It Starts With the
Right Analytics Platform
Achieve excellence in analytics with a platform that's open, inclusive and dependable.
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What is an analytics platform?
An analytics platform is a software foundation that's engineered to generate insights from your data in any computing environment. Built on a strategy of using analytical insights to drive business actions, this platform supports every phase of the analytics life cycle – from data, to discovery, to deployment.
Hallmarks of the Right Analytics Platform
Open
- Adapts to the full spectrum of challenges you face with analytics and data.
- Embraces all major coding languages, methods and application standards for analytics.
- Provides an extensive suite of proven methods for handling analytical problems of any size and complexity.
- Scales from small to big data, in motion and at rest, at the edge and in the cloud.
- Deploys seamlessly to any operational technology or application environment.
Inclusive
- Is accessible to anyone wanting to derive insights from data, regardless of skill or experience.
- Provides a rich set of interfaces that cater to all users and information consumers.
- For technical audiences – embraces programming and scripting from an array of coding languages. For business analysts and nontechnical users – provides interactive visual and cognitive interfaces.
- Includes built-in workflows for domain experts.
- Is easily transferable across both physical and virtual hardware environments, gleaning the most value from all available assets and protecting future investments.
Dependable
- Delivers processing power that's optimized for analytics workloads, and withstands failover.
- Takes advantage of multithreaded, distributed computing environments, based on a common, governed code base.
- Provides a traceable results path from project initiation to deployment, visible to any audit.
- Protects data assets with management control over system and data access, and support for encryption and secure network connections.
- Verifies the accuracy and validity of analytical results, evidenced by a rigorous testing framework and proven domain practices.
Who benefits from an analytics platform?
Business Management
- Operate from trusted results that are vetted and consistent.
- Meet changing business demands with a strategic investment that addresses any analytical challenge.
- Foster an environment of innovation and value with analytics designed for easy deployment.
IT Management
- Confidently manage your analytics assets – and quickly incorporate new data sources, systems and environments – using a preconfigured suite of tools.
- Centralize control to easily extend, monitor and refine analytics applications for rapid distribution.
- Adopt a new infrastructure and business processes with transportable analytics assets that work alongside well-established practices and existing skill sets.
Why choose the SAS analytics platform?
Proven reliability, flexibility and adaptability. The trusted choice of leading organizations around the world for delivering results that make a difference. The industry-recognized leader in advanced analytics. Innovation driven by customer needs. Continuous enhancements to our analytics platform derived from 40-plus years of analytics experience. Market-leading analytical methods designed for superior performance that delivers functional value.
SAS is named sole Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Insight Platform Suites, Q4 2016