Business Intelligence Architecture of SaS

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Business intelligence architecture of SaS
SaS business Intelligence is referred to as a Visual analytics that helps to reveal the
pressure n an IT enterprise with the help of self service access to an in depth knowledge extent.
In order to get sophisticated results it is necessary for any business enterprise to adopt the most
suitable BI platform to gain effective commercial success and competitive advantages (Stone and
Woodcock 2014). The components of SAS include data integration, intelligence storage,
Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics. Preparation of data, display of data these are the two
different activities delivered by SAS BI.
Information may be of relational database such as oracle, My SQL, Teradata etc.
Regardless of the storage location of data that is whether OLAP, information maps or in SAS
dataset are viewed as the toolset of Business Intelligence. In some cases users can also create
ETL process in SAS integration studio (Gallinucci, Golfarelli and Rizzi 2015.). OLAP cube
summarizes huge set of information to ensure that the users can easily review and fetch data
from the server storage. On the other hand the information map allows the users to join data,
rename variables etc.
After preparation of data according to the architecture details, it can be accessed through
different ways and those are as follows:
 SAS web report studio
 SAS Business Intelligence dashboard
 SAS information delivery portal