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Abstract
Today’s enterprise CEOs recognize that business analytics are critical to the success of many functions, such as marketing, product pricing, demand prediction, supply chain optimization, and customer relationship management. Incorporating analytics into your business can increase revenues, improve processes, reduce costs, and help you to more effectively target customers. Insightful analytics changes how everyday, fundamental business decisions are made.
Savvy strategists recognize that combining data from across their platforms might well hold the key to making better informed decisions. Further, they recognize that SAS is the software that can effectively drive the transformation of their enterprise, from the fundamentals up through the business. With SAS, enterprises can shape big data into practical decisions that differentiate and innovate. By using SAS, you can harness data from throughout your enterprise, to integrate it, and to then act upon it as quickly as your success demands. SAS is at home in the IBM® zEnterprise® environment and is aligned with an IBM strategy to help you fully use your network in what is, by necessity, an increasingly multiplatform IT world.
This IBM Redguide™ publication illustrates how, by deploying SAS in the zEnterprise environment, you can fully use data that is spread across your enterprise to make better informed business decisions. It addresses how IBM z/OS® customers can take full advantage of SAS in an enterprise environment. The target audience for this guide is executives, data center managers, and IT managers.
Table of contents
Executive overview
Today's enterprise strategies and the mainframe
How SAS can help drive enterprise strategies
Extending enterprise capabilities with SAS on zBX
Test deployment of SAS on zBX
Benefits of deploying SAS on zBX
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