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…
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