Small & Midsize Business Solutions

Midmarket and small business analytics that deliver advanced data analysis in an easy-to-use package. True predictive insights that unearth opportunities you would otherwise miss. And the ability to solve even your most intractable problems, with minimal dependence on IT, through:

• Easy analytics. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist – or even a data scientist – to get value out of big data with sophisticated analytics for small and midmarket businesses. Our drag-and-drop approach to analytics means no coding is required. SAS gives you statistical analysis, reporting and high-impact visuals – all from one vendor, all in one package – directly from your PC.
  
• Automated forecasting. Access state-of-the-art forecasting methods with an easy-to-use GUI that puts the power of SAS^® forecasting at your fingertips – without having to write code. Our solution automatically selects the most appropriate model and parameters from a comprehensive repository.
  
• Desktop data mining. Find the most lucrative opportunities, get insights into hidden relationships, and plan confidently for the future using proven techniques and a drag-and-drop interface that take the guesswork out of building models.

Make decisions based on facts – not gut feel. Predict which decisions will lead to the best outcomes. And free IT from time-consuming, ad hoc query and reporting tasks. Only midmarket and small business analytics from SAS empower you to:

• Access, manipulate, analyze and present data directly from your PC. A complete set of powerful data analysis and graphical tools lets you access data from nearly any source, analyze it and transform it into meaningful information. You can then present the information in high-impact visuals that enable decision makers to quickly grasp critical issues. 
  
• Run SAS from a familiar Microsoft Office environment. A wide range of sophisticated statistical analysis capabilities are available directly from Excel, Word or PowerPoint, and data access engines let you tap into a variety of data sources – e.g., Excel, Access, dBase, Lotus or any ODBC-compliant data source.
• Improve your forecasts and your business decisions. Generate trustworthy forecasts quickly and automatically with access to forecasting techniques not otherwise available via desktop office productivity tools.
• Get powerful SAS data mining and machine learning capabilities right on your PC. Highly evolved data exploration, variable transformation and analytical modeling techniques make it easy for analytics professionals and business analysts to design and collaborate on predictive analytics projects.

• SAS^® Analytics Pro for Midsize Business
  Access, analyze and present business data with a comprehensive analytical toolset that combines statistical analysis, reporting and high-impact visuals directly on your PC.
• SAS^® Desktop Data Mining for Midsize Business
  Spot trends and identify business opportunities from your desktop.
• SAS^® Forecasting for Desktop
  Automatically generates forecasts to help you plan more efficiently and effectively.
• SAS^® Forecasting for Midsize Business
  Plan confidently with automatically generated, reliable forecasts.
• SAS^® Office Analytics for Midsize Business
  Access the power of SAS Analytics from a familiar Microsoft Office environment.
• Solutions for Finance
  Drive profitability and make better decisions with profit analytics and financial decision analytics through our partnership with CT Global Solutions.
  
  

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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.

• A single application for BI, data exploration and analytics. Design and distribute BI reports and dashboards and explore data through interactive data visualization – all from a single application. Many vendors offer visualization and pretty graphics. But only SAS adds easy-to-use, yet powerful analytics in one accessible, enterprise-class BI solution.
• Easy analytics. Explore data of any size, ask complex questions, test more hypotheses and uncover hidden opportunities – without having to be a rocket scientist, or even a data scientist.
• Mobile BI. Mobile tethering lets you explore and interact with reports wherever you are. You can access critical information anytime, anywhere – on Apple^® iPad^® and Android OS tablets.
• The ultimate in deployment flexibility. Deploy our software on-site using your hardware, in your own private cloud, in a public cloud or in the SAS Cloud. We fit the solution to your business – not the other way around.

Visually explore all your data, quickly and easily. Find hidden opportunities. Identify patterns and key relationships that weren't previously evident. And make better decisions, faster than ever before. No matter the industry, SAS provides small and midmarket business solutions that can help you:

• Understand what your data has to tell you. Compelling visuals backed by analytics are explained in terms that everyone can understand.
• Do it yourself, and set IT free. A self-service, ad hoc visualization environment lets you load, explore and share data on your own, without burdening IT. 
• Access business-critical information anytime, anywhere. SAS Mobile BI with mobile tethering enables you to explore and interact with reports wherever you are on iPad or Android tablets, and on smartphones – even when there’s no Internet access.

