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This post is more than two years old, but remains popular.  For an updated discussion, read How to Buy SAS Visual Analytics on this blog.

Thanks to a white paper recently published by an H-P engineer, we now have a better idea about what it takes to implement SAS Visual Analytics, SAS’ in-memory BI and visualization platform.

(Note: SAS has taken down the white paper since this post was published).

(Updated again June 27:   SAS has reposted an edited version of the white paper, with interesting parts removed.  The paper currently posted at this link is not the original.)

It’s an interesting picture.

A few key points:

(1) Implementation is a science project.  

Quoting from the paper:

…too often the needed pre-planning does not occur and the result is weeks to months of frantic activity to address those issues which should and could have been addressed earlier and…