SAS 9.4 Intelligence Platform : Overview, Second Edition

Provides a point of entry for understanding the basics of the SAS Intelligence Platform. It discusses the benefits of the SAS Intelligence Platform to businesses, describes the architecture, and provides an overview of each software component. This document can be used alone or as an introduction to the deployment and administration guides.

The SAS Intelligence Platform is a comprehensive, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, managing, and distributing enterprise intelligence. It includes tools and interfaces that enable you to do the following:

• extract data from a variety of operational data sources on multiple platforms, and build a data warehouse and data marts that integrate the extracted data
• store large volumes of data efficiently and in a variety of formats
• give business users at all levels the ability to explore data from the warehouse in a web browser, perform simple query and reporting functions, and view up-to-date results of complex analyses
• use high-end analytic techniques to provide capabilities such as predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting, optimization, simulation, and experimental design
• centrally control the accuracy and consistency of enterprise data

With the SAS Intelligence Platform, you can implement an end-to-end intelligence infrastructure using software that is delivered, tested, and integrated by SAS. Using the tools provided in the SAS Intelligence Platform, you can create applications that reflect your unique business requirements and domain knowledge.

Building on the technologies in the SAS Intelligence Platform, SAS offers solutions for industries such as financial services, life sciences, health care, retail, and manufacturing, as well as line-of-business solutions in areas such as customer management, enterprise risk management, and financial management. The solutions incorporate predictive analytics, industry and domain expertise, and specialized data structures.