SAS enables small and midmarket businesses to explore data, create rich visuals and share insights with solutions that address the needs of your industry. Check out these interactive reports created with SAS Visual Analytics:

• Banking
  Risk and Capital Management – Analyze your portfolio risk across subsidiaries and lines of business, and predict how changing market conditions will affect them.
  
• Communications
  Wireless Call Quality – Analyze call quality by cell technology, phone make, territory or switch type.
• Insurance
  Risk & Profitability – Analyze business performance, loss frequency and severity, and catastrophe exposures.
• Life Sciences
  Patient Safety – Analyze patient risk factors across such dimensions as symptoms, lab tests, medication or patient cohort.
  
• Manufacturing
  Asset Reliability & Integrity – Analyze sensor data to avoid the costs of unplanned equipment maintenance and downtime.
  
• Retail
  Revenue Optimization – Find out which of your products are not priced competitively, which ones should be considered for a price markdown, and how well your promotional plans are performing. 
  
• Utilities
  Smart Meter Management – Analyze consumption trends, identify demand patterns, and target various customer segments with specific energy efficiency campaigns.
  

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Good decisions. Smart business moves. Successful customer interactions. Made possible by high-quality, well-integrated data. SAS empowers midmarket businesses with market-leading capabilities for:

• Data quality – Profile, standardize, monitor and verify data wherever it resides. Establish repeatable processes for building and maintaining high-quality data regardless of the volume or speed of the data that flows into and out of your organization.
  
• Data integration – A single point of control with an intuitive interface lets you quickly and easily access the data you need.
• Solutions for Hadoop – Level the playing field with your larger industry peers by easily loading data from relational data sources or SAS data sets to and from Hadoop so it's ready for advanced analytics.
  
• Data management – As your business grows, know that SAS has the experience and the data management solutions to help you meet the high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety world of big data and big data analytics.

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.

• Establish high standards for data quality to support business processes. A unified, scalable platform enables you to profile, monitor and standardize data, as well as set up repeatable processes to ensure your data remains a valuable asset.
• Efficiently manage all your data integration projects while reducing costs and boosting productivity. Easily build logical process workflows, quickly identify input and output data stores, and create business rules in metadata for fast generation of data warehouses, data marts and data streams.
• Manage big data on your own – without specialized skills and without outsourcing. Turn big data into a valuable part of your data integration strategy by quickly and easily accessing and manipulating data stored in Hadoop, and free IT to focus on other priorities.
  
• Give everyone access to high-quality data whenever they need it. A unified platform eliminates overlapping, redundant data management tools, while boosting productivity, reducing costs and improving data governance.
  

• Data Management Solutions from SAS
  Manage your data as a valuable asset.
• SAS^® Data Integration for Midsize Business
  Easily manage all data integration projects while reducing costs and increasing overall productivity.
  
• SAS^® Data Loader for Hadoop
  Bridge the technology gap and manage big data on your own terms with self-service data integration and data quality.
  
• SAS^® Data Quality for Midsize Business
  Profile, standardize, monitor and verify all your structured and unstructured data.

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Better customer profitability. Streamlined, consistent marketing processes. Along with outstanding brand image and product quality. Our customer analytics solutions help you collect, analyze and report on customer experiences as you manage:

• Social media. Identify and harness top social network influencers and their communities.
• Customer data. Gather all the right data – where and when you need it – from across the entire customer life cycle.
• Customer segmentation. Know which customer groups are most likely to purchase your products and services – and why.
• Marketing mix. Analyze, forecast and optimize your mix of advertising and promotions – through websites, emails, social media, forums and more.
• Real-time decisions. Make the best offers to the right customers at the right time – in real time.
  

