S-PLUS® 8—Delivering the Power of Predictive Analytics Across the Enterprise

Historically, advanced data analysis has required complex skills and esoteric knowledge, consigning the power of business analytics to a limited number of experts. S-PLUS 8 builds on the proven power of the S-PLUS platform to deliver the benefits of predictive analysis to users across the enterprise.

Designed with an open architecture and flexible interfaces, S-PLUS provides the scalability to handle gigabyte-size data sets and the flexibility needed to integrate advanced analytics into the business processes that decisions makers and researchers interact with every day. With S-PLUS, statisticians and developers can quickly develop prototypes and deliver targeted applications that automate analytical processes and enable non-statisticians to conduct their own analyses.

Key Benefits

• Integrate Statistics Into Business Processes
• Flexible and Rapid Prototyping
• Improved Communication With Advanced Visualization and Custom Reports
• Insight From Large Data Sets

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INTEGRATE STATISTICS INTO BUSINESS PROCESSES

Streamlining Development of Statistical Applications: The most comprehensive library of statistical and mathematical algorithms available, combined with a strong development environment to streamline source code