These new analytic capabilities allow managers to discover patterns, drill into detailed data, perform analysis and visualize relationships, without writing any code or contacting any data scientist.

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SAS's products are used to perform analysis in data-intensive industries such as insurance, health care, banking and retailing.

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To perform our analysis, we used data from Morningstar.

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In addition, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) can access unstructured, raw data such as tweets, do pattern matching, find the structure, and perform sentiment analysis.

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To run analytics, data had to be extracted out of the database into applications like SAS and proprietary NYSE apps to perform necessary analysis.

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