SAS 9 provides an integrated, open and extensible Intelligence Platform that serves as the foundation for creating and delivering accurate, in-depth enterprise intelligence. No matter where your organization is on the path toward evolving its information capabilities, the SAS Intelligence Platform can adapt to your situation and drive evolution to the next level, while leveraging and extending the value of existing IT investments.

Thats because the SAS Intelligence Platform was developed to support an end-to-end framework for creating and sharing enterprise intelligence, which we call the SAS Intelligence Value Chain. No doubt your organization already has many elements of an intelligence value chain in place: data captured from business processes, data storage and manipulation capabilities, and various query and reporting tools, perhaps from multiple vendors. With the SAS Intelligence Platform, you can optimize and extend the value of these existing systems while setting the stage for new levels of business intelligence not previously possible.

The SAS Intelligence Platform includes the following flagship offerings:
SAS Enterprise ETL Server offers a platform-independent extraction, transformation and loading solution that includes a range of access engines, a multithreaded transformation engine, integrated metadata management, data cleansing and a graphical interface.

SAS Intelligence Storage provides a dedicated platform designed from the outset to efficiently disseminate information for business intelligence and analytic applications -- from SAS or third parties.

SAS Enterprise BI Server empowers users by giving them access to information in the format they need, when they need it. It provides appropriate interfaces for various user skill levels and needs, enabling users to generate their own answers while IT retains control over the quality and consistency of the data.

SAS Analytic Technologies deliver the industrys widest portfolio of analytics, algorithms, mathematical data manipulation and modeling capabilities. SAS takes the mystery out of these high-end statistical techniques by coupling them with a wide range of user interfaces and graphics.