Collect a wealth of customer data in real time, across every channel. Analyze the information to get a single view of each customer. Then use the insights to improve responsiveness, make more relevant offers, and use your sales and marketing resources more efficiently. SAS helps you to:

• Understand the attitudes behind customer behaviors. Use real-time data collection, advanced analytics and business logic to reveal customers’ buying plans, significant life changes and other factors that play into purchase decisions and sentiment.
• Create interactive offers and highly targeted campaigns that really hit the mark. Segment customers based on cross-channel behavior, and use sophisticated communication optimization algorithms to identify the best times and channels for communicating – and the best offer to present at the perfect moment.
• Shrink the amount of time and resources needed for every aspect of the sales and marketing process. Optimize your messages and offers, and use segmentation valuation and next-best-action models to predict customer behavior for more accurate targeting and personalized marketing.

• SAS^® Adaptive Customer Experience
  Create a complete customer profile based on online and offline data for more targeted, personalized communications.
• SAS^® Intelligent Advertising for Publishers
  Gain complete control over your online advertising and make ad server processes more efficient.
• SAS^® Marketing Automation
  Get more campaigns out the door in an automated, trackable and highly repeatable fashion.
• SAS^® Marketing Optimization
  Make the most of each customer contact by determining how business variables will affect outcomes.

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SAS is committed to making analytics available, approachable and affordable for your growing business. From desktop to server, on-site or in the cloud, with implementation and support services from us or our partners, we have an analytics solution that will work for you.

• Priced right. With a variety of solutions packaged and priced for the midmarket business – from small manufacturers, to local banks, to community hospitals – cost is no longer a barrier to obtaining powerful analytic tools that will help your business grow and compete.
• From desktop to server. Our desktop applications use the same user interface and algorithms as our server-based solutions, so as you grow, the solution grows with you with a quick, seamless transition – no retraining, no reformatting.
• From on-site to in the cloud. SAS enables you to extend the power of analytics in the way that works best for your midmarket business, with on-site, hosted and cloud options. SAS Cloud Analytics allows you to subscribe to and access SAS tools and solutions through a SAS-hosted, private cloud environment.
• Partners. We partner with companies that specialize in hardware, platforms, system integration, consulting and SAS application development, so together we can meet your solution, domain, industry, regional and experience needs. To find a SAS partner, search our directory.
• Services. SAS Consulting is committed to helping you make the most of your technology investments, and we offer proven services that span all phases of a successful technology deployment.

SAS is committed to helping your business grow and succeed. Our analytics platform is fully integrated across all solutions and designed to grow along with you – from the desktop, to the enterprise, to the IoT and beyond. Competing against your larger industry rivals based on your natural agility and innovation can still require a competitive edge, the kind provided by analytics and data-driven insights and operations.

• Benefit from nearly four decades of analytics experience. SAS was once a small business, too. And today we're the recognized leader in advanced analytics, used by companies around the world to enhance customer relationships, manage scarce resources, and exploit scientific and business data to gain new insights and discover hidden opportunities. And we can help you do the same.
• Rely on our industry expertise. Our portfolio of industry solutions marries our advanced analytics with the business issues and work environment specific to each industry. That translates into better, faster decisions from your data, wherever and whenever you want.
• Take advantage of expert services and a faster time to value. The payback from analytics can be compelling, especially when you use our implementation services to get up and running quickly, and within budget. We also offer training so you can quickly reap the rewards from your SAS investments.
  

• SAS^® Cloud Analytics
  Easily and cost-effectively gain valuable business insight through on-demand access to SAS technology.
  
• SAS^® Episode Analytics
  Understand episodes of care in order to treat patients holistically and build value into the care continuum.
• SAS^® Life Science Analytics Framework
  Efficiently manage the transformation, analysis and reporting of clinical trials data.
• SAS^® OnDemand: Suspect Claims Detection
  Identify suspicious claims and service providers by analyzing service claims data.
• SAS^® Visual Analytics for SAS^® Cloud (PDF)
  Visually explore all data, discover new patterns and publish reports to the web and mobile devices.
  

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