Interactive reporting and dashboards
Go directly from reporting and exploration, to analysis, to sharing information through different channels, including Microsoft Office applications, with a single interface.
Interactive reporting. Visual discovery. Self-service analytics. Scalability and governance. All from a single, powerful in-memory environment.
Smart visualizations
Present data and results in the most compelling way with advanced data visualization techniques and guided analysis through autocharting.
Self-service data preparation
Import your own data, join tables, apply basic data quality functions and more with easy drag-and-drop capabilities.
Self-service analytics
Automated forecasting, goal seeking, scenario analysis, decision trees and more are at your fingertips, no matter what your skill level is.
Text analysis
Gain insight from social media and other text data, and know whether sentiment is positive or negative.
Location analytics
Combine traditional data sources (transactional, customer, operational, etc.) with location data for analysis in a geographical context
SAS Visual Analytics Apps
Use native mobile apps for iOS, Windows 10 and Android to view and interact with others through dynamic reports and dashboards on tablets and smartphones.
Flexible deployment
Runs on commodity hardware, in a private or public cloud infrastructure, or Cloud Foundry platform as a service (PaaS).
A single application for reporting, data exploration and analytics.
See the big picture – and underlying connections.
Quickly identify important variables and relationships in your data using automated analysis backed by machine learning and natural language explanations that are easy to understand. Visually explore critical drivers for making better decisions. Find out why something happened, examine all options and uncover opportunities hidden deep in your data. Automatically highlight key relationships, outliers, clusters and more, revealing vital insights that inspire action.
Turn seeing into understanding with dynamic visuals.
Create stunning interactive reports and dashboards. Quickly summarize key performance metrics, and share them via the web and mobile devices. Executives and frontline staff can quickly interact with and collaborate on insights, slice and dice it to find their own answers, and better understand business performance.
Get answers backed by data, results driven by insight.
Easy-to-use predictive analytics enables even business analysts to assess possible outcomes and make smarter, data-driven decisions – no programming required. Smart algorithms and automated analysis reduce the need for manual experimentation. And you can work collaboratively with experts to focus on what’s most relevant.
Add the 'where' to the 'what.'
Add geographical context to your analyses and visualizations by combining traditional data with location data. Location analysis brings the “where” dimension to the forefront so you can analyze data in new ways to get the full picture before making decisions, while identifying location-specific opportunities.
Streamline the discovery process.
Self-service data preparation gives business users the ability to import their own data, join tables, apply data quality functions, create calculated columns and more – all with drag-and-drop ease. By empowering users to access, combine, clean and prepare their own data in an agile – and trusted – way, SAS Visual Analytics facilitates faster, broader adoption of analytics for your entire organization.
Interactive Demos
Check out these SAS Visual Analytics interactive demos to see how quickly and easily you can explore and understand data to resolve a variety of industry and business issues.
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Retail
Retail InsightsAnalyze regional store performance, and make data-driven decisions about retail business functions.
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Banking
Banking & Risk InsightsGet a holistic view of risk and performance across regions, down to the individual counterparty level.
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Communications
Network PerformanceMonitor customer experience and cell tower performance to safeguard brand reputation and customer loyalty.
Explore More on SAS® Visual Analytics & Beyond
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Customer Story
Providing a smooth transition for military veteransThe Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University uses data and analytics to serve those who have served their country.
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Customer Story
Shaping higher education through cloud analyticsGeorge Mason University relies on SAS Viya to uncover insights to improve operational effectiveness and increase student success.
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White Paper
Data Visualization TechniquesA picture is worth a thousand words – especially when you are trying to find relationships and understand your data – which could include thousands or even millions of variables. To create meaningful visuals of your data, there are some basic tips and techniques you should consider. Data size and composition play an important role when selecting graphs to represent your data. This paper, filled with graphics and explanations, discusses some of the basic issues concerning data visualization and provides suggestions for addressing those issues. From there, it moves on to the topic of big data and discusses those challenges and potential solutions as well. It also includes a section on SAS® Visual Analytics, software that was created especially for quickly visualizing very large amounts of data. Autocharting and "what does it mean" balloons can help even novice users create and interact with graphics that can help them understand and derive the most value from their data.
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White Paper
Enrich Your Data With Location AnalyticsLocation is more than a point on a map. It is a pathway to growth and better service. Matching up location information with big and little data can revolutionize business practices.
This e-book discusses the future of location analytics, highlights the SAS vision for enhancing business intelligence with location analytics, and shares examples of companies that have correlated location analytics with decision making to transform their businesses. Learn about some of the challenges that you need to keep in mind, such as security and privacy concerns, as well as strategies for implementing the use of location analytics.
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Managing the Analytics Life Cycle for Decisions at ScaleAnalytical models are at the heart of critical business decisions. But what’s the best way to create and manage these high-value assets when there are more decisions and data than ever?
The SAS Analytics Life Cycle guides you through the entire iterative process -- from data preparation and model development to model testing, deployment, monitoring, recalibration, and back again.
So you can automate as many decisions as possible, as quickly as possible.
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White Paper
How analytics changes the game for universitiesWith more than 38,000 students, The University of Alabama has a wealth of data – the challenge is using it effectively. It used to take weeks for Alabama’s data analysts to manually pull data and transcribe it into spreadsheets. Using analytics, they can now pull information and produce reports in minutes. Using analytics and data visualization has transformed the university’s operations, recruitment and retention efforts.
In addition, The University of Alabama offers an innovative hands-on analytics training to prepare students for valuable careers. Read on to see how analytics has changed everything for one university – and how you could take the same journey.
- Becoming a data driven organizationBeing data-driven is about giving the business decision makers the power to explore data and make predictions.
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White Paper
How any size organization can supersize results with data visualizationWhat can you see and discover when you’re able to explore trends and make predictions with your organization’s data? If you’re a midsize home delivery business, you can discover new ways to make customers happy. If you’re a local government agency, you can predict where your resources are needed most. And if you’re a growing hospital, you can bring life-changing patient data directly to doctors and nurses. In this e-book, we’ve profiled six organizations that are using self-service visual exploration to make big improvements in the way they work. From college administrators to professional sports teams, everyone makes better decisions with easy access to powerful, interactive analytics.
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White Paper
Advancing Your Business Intelligence With Location AnalyticsAbout 70 percent of business data contains some level of location information. When mapped in a geographical information system (GIS), location adds a new dimension to help better understand everything from consumer purchasing patterns to public utility needs to the spread of deadly diseases.
However, the power of location analytics has scarcely been tapped. Business analysts rarely use location data within traditional business intelligence and analytics workflows.
SAS sees location analytics as an extension of BI, so it was only natural to partner with GIS leader Esri to bring GIS and BI together. Now users can access self-service mapping and spatial analytics from within the intuitive SAS® Visual Analytics tool.
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White Paper
Reporting: What You Don't Know Will Hurt YouColleges and universities collect vast amounts and types of data – but it’s spread across different schools, departments and campuses in various formats and a multitude of systems. This paper examines how utilizing self-service analytics empowers users to fully exploit the wealth of data available through interactive reports for proactive and faster data-informed decision making. It also provides examples of how eight higher education institutions are using self-service analytics to drive change and transform their processes, operations and funding.
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White Paper
Bringing the Power of SAS® to HadoopWant to get even more value from your Hadoop implementation? Hadoop is an open-source software framework for running applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. As a result, it delivers fast processing and the ability to handle virtually limitless concurrent tasks and jobs, making it a remarkably low-cost complement to a traditional enterprise data infrastructure. This white paper presents the SAS portfolio of solutions that enable you to bring the full power of business analytics to Hadoop. These solutions span the entire analytic life cycle – from data management to data exploration, model development and deployment.
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White Paper
Enrich Your Data With Location AnalyticsLocation is more than a point on a map. It is a pathway to growth and better service. Matching up location information with big and little data can revolutionize business practices.
This e-book discusses the future of location analytics, highlights the SAS vision for enhancing business intelligence with location analytics, and shares examples of companies that have correlated location analytics with decision making to transform their businesses. Learn about some of the challenges that you need to keep in mind, such as security and privacy concerns, as well as strategies for implementing the use of location analytics.
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Customer Story
Shaping higher education through cloud analyticsGeorge Mason University relies on SAS Viya to uncover insights to improve operational effectiveness and increase student success.
- The Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (KNVB)KNVB has built a database of 3.6 million football fans and practitioners. The ‘single customer view’ gives KNVB and their partners the insights they need to effectively promote the love of the game across different target groups.
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Customer Story
Better customer service via machine learningAdvanced analytics helps Rogers Communications become more customer-centric, cutting customer complaints in half.
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Customer Story
Providing a smooth transition for military veteransThe Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University uses data and analytics to serve those who have served their country.
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Customer Story
Technology manufacturing backed by data transparencyVecima Networks optimizes its production process with SAS Visual Analytics.
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Customer Story
Finding your best customers with analyticsSeacoast Bank enhances customer value and generates insights using SAS Visual Analytics.
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Self-service analytics advances higher educationThe University of Central Florida depends on analytics and data visualization to uncover insights for increased student success.
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Customer Story
Finding the next football star with artificial intelligenceDutch sports analytics company SciSports uses emerging tech to innovate on the pitch.
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Interview
Location analytics: Why adding where makes BI betterLearn how location analytics can enrich your BI endeavors by blending geographic data, spatial analysis and business data for deeper insights.
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Article
Governed analytics and discovery: Balancing business user and IT needsTDWI provides seven steps for balancing IT governance needs with the expanding use of self-service BI and data discovery tools.
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Article
Five tips for faster, data-informed decision makingThree educational institutions share how they use data visualization to drive data-informed decision making. Five tips that apply to all organizations.
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Exploring the sun with big dataResearchers working for NASA are using automatic, exploratory and visual analysis of big data to help understand the mysteries of our universe.
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Become a strategic business partner using analytics in financeCollecting, validating and reporting information is no longer enough for finance professionals – it’s time to transform your role using analytics in finance.
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