SAS Unveils SAS Decision Manager for Big Data

Big data is gaining prominence in a big way these days. Companies are realizing that if they can make sense out of big data, they stand to get several advantages.

With big data come equally big decisions for businesses. Helping companies make informed and easy decisions with their big data, SAS (News - Alert) has introduced SAS Decision Manager, which helps users make sense of big data.

SAS Decision Manager helps users in many ways. They can apply analytics to strategic decisions or perform day-to-day operations that are connected with big data. It also automates various systems of decision making, speeding up efficiency and reducing the costs associated with processing big data.

With the help of SAS Decision Manager, a user can feed the same data into numerous related data models. This facility, coupled with automation, decreases the decision making process from months to hours. Also, SAS Decision Manager brings together business rules, predictive analytic models and optimization and offers a common decision-making environment.

SAS Decision Manager has an intuitive interface and merges easily into a company's current operational processes.

“The use of business rules as a foundation for decision management systems promotes agility by ensuring that business rules are transparent, easy to change and owned by the business,” said James Taylor, CEO and principal consultant for Decision Management Solutions. “In this era of big data, organizations look for analytic insights to improve performance. They need an integrated decision life cycle supported by a common platform that drives collaboration among business, IT and analytics teams. SAS Decision Manager supports these requirements in a single integrated platform.”

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