SAS^® Enterprise Data Integration Server

What does SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server do? SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server, featuring DataFlux technology, is a powerful, configurable and comprehensive solution that can access virtually all data sources; extract, cleanse, transform, conform, aggregate, load and manage data; support data warehousing, migration, synchronization and federation initiatives; support both batch-oriented and real-time Master Data Management solutions; and create real-time data integration services in support of service-oriented architectures.

Why is SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server important? SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server enables organizations to manage data integration projects on an enterprise scale in a timely, cost-effective manner and meet the high data quality expectations of information consumers.

For whom is SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server designed? It is designed for organizations in all industry sectors that are implementing one or more data integration projects, dealing with changing business landscapes and business-driven IT initiatives, trying to meet regulatory requirements, or implementing data governance.

Key Benefits

Leverage/reuse work by others. A common repository enables the centralized storage, management and reuse of work based on user authorizations, reducing both development and maintenance time.
Improve productivity. A GUI environment that is easy to use provides a standard interface for building and documenting work. Collaboration is encouraged and manual coding, though available when needed, is minimized. New team members can get up to speed quickly on work done by others, which is important when documentation is inadequate or missing.
Always access the data you need. From older legacy systems to the latest ERP applications, data from virtually any hardware platform or operating system can be accessed and processed. New source systems can easily be added and security managed centrally. This saves time, shortens learning curves and gives decision makers the information they need.
Manage security and administration at all levels. Reusable templates make it quick and easy to provide role-based authorizations and administrative privileges at the user, department or enterprise level.
Meet time constraints even within decreasing windows of availability. SAS processes data fast! Organizations can take advantage of the grid-enabled load-balanced, multithreaded parallel processing architecture that can quickly process, transform and move data between different platforms and systems.
Deliver consistent, trusted and verifiable information. Consistently getting correct data when and where it is needed provides increased confidence in the accuracy and timeliness of operational and business information. Data quality auditing tools monitor the quality of data in processes and source systems. Users can see where data originated and how it was transformed. Optional enrichment components can add value and ensure the best possible data.
Eliminate overlapping, redundant tools and systems with one solution. SAS offers the only comprehensive enterprise data integration solution that is built from the ground up to meet the full spectrum of data integration needs. It eliminates the piecemeal approach of linking and managing technologies from different vendors and provides lower overall cost, reduced risk and faster results.

Key Features

An interactive data integration development environment provides developers with an easy-to-use, point-and-click GUI that uses an intuitive set of configurable windows for managing multiple data integration development processes.
Enterprise connectivity to virtually all data sources and types, operating systems and hardware environments gives you the ability to get data from, or put data to, almost anywhere.
Integrated, customizable data quality routines accelerate data cleansing by analyzing and eliminating duplicate and inaccurate data as it is drawn through the data integration processes.
Superior ETL functionality and a point-and-click design enable developers to easily build process workflows, read and reuse metadata from data stores and create business rules and transformations in metadata, enabling the rapid generation of reusable data integration services.
Shared metadata provides a consistent definition across data sources to speed integration projects, simplify design and reduce maintenance costs.
Migration and synchronization capabilities enable you to migrate, synchronize and replicate data across different operational systems and data sources. Powerful data transformations are available for altering, reformatting and consolidating information during these processes.
Data federation capabilities enable you to query and use data across multiple systems without the physical reconciliation or movement of source data.
Built-in wizards make it easy to create your own data integration services that can be called in real time, near real time and batch modes.

For more information, refer to the SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server fact sheet.

SASŽ Enterprise BI Server

All organizations have data. And, everyone wants to use that data to create insights and intelligence to make good decisions. How can everyone access the data they need, quickly derive the intelligence they seek and not create their own unique version of the truth?

SAS Enterprise BI Server includes both a suite of powerful business intelligence tools and a complete, integrated business intelligence architecture to provide fast, simple access to consistent data for a more accurate picture of your business. This holistic view of customers, suppliers, partners and more will allow you to make better decisions and gain competitive advantages.

Key Benefits

Better, faster decisions for everyone with self-service reporting and quick integration.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership with a complete BI architecture and simplified deployment.
Increased consistency and streamlined administration through data access, analysis and reporting in a single system.
Minimized risk and optimized performance through powerful query and reporting and unmatched analytics.

Key Features

Targeted, fit-to-task Web and desktop reporting interfaces 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.
Multiple self-service query interfaces are provided, enabling information producers to access and query data on their own without having to learn new skills.
OLAP data storage and a Web-based data exploration interface are combined so end users can quickly and interactively look at summaries of large volumes of data from multiple angles.
An extensive suite of graphic data presentation options enable users to see relationships that are not easily detected in tabular formats.
Out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft Office provides non-technical users with seamless access to SAS business intelligence and analytics from within their Microsoft Office applications.
A dynamic desktop interface for guided analysis and model development gives business analysts, statisticians and programmers the ability to leverage SAS analytics and efficient processing across all enterprise platforms.
The comprehensive applications development environment enables your IT staff to 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.
An open, integrated metadata foundation means metadata can be shared across the enterprise from a centralized repository. This ensures that your business intelligence is consistent, accurate and a strategic asset.
A centralized management framework lets you manage the technology underpinnings of your enterprise, including servers, applications, security, libraries and metadata, across multiple platforms.