The document discusses SAS Business Analytics Framework, which provides a range of analytics capabilities from descriptive to predictive. It outlines eight levels of analytics from basic reporting to predictive modeling. It then describes the framework's components including data management, reporting, analytics, and business solutions. Finally, it summarizes SAS differentiators such as its agile and collaborative framework, unmatched analytics, integrated capabilities, and industry-specific solutions.

1. SAS® Business Analytics
Framework
Hendrayana Kartiman
October 2011
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Eight Levels of Analytics
A range of capabilities
What’s the best that can happen?
What will happen next?
What if these trends continue?
Why is this happening?
What actions are needed?
Where exactly is the problem?
How many, how often, where?
What happened?
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2. SAS® Business Analytics Framework
Reporting
Analytics
Data Management
Business Solutions
Existing data Modeling results
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City …. Segmt
Segmt Value Attrition
Attrition
Attrition X-Sell-A
X-Sell-A
Sell- P-Risk
10101 Sandra
Sandra JKT
JKT …. A H 0.12 0.86 0.10
10103 Amir
Amir BDG
BDG …. C L 0.32 0.24 0.65
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Business Analytics Environment
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10124 Targus
Targus SBY
SBY …. B M 0.84 0.63 0.27
Operational Environment
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SAS® Business Analytics Framework
Business Solutions
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3. SAS/BAF and its Sub-Components Enterprise Guide
Add-
Add-in to MSOffice
OLAP
Portal & Web Report Studio
BI Dashboard
Statistics & Econometrics
Enterprise Miner
Forecasting
Operational Research
Text Analytics
Data Quality
Data Integration
In-Database
In-
Master Data Management
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SAS® Business Analytics Framework
Summary - SAS Differentiators
Agile Framework.
The SAS® Business Analytics Framework is an agile framework that
grows over time to support performance objectives and changing
market dynamics.
Collaborative data management.
Improve data integrity at the source by embedding automated quality
processes that consolidate, cleanse and standardize your data
Unmatched Analytics.
Support the entire analysis process – from data access to the point of
decision – however varied or complex.
Reporting in more places.
Make users more self sufficient with simpler, role-based interfaces.
Industry / line-of-business solutions.
Packaged applications - tightly coupled with industry domain expertise,
and data structures (models) tuned to the specific business processes
used in each industry or line-of-business.
Integrated capabilities with common metadata.
Data management, analytics, and reporting are achieved through a
robust environment that can be shared across departments, without the
cost and complexity of cobbling together a multi-vendor solution.
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