SAS Institute has unveiled a new Windows client application with an
interface designed to allow companies to rapidly deploy business
intelligence analytics across the enterprise using existing
platforms and data sources.
Enterprise Guide 2.0 will provide a single point of access to SAS
capabilities, freeing business analysts from the need to do
programming. Instead, programmers, statisticians, and business
analysts can use the interface to access SAS analytics while
reducing the time spent previously coding or programming.
"You don't have to be a statistician to be able to understand some
of these results," said Eleanor Taylor, SAS manager of business
intelligence strategy for SAS. "Those results can be shared
throughout the enterprise to enrich decision making. In the past
business intelligence has been based on historical information
flowing one way. Some of the analytics can help empower you to
drive forward instead of always look at historical
performance."
New features in Enterprise Guide include additional guided tasks to
lead users quickly and easily through analyses and reporting and
role-based task display to decrease the complexity of the user
interface. In addition, integrated scheduling is designed to allow
users to refresh and disseminate reports automatically at regular
intervals to reduce the load on IT departments. The guide also
supports custom tasks and makes common requests repeatable using
SAS or other development environment such as Microsoft Visual Basic
or .net. Enterprise Guide 2.0 is available immediately.