. With SAS, you can:

• Easily create and share insight using a single, Web-based interface for all types of reports.
  
• Choose from a wide range of reporting options – from simple, Web-based reports to complex desktop workbenches.
  
• Empower users with varying skill levels to explore data visually to get the information they need with easy-to-understand graphics.
  
• Integrate with Microsoft Office so users can share findings through a familiar interface.
  

Your organization – or your data – may not be very big. But the value of the insight hiding in your data is. SAS can help you uncover those insights with an analytics discovery environment that’s easy to use and just the right size. In addition, you get:

• Blazingly fast insights on all your data – no subsetting or sampling required.
  
• Access to critical information anytime, anywhere – on Apple^® iPads^® and Android OS tablets – even when there’s no Internet connection.
  
• Flexible deployment options – on-site or in the cloud – mean we fit the solution to your business… not the other way around.
  

Visually explore all your data, quickly and easily. Uncover hidden opportunities. Identify key relationships. And make more precise decisions, faster than ever before. Only SAS delivers:

• In-memory analytics. Speed up processing and get lightning-fast insights.
  
• Easy analytics. Explore any size data, ask complex questions, test more hypotheses and uncover hidden opportunities – without having to be a rocket scientist, or even a data scientist.
  
• Mobile BI. SAS Mobile BI with mobile tethering enables you to explore and interact with reports wherever you are – even when there’s no Internet access.
  
• The ultimate in deployment flexibility. Deploy the software on-site using your hardware, in your own private cloud, in a public cloud or in the the SAS Cloud.
  

Out-of-the-box access to all your data – from emails, call centers, websites, databases, ERP systems, PC files and more – no IT help needed. Data that’s clean, accurate and trustworthy – without all the guesswork. And a complete picture of your customers, products and operations – not a partial view of your business. SAS takes the hassle out of data management for small and midsize businesses with capabilities for:

• Data profiling. Analyze and assess the quality of your data to quickly identify where potential problems exist and how much effort is required to fix them.
• Metadata management. Ensure consistent definition across data sources to speed integration projects, simplify design and reduce maintenance costs.
  
• Extract, transform and load (ETL) and extract, load and transform (ELT). Easily build logical process workflows, quickly identify the input and output data stores and create business rules in metadata – enabling rapid generation of data warehouses, data marts and data streams.
• Migration and synchronization. Easily migrate, synchronize and replicate data across different operational systems and data sources.
  
• Data federation. Query and use data across multiple systems without physically reconciling or moving source data.
  

Get the data you need, whenever you need it – no matter where it resides. Simplify and streamline data management by eliminating overlapping, redundant tools and complex system architectures. And address all your data integration requirements – from small departmental projects to strategic business initiatives.

• Address all your data concerns up front, or just focus on what matters most today and add on as you go.
  
• Integrate, cleanse and enrich it to get a single, unified view of your business.
  
• Combine structured data with unstructured data – from emails, audio recordings, call centers and social networking sites – to obtain the integrated, accurate information you need to maintain a competitive edge.