SAS Data Management Features

Provides a wide range of possible data connections, including cloud applications, on-premise databases, and big data distributions, among others

Allows businesses to easily connect to any data source

Offers API connections for cloud-based applications and data sources

Permits profiling of data sets for increased organization, both by users and machine learning

Indexes metadata descriptions for easier searching and enhanced insights

Tools to (re)structure data in a manner that enables quick and accurate insight extraction

Allows self-service joining of tables

Provides the ability to combine data sources into one data set

Allows users and administrators to easily clean data to maintain quality and integrity

Offers collaborative functionality for sharing queries and data sets

Ensures user access management, data lineage, and data encryption

Provides a wide range of possible integrations, including analytics, data integration, master data management, and data science tools

Allows businesses to easily integrate with analytics, data integration, master data management, and data science tools

Operationalizes data workflows to easily scale repeatable preparation needs

Tools to (re)structure data in a manner that allows extracting insights quickly and accurately

Analyzes data to find and recommend the highest value customer segmentations.

Tools to create and adjust workflows to ensure consistency.

Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way.

Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.

Provides guidelines or training related to sensitive data compliance requirements,

Allows administrators to set policies for security and data governance

Monitors data quality and send alerts based on violations or misuse

Curates collected data for big data analytics solutions to analyze, manipulate, and model

Facilitates the disseminating of collected big data throughout parallel computing clusters

Compile data from across all systems so that users can view relevant information easily.

Correctly identify inaccurate, incomplete, or duplicated data from a data source.

Utilize deletion, modification, appending, merging, or other methods to correct bad data.

Standardize data formatting for uniformity and easier data usage.

Clean data as it enters the data source to prevent mixing bad data with cleaned data.

Finds duplicates using the fuzzy logic technology or an advance search feature.

Provide follow-up information after data cleanings through a visual dashboard or reports.

Automatically run data identification, correction, and normalization on data sources.

Schedule automated audits to identify data anomalies over time based on set business rules.

Gives a view of the entire data quality management ecosystem.

Allows user role-based access and actions to authorization for specific tasks.

Lets users build a glossary of business terms, vocabulary and definitions across multiple tools.

Provides a built-in integrated data catalog that allows users to easily locate data across multiple sources.

Monitors and cleanses data with the help of business rules and analytical algorithms.

Visualize data flows and lineage that demonstrates compliance with reports and dashboards through a single console.

Provides an automated data lineage functionality which provides visibility over the entire data movement journey from data origination to destination.

Authenticates and authorizes individuals to access the data they are allowed to see and use.

Helps identify and manage the roles of owners and stewards of data.

Helps adhere to data privacy regulations and norms.

Defines, validates, and monitors business rules to safeguard master data readiness.

Allows users to create and review data policies to make them consistent across the organization.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives