SAS provides a comprehensive applications development environment that enables you
to quickly create customized applications to fit any user need with minimal costs.
Create applications that empower users with easy-to-use analysis and reporting applications,
whether they work from desktop Web browsers or handheld
devices.
Integrate new and modified applications into existing environments so you don't
lose the value of previous technology investments.
Simplify and speed up applications development with reusable components, automated
code generation,
and an easy- to- use visual development environment.
Take advantage of multiple data sources and platforms to maximize all of your computing
resources.
Use our integrated, stand-alone environment to create Java-based applications on
the client or the server, flexible HTML application that use
a SAS Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Active Server page (ASP) applications,
and traditional full- client applications.
SAS AppDev Studio provides a full suite
of application development software for building and testing power-client and Web-client
applications without connecting to remote servers, tying up production resources,
or moving files back and forth across networks. This means you can develop applications
even from your laptop.Components include
webAF -- a visual Java development
environment that enables you to build applications, applets, servlets and classes
using a drag-and-drop, object-oriented interface that minimizes the need for programming.
Easy-to-use wizards and drag-and-drop interfaces help you build Java applications
that are lightweight, easy to manage and instantly connect to SAS on the server.
Ready-to-use InformationBeans provide transparent access to other SAS components.
JDBC and IOM support is included as well as special iPage components that support
the development of wireless applications.
webEIS -- a development environment
especially tailored for building Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications
for the Web. It enables you to create interactive documents quickly and easily,
and publish those documents on the Web as either Java applets or JavaServer pages
without writing a single line of code. Support for Java2 and JFC/Swing technologies
is also included.
SAS/IntrNet Software
-- provides both Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Java technologies for running
ad hoc reports and dynamic applications via the Web, enabling developers to cost-effectively
deliver the power of SAS to everyone's desktop. SAS/IntrNet includes prepackaged
applications for accessing multidimensional database cubes and reporting on the
contents of SAS catalogs and libraries. Design-time controls enable you to use your
favorite HTML editor to develop Web pages that talk to SAS, essentially creating
Web-enabled analytical applications without any knowledge of SAS or HTML.
SAS Integration Technologies -- an
IT platform founded on industry standard technologies extends the power of SAS computational
and data servers to other enterprise applications. It also provides proactive delivery
of enterprise intelligence. This product offers publish-and-subscribe functionality,
support for middleware messaging technologies and seamless integration to your enterprise
through industry standards such as COM, CORBA and LDAP. With the publishing framework,
you can archive packages to remote file systems, publish information to an address
list via e-mail, and deliver e-mail content in HTML format.
SAS/CONNECT and SAS/SHARE Software
-- provide additional ways to distribute the results generated by SAS compute and
data services. SAS/CONNECT pioneered the ability of SAS to use large-scale server
power to deliver information across computing platforms. It continues to deliver
enhanced capabilities that enable you to take advantage of the ever-increasing processing
power that is available by distributing any or all portions of application processing
to multiple processors. This provides a good option if the amount of data to be
processed is too large for PCs to handle. SAS/SHARE is a data server that allows
multiple users to gain simultaneous access to SAS files. It is ideal for applications
that require constant data updates and are accessed by many different users. This
enables you to deliver client/server applications while protecting data integrity
and reducing redundancy. A JDBC driver enables you to concurrently access data in
distributed environments from Java applications.
SAS AppDev Studio also includes three components that comprise the SAS server applications
development environment.
Base SAS includes
a powerful fourth-generation programming language called the DATA step and ready-to-use
programs called procedures. Base SAS is designed and optimized to handle large-scale
data manipulation, information storage and retrieval, statistical analysis and report
writing. Base SAS applications can be easily integrated with other frameworks using
SAS Integration Technologies, or the results can be made available in a Web browser
via SAS/IntrNet or webAF.
SAS/AF provides an object-oriented
application development facility used to create custom, interactive, extensible
graphical user interfaces. A rich set of ready-to-use visual and non-visual components
are available for developing portable applications that take advantage of SAS processing
power.
SAS/EIS is an object-oriented, syntax-free
development toolkit for creating running and maintaining enterprise information
systems (EIS). An EIS is an integrated series of applications that enables business
users to easily view critical information through custom graphs and reports (non-Web-based).