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SAS is now shipping SAS(r) Visual Data Discovery, an offering especially attractive to midmarket companies. The bundle delivers insights via rich, interactive analytics visualizations that far surpass the limited graphics available elsewhere.

Mintel International selects SAS Visual Data Discovery for interactive, dynamic analytics

CARY, NC (July 07, 2008) -- Visualization helps organizations quickly see explore and understand patterns in data -- speeding time to intelligence. SAS, the leader in business intelligence, is now shipping SAS Visual Data Discovery, an offering especially attractive to midmarket companies. The bundle delivers insights via rich, interactive analytics visualizations that far surpass the limited graphics available elsewhere.

The software frees business executives and analysts, engineers and other researchers from limitations of spreadsheets and static charts, helping extract critical insights from huge volumes of data. Dynamic visualization enables companies such as Mintel International, an industry-leading market research company, to interactively explore ideas and information, investigate patterns and discover previously hidden facts.

SAS Visual Data Discovery, powered by SAS analytics and JMP� software, allows users to grab, spin and slice data, viewing it from multiple dimensions. Interactive graphs include 3-D scatterplots, lattice graphics, needle plots and summary charts. Animated bubble plots put graphs in motion, creating interactive "data movies" for a more engaging and fruitful discovery process.

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