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Picture it:  9:00 AM.   Big office.  Lots of people.   Lots of questions.

Lots and lots and lots of data.   But no real insights.

Along comes a new software solution.   Easy-to-use interface.   The world’s best analytics.   Served up in a way that lets lots of people get lots of answers from big data.    They see patterns.  They spot trends.  They seize opportunities.  Insights at the speed of sight.

So many “AHA’s” ring out—all at the same time—that it sounds like laughter.  But it’s not.  It’s serious business.  It’s a sound drowned out only by the collective sigh of relief from executives:   maybe, just maybe, all that investment in big data is finally paying off in a big way.

And the way it was, and the way it is, suddenly becomes the way of the future.  Right now!

The Big News: SAS^® Visual Analytics

Truth really is stranger than fiction.  And, the truth is, what I reported above isn’t make-believe.  It is not just “what if.”  It’s what SAS offers in a  new software solution that delivers analytical insights—from huge amounts of data—through engaging, visual exploratory analysis.

SAS Visual Analytics is designed for anyone in your business that needs answers from big data. With easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interfaces, SAS has incorporated helpful and meaningful explanations of powerful analytic functions, correlations and linear regressions.  In other words, ordinary people can leverage extraordinary analytics—and see the results in a visual way that reveals the truth in time to take action.

Those insights can be quickly distributed via the web, Adobe PDF files, and iPads…enabling information sharing and deeper analysis among a wide range of information consumers.

Why don’t I just show you?

The Bigger News: SAS^® High-Performance Analytics

SAS Visual Analytics leverages SAS’ high-performance analytics technologies…a major initiative from SAS that enables our customers to:

• Gain competitive advantage and create value by reducing the time it takes to make decisions.
• Create high impact and change the way business gets done.
• Get accurate and predictable results for hard-to-solve problems, and manage unknown risks.
• Make optimal use of IT resources: infrastructure, people and money.

SAS’ revolutionary in-memory server, SAS LASR Analytic Server, is at the center of these high-performance capabilities. It allows complex analytic computations to be performed on billions (with a B) of rows of data at incredible speed.

Learn more about SAS High-Performance Analytics from our CEO Jim Goodnight.

The Best News:  These are SAS analytics

SAS is the leader in all things analytics.  We were the first, and after 36 years remain the foremost, provider of advanced analytics software. So it’s only natural that we’re leading the way in high-performance analytics.

We continue to solve some of the most complex business issues in the world.  Now, with high-performance analytics, we can turn big data into big opportunities for your business…at breakneck speed.