General Overview
STATISTICA Enterprise-wide Data Analysis System (SEDAS)
is a comprehensive multi-user version of STATISTICA designed
to work in variety of corporate or research environments - virtually
everywhere where groups of users perform data analysis on shared
datasets or where they can benefit from tools for collaborative
work. In business environments SEDAS can be easily integrated
into the existing systems and, for example, it can complement ERP
(Enterprise Resource Planning) software.
SEDAS offers:
True Groupware, knowledge-sharing functionality to promote
collaboration among users – beyond what standard network versions
offer
SEDAS significantly enhances the functionality of STATISTICA
by its built-in support for extensive groupware functionality,
encouraging collaboration among users.
Standard network versions of application programs typically have
no (or very limited) support for the collaborative work of groups of
users, and (with the exception of designated multi-user database
management applications) usually have no support for central,
multi-user repositories of data. The main advantages of standard
network versions of application programs are (a) the lower cost
"per seat" compared to stand alone programs, (b) saving
disk space (since only one copy of the application files resides on
the network), and (c) the ease of patching or upgrading to new
versions (only one copy needs to be reinstalled or patched).
However, no file sharing or any other groupware/multi-user features
are supported in such applications, and, for example, two users
cannot work on the same file.
SEDAS users can share queries of any degree of complexity,
allowing them to retrieve specific subsets of data from central
repositories and share scripts of analyses that can be centrally
updated (e.g., predefined reports that can be centrally adjusted by
supervisors or designated analysts). The results of their work can
be shared either in the local environments (by making them available
to other users who enjoy the respective access privileges) or the
global cyberspace (e.g., by publishing HTML reports on the
Internet/Intranet).
Moreover, with the addition of the optional STATISTICA Web
Server functionality, users can benefit from the power of STATISTICA
using virtually any computer in the world as long as it is connected
to the Internet.
State-of-the-art database connectivity options to link to large
databases (e.g., enterprise data warehouses)
Fully integrated with a suite of system administration tools and
a powerful data warehouse that stores STATISTICA datasets, SEDAS
provides an efficient general interface to enterprise-wide
repositories of data.
SEDAS is organized around a central STATISTICA (SEDAS)
data warehouse that can be installed on any of the industry standard
database management systems (including all major scalable systems
such as Oracle, Sybase, ms SQL Server, or IBM DB2). The installation
of the SEDAS warehouse can be done by setting up a SEDAS
warehouse template (schema) on a server and does not involve
extensive knowledge about the specific database environment. SEDAS
is available with predefined data warehouse templates for all
industry standard databases (over 30 types and versions are
supported), so the deployment of the system is relatively simple.
This enterprise data interface function (making the enterprise
data easily accessible) is one of the important advantages of SEDAS.
And, depending on the existing data warehouses and users' access
privileges, a comprehensive SEDAS security management system
allows the administrators to assign specific access privileges to
particular categories of users.
Also, SEDAS offers options to process data from remote
databases "in place" without the need to import the data
to the local storage device. This technology produces significant
performance gains (compared to importing the data subsets before
they can be processed). It also allows you to process datasets that
are larger than the local storage device (e.g., terabytes of data).
Automatic data monitoring/analysis; analytic auto-responding;
enterprise data broadcasting
In today's rapidly changing business world, success depends more
than ever on a business' ability to quickly respond to the changing
conditions. The reliance on comprehensive insight into the available
data and the ability to quickly respond either directly or by
performing appropriate, predefined analyses are no longer a luxury
but a real necessity. The proactive data broadcasting and automated
analysis functions available in SEDAS are the ideal
complement to procedures found in ERP software.
SEDAS features powerful facilities to automatically react
to user-defined conditions in data. These custom-defined conditions
can be of practically any complexity and they can even represent
results of on-line analyses performed by SEDAS in real-time
on the incoming data stream or on sampled data.
These flexible facilities are built using StatSoft's real-time
data monitoring technologies and they can be used in countless
business or research applications. Facilities are provided to setup
any SEDAS workstation as an automatic data monitor and/or
processor, that will fetch or sample the appropriate data subsets
from the SEDAS or other enterprise data warehouse, perform
the predefined analyses and then respond appropriately. For example,
when certain conditions are met (e.g., the price of a particular
commodity reaches a certain threshold, certain inventory falls below
a particular level, the number of complaints or registered defects
compared to the moving average exceeds a preset tolerance level),
then SEDAS will automatically execute a predefined action
(e.g., send e-mail, send a fax, call a pager, or simply broadcast
the relevant information or the result of analyses to selected
members of the organization or nodes of the SEDAS
installation).
Easy-to-use administration tools
Easy-to-use administration tools in SEDAS provide the
power to define the specific permissions of users, the queries to
external data sources, and the reports to be generated. Flexible
tools allow you to customize the view that a user sees, organized by
department, report type, etc. SEDAS is also centrally managed
so that changes made to the system through the administration tools
are immediately available on all workstations. The administration
tools in SEDAS are similar to those available in SEWSS.
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