SAS® Enterprise BI Server
A fast, flexible business intelligence solution
SAS® Enterprise BI Server is a comprehensive, easy-to-use business intelligence software solution that integrates the power of SAS analytics and data integration to share insights that power better business decisions. It includes role-based, self-service interfaces for all types of users within a well-defined IT governance framework and a centralized point of administration. This helps organizations simplify and speed business intelligence deployment.
Benefits
- Provides the information needed to drive faster, better decisions.
- Increases data consistency, enables driven decisions,streamlines administration.
- Minimizes risk and optimizes performance.
- Lowers Total Cost of Ownership with a solution that meets everyone’s needs.
Features
“With SAS, our business users are able to gain more value from the data, leading to better decisions and, ultimately, better marketing ROI.”
—Jay Dittmann
Vice President of Marketing Strategy
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
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With SAS Enterprise BI Server, users can go from data to dashboards in just seconds.
How SAS® is Different
- SAS offers a fast, simple and complete BI solution that adds an easy-to-use presentation layer to the world’s best analytics, enabling fact-based decisions across the enterprise. Other vendors provide business intelligence in the form of historical reports that provide only limited insight.
- SAS BI gives users at all different skill levels immediate access to cleansed and reliable data through targeted user interfaces that make use of centralized metadata.
- All SAS software is built on a comprehensive, unified platform designed to work together so you can eliminate the need for constant, ongoing integration of technologies.
Benefits
- Provides the information needed to drive faster, better decisions. By integrating data from across the enterprise and delivering self-service reporting and analysis, IT spends less time responding to users’ requests and business users spend less time looking for information, so more time is spend on making faster, better decisions.
- Increases data consistency, enables driven decisions,streamlines administration. Through centrally managed data, shared metadata and security, SAS Enterprise BI Server delivers consistent representation and control of information by providing reliable results that can be easily traced back to the source. This alleviates the repetitive task of validating which reports or results are correct. In addition, integration with Microsoft Office allows IT to retake control of ad hoc Excel use without impeding users’ desire for this familiar environment.
- Minimizes risk and optimizes performance. IT managers deploying SAS Enterprise BI Server can leverage previous investments and integrate BI quickly into the existing environment. Powerful query and reporting interfaces and unmatched analytics deliver the information and foresights needed to drive the business forward as quickly as possible.
- Lowers Total Cost of Ownership with a solution that meets everyone’s needs. SAS Enterprise BI Server ensures that IT has the breadth of BI capabilities to meet the needs of every type of user: managers looking for dashboards; groups that want to view or build reports on the Web; analysts or power users who need advanced data exploration; and IT staff who need to deploy, manage, control and maintain the entire solution.
Features
- Web and desktop reporting
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- A wide variety of targeted, fit-to-task interfaces for report building, viewing and distribution open the world of SAS intelligence to all types of users with varying needs and skills, speeding better decision making while relieving the burden on IT.
- Portal and customizable dashboards
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- Business users can access aggregated information via an easy-to-use, role-based Web portal. It includes point-and-click dashboard development, enabling users to create and customize their own dashboards in just minutes from virtually any data source.
- Microsoft Office integration
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- Business users have seamless access to SAS business intelligence and analytics from within their Microsoft Office applications, making it simple for them to access data, perform queries and analysis, and create reports. They can use familiar Microsoft Office functionality to distribute results to decision makers.
- Query and analysis
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- Information producers can easily access and query data on their own without having to learn new skills or make constant demands on IT for data and reports.
- Interactive business visualization
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- Interactive visualization capabilities enable information producers to dynamically explore data, investigate patterns and uncover hidden facts. An extensive suite of customizable graphic presentation options present information and insights to information consumers that are not easily detected in tabular formats.
- OLAP storage and data exploration interface
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- A powerful, multidimensional database is designed to handle large volumes of business intelligence data, and a specialized interface makes it easy to build and maintain OLAP data storage cubes. Business users can use their Web browsers to quickly and interactively look at summaries of large volumes of data from multiple angles.
- Integrated analytics
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- Business users now have access to sophisticated analyses directly from their BI interface of choice whether it is a Web-based reporting interface, a portal or Microsoft Office, without having to constantly seek assistance from IT staff or analysts. Analytics in a business context can be placed easily in the hands of all decision makers to drive accurate decisions and better results.
- Guided analysis
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- A dynamic Windows interface for guided analysis and model development enables business analysts, statisticians and programmers to leverage SAS analytics and efficient processing across all enterprise platforms.
- Metadata management
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- Easily map physical data structures to easilty-understood business terms empowering business users with self-sufficient access to consistent information. An open, central repository means metadata can be integrated, centrally managed and shared across the enterprise. This ensures that your business intelligence is a consistent, strategic asset.
- Centralized administration for IT
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- A single point of administration provides the technology underpinnings to manage your enterprise, including servers, applications, security, libraries and metadata, across multiple platforms.
- Applications development
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- IT staff can quickly and cost-effectively develop and customize intelligence applications that leverage the full power of SAS, using a variety of programming languages and platform choices.
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System Requirements
Client environment
All SAS Business Intelligence clients run in a Windows desktop environment
- Windows (x86-32): Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional
- Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6
Server environment
SAS Servers, including Base SAS and SAS Metadata Server, can be installed on one or more hardware systems in a multi-tier configuration:
- AIX: Release 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 on POWER
- HP-UX PA-RISC: Release 11i Version 1, 2 and 3
- HP-UX Itanium: Release 11i Version 1, 2 and 3
- Linux for Intel (x86-32): Red Hat Linux 8.0, RHAS 2.1, RHEL 3.0 and 4.0, SuSE SLES 8 and 9
- Linux for Itanium (64-bit): Red Hat RHEL 3.0
- Solaris on SPARC: Version 8, 9, 10
- Solaris on x64: Version 10
- Windows (x86-32): Windows NT 4 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003
- Windows (on Itanium): Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems
- z/OS: Version 1 and higher
Web tier
SAS includes a reference implementation of Apache Tomcat. Sites can optionally choose to license WebLogic or WebSphere directly from the vendor:
- BEA WebLogic (AIX, HP-UX Itanium, Solaris, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003).
- IBM WebSphere (AIX, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003).
- Tomcat (AIX, HP-UX Itanium, Solaris, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003).
Optional software
- ESRI ArcGIS 9.0 Server with Service Pack 2 is required for a GIS-enabled SAS Enterprise BI Server.
- Platform Suite for SAS from Platform Computing is available for SAS BI Server and SAS Enterprise BI Server.
- SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS AppDev Studio are optional components of SAS Enterprise BI Server.
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