Vendor: SAS Institute

Product: Enterprise Guide/Web Report Studio

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Product Review:
SAS Enterprise Guide release 9
last update: 04.2010

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SAS Institute is the largest independent vendor operating in the BI space, although it prefers to use the term 'business analytics'.  This reflects SAS' traditional strength in producing software for statistical analysis which goes right back to its inception in the 1970s.

Product Review
Based on our expert analyst opinion, this review offers a detailed product assessment. Beginning with a vendor overview, it goes on to describe aspects of SAS BI such as licensing, architecture, administration, front-ends and reporting. The conclusion section gives a general overview of the product's strengths and weaknesses, as well as product scores.

Our SAS BI product review focuses on two products:

1. Enterprise Guide - A Windows client application for creating and publishing SAS-based content
2. Web Report Studio - A Web based tool targeted at information consumers for creating simple self-service reports

Table of Contents
Product overview
Licensing
Architecture and administration
Security and distribution
Metadata
Information Maps
Front-ends
Web Report Studio
SAS Web OLAP Viewer for Java
SAS add-in for Microsoft Office
Standard reports
Dashboards
Charts
JMP
Analysis
Conclusions
Similar Products
Strengths
Weaknesses