CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL RATES GROUP SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS APRIL 29, 2016 JENNIFER WHALEY, SR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL RATES GROUP SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS APRIL 29, 2016 JENNIFER WHALEY, SR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

WHO IS SAS?

UTILITIES SAS STRENGTH IN THE INDUSTRY 500 energy customers worldwide 100% of Fortune500 US Utilities are SAS customers 1976 SAS founded and 2 utilities among initial customers

proc catmod order=data; weight wt; response / out=preds; model severity=trt hospital; run; quit; What is your perception of SAS? Then SAS Only for Programmers Now SAS is for Business! (and Programmers :) /* Keep just the predicted values, predictors, and response */ data pred2; set preds; if _type_='prob'; keep severity trt hospital _pred_; run; /* Find predicted response level (level with highest predicted probability) in each sample. */ proc summary data=pred2 nway; class trt hospital; var _pred_; output out=predlvl (drop=_type freq_) maxid(_pred_(severity))=predlvl; run; /* Transpose the predicted values so that there is one observation per sample containing predicted values for each response level. */ proc transpose data=pred2 out=pred3 (drop=_name_); by trt hospital; id severity; var _pred_; run;

SAS UTILITIES ANALYTIC AREAS OF FOCUS Energy Forecasting Renewables Forecasting Portfolio Optimization Trade Risk Management SAS Energy Forecasting SAS BookRunner SAS Visual Analytics D A T A M A N A G E M E N T Behavioral Analytics Social & Sentiment Analytics Channel Optimization Program / Product Design SAS Customer Intelligence SAS PMW for SAP HANA SAS Visual Analytics The Connected Utility Revenue Assurance Billing and Usage Analytics Work Order and Resource Optimization Energy Theft Detection Cybersecurity SAS Security Intelligence SAS Visual Analytics D A T A M A N A G E M E N T Reliability Management Cost Performance Analytics Fleet and Asset Performance Predictive Maintenance SAS Asset Performance Analytics SAS Event Stream Processing SAS Visual Analytics ENABLEMENT: IN-DATABASE HADOOP HANA GRID ESP IN-MEMORY CLOUD

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS

APPROACHABLE ANALYTICS WHAT SAS PROVIDES - OVERVIEW Scalable to all your data Approachable Analytics with SAS Interactive and Visual Reporting Analytical Data Exploration Analytical Modeling

APPROACHABLE ANALYTICS WHAT MAKES IT APPROACHABLE Modern, interactive, easy-to-use data manipulation, reporting, exploration and modeling Communication of results via Web, Office & Mobile Deployment on-premise or in the cloud

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS BUSINESS VISUALIZATION DRIVEN BY ANALYTICS ENTERPRISE/DEPARTMENTAL AND SELF SERVICE VISUALIZATION POWERED BY SAS ANALYTICS REPORTING, MOBILE COLLABORATION Scalable with any size data In-memory analytics Many deployment options BI/Reporting -to- analytics Analytics for everyone Create once, schedule, distribute Native mobile BI apps Integration with MS Office and SharePoint apps

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS DELIVERS A SINGLE SOLUTION FOR FASTER, SMARTER DECISIONS Central Entry Point Integration Role-based Views DATA BUILDER ADMINISTRATOR EXPLORER DESIGNER Join data from multiple sources Create calculated and derived columns Load data Monitor SAS LASR Analytic server Load/unload data Manage security Perform ad-hoc analysis and data discovery Apply advanced analytics Create dashboard style reports for web or mobile MOBILE BI Native ios and Android applications that deliver interactive reports SAS LASR ANALYTIC SERVER

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS MEETING YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS THROUGH FLEXIBILITY SSOD SAS In-Memory Analytics Traditional on premise Deployments Public Private SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Cloud

COLLABORATION AND INFORMATION SHARING MOBILE BI COLLABORATION APPLICATIONS DESKTOP APPLICATIONS WEB VISUALIZATIONS REPORTS DASHBOARDS COMMENTS INSIGHTS

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS Self-service Data Preparation SAS Visual Analytics Interactive Reporting & Dashboards Data Exploration Approachable Analytics

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS Import and join data from variety of sources Self-Service Data Preparation Create column expressions and filter data Manage, run and schedule data queries Pivot rows into new columns Load tables, append tables & rows in-memory

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS On-the-fly hierarchies for drill-down Interactive Reporting & Dashboards Tile & precision layouts for flexible design Predefined filters, groupings, formatting Add variety of charts & action elements Range or threshold alerts; Dashboards

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS Autocharting chooses the best suitable graph Data Exploration What does it mean? for predictive relationships Interactive visuals to tell a compelling story Hierarchies, aggregations, dynamic filtering Add comments, share & collaborate

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS Descriptive analytics, incl. correlations Approachable Analytics Forecasting and Scenario Analysis Text Analysis, including sentiment Decision Trees for classification Path Analysis

APPROACHABLE ANALYTICS Influence EXPLORATION AND MODELING WHAT DOES IT BRING? Relationships Increased understanding Eliminating guesswork with predictive analytics Contributions Data driven exploration

APPROACHABLE ANALYTICS ANALYTICS CONTINUUM Dashboarding & Reporting Predictive Analytics Exploration, Visualization & Descriptive Statistics

DEMO OF SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS EXAMPLE FOR RATES

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS KEY RESOURCES External Web Page Try Before You Buy (Free) Industry specific demos and reports SAS VA Documentation SAS VA How-Do-I Video Tutorials SAS VA Community

SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS FOR UTILITIES YouTube Video for Utilities Sample Reports for Utilities Download the SAS Mobile BI app for phone or tablet from itunes App Store for ios Google Play for Android

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