Past, Present & Future: SAS Evolving Enterprise Platform

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1 Past, Present & Future: SAS Evolving Enterprise Platform Jim Metcalf, SAS Research and Development November, 2007 Copyright 2007 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

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6 Software Visionaries In Their Pre-mogul Formative Years

7 Early SAS History Jim Barr Jim Goodnight John Sall Jane Helwig 1966 SAS structure and language conceived by Jim Barr 1968 Barr & Goodnight integrate multiple regression and ANOVA into SAS 1971 SAS use at universities begins SAS 72 is delivered to market John Sall joins, adding econometrics, time series, and matrix algebra 1976 SAS Institute is incorporated by Jim, Jim, John and Jane. Students ponder the meaning of JCL.

8 Starting out Strong: SAS on the IBM mainframe

9 A fetching and unforgettable color palette SAS 6.09 Usability Experience circa circa 1990

10 SAS has evolved considerably since however.. 10

11 SAS Today 35 years after SAS million users worldwide 43,000 customer sites 111 countries 400 offices in 51 countries 10,244 employees 2006 revenue $1.9 billion 24% of revenue invested in R&D Still privately held

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13 Base SAS & The SAS Language Still Relevant, Still Elegant, Still Stunningly Awesome! Most-powerful 4 th Generation Language in the world 41 years of development and investment Extract, manipulate, analyze, format, report using 9009 functions and 300 procedures Platform agnostic 35 hosts SAS programs represent business, statistical and analytic processes ses and are a valuable tangible asset containing expert knowledge

14 Systems Integrator Phone HR, Telco, Banking, etc Domain Specific Report Collaboration Business Analyst Implementor Query Designer Report Designer Report Consumer SAS Programmers Report Consumer

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16 Paradigm Shifter! Tim Berners-Lee MOSAIC Marc Andreesen $192 Billion Market Cap

17 SAS Audience Before Large% Small% Information Consumers Domain Experts Power User Business Analyst Info Tech Web Report Viewing Information Delivery Framework Web Reporting Power Reporting Analytic Reporting 17

18 SAS Audience potential exploded Large% Small% Information Consumers Domain Experts Power User Business Analyst Info Tech Web Report Viewing Information Delivery Framework Web Reporting Power Reporting Analytic Reporting

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20 $1 billion & 5000 man-years to manufacture

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22 Outlook PowerPoint Word Excel SAS Enterprise Guide SAS Web Report Studio SAS Add In for Microsoft Office SAS 9 delivers a variety of targeted user interfaces SAS Information Delivery Portal SAS BI Dashboard SAS Data Integration Studio SAS Management Console SAS Information Map Studio SAS OLAP Cube Studio

23 Outlook PowerPoint Word Excel SAS Enterprise Guide SAS Web Report Studio SAS Add In for Microsoft Office SAS 9 BI: one common infrastructure Business Metadata Shared Metadata Shared Data SAS Information Delivery Portal SAS BI Dashboard SAS Data Integration Studio SAS Management Console SAS Information Map Studio SAS OLAP Cube Studio

24 Outlook PowerPoint Word Excel SAS Enterprise Guide SAS Web Report Studio SAS Add In for Microsoft Office SAS Stored Process Server Happily Serving SAS Programs to all Callers SAS Information Delivery Portal SAS BI Dashboard SAS Data Integration Studio SAS Management Console SAS Information Map Studio SAS OLAP Cube Studio

25 Outlook PowerPoint Word Excel SAS Enterprise Guide SAS Web Report Studio SAS Add In for Microsoft Office SAS Stored Process Server Happily Serving SAS Programs to all Callers SAS Information Delivery Portal SAS BI Dashboard SAS Data Integration Studio SAS Management Console SAS Information Map Studio SAS OLAP Cube Studio

26 SAS BI Dashboard Brand New! Runs in SAS Portal Get data from anywhere Link to anywhere Rich variety of indicators Soon to be JSR168 compatible

27 SAS BI Dashboard just a few of the available indicators

28 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07 SAS has the most comprehensive BI Offerings in the industry. No other vendor in the Magic Quadrant can match SAS s s advanced analysis capabilites which only become more important to the BI Stack over time -Gartner BI Magic Quadrant Report

29 Bloor Research: InComparison Report, Q4 2006! "# $%&''(

30 AMR Research SAS9 s s Intelligence platform, which underpins all its analytic applications, was designed to meet the needs of the full spectrum of reporting and analysis users from a single, integrated environment. SAS engineers concentrated heavily on creating a simplified user interface,, and it shows. The architecture was designed for scalability and integration. Source: AMR Research, Customer Service, Reputation Aid SAS's Entry Into the BI and Financial Intelligence Sectors, Jacqueline Coolidge, John Hagerty, October 28, 2004

31 Cindi Howson Biscorecard.com Given that SAS Enterprise BI Server is the company s s first foray into mainstream business intelligence, I was impressed by both the power and ease of use. Yes, ease of use! SAS has done well to analyze the needs of different user types and focus on the distinct needs of casual users and business analysts. Cindi Howson - President of ASK, TDWI instructor for Evaluating BI Toolsets and author of BIScorecard.com for independent BI research - March 2005