SAS® Intelligence Storage
As increasing numbers of business users seek their own answers and insights, the strain on traditional data storage systems becomes problematic for everyone. Business users have difficulty getting the data they need in a timely manner and IT organizations struggle with resources and security issues.
SAS Intelligence Storage provides flexible options to support business intelligence and analytics applications and is designed from the outset to deliver fast extraction, transformation and loading times irrespective of the amount of data held within an organization.
As a key component of the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform, SAS Intelligence Storage ensures that business intelligence and analytics can be obtained quickly by serving the data through a platform designed for rapid retrieval and reporting without sacrificing manageability and operational integrity. This contributes to increased efficiency and helps organizations drive revenues while reducing risk.
Key Benefits
- Storage that is optimized for analytical processing means higher performance for faster answers.
- Reduced tuning, maintenance and capacity result in lower cost of ownership.
- A centralized, high-efficiency analytical repository built with enterprisewide scalability and flexibility.
- Integration with SAS Data Integration Server platform for comprehensive data loading.
Key Features
- Scalable, multithreaded, multi-I/O relational storage is designed for intensive use by SAS solutions and analytics to achieve high level of flexibility required during model development processes.
- "Reduced overhead" client-server database management system offers secure, high-performance data storage for large, multi-user communities using multiple business intelligence and analytic applications. Provide fast access to small subsets of very large tables.
- A multithreaded, scalable and open multidimensional database quickly delivers summarized data to business intelligence applications in a format that allows for "on-the-fly" processing and reporting. It is especially designed to support OLAP processing where the application profile requires fast access to summarized information, aggregated along relevant business aspects.
- A technology suite enables interoperability between SAS and a wide range of third-party components through the use of open standards.
For more information, refer to the SAS Intelligence Storage brochure. 
E-mail this page 
Print this Page 
Digg this 
Save to del.icio.us 
RSS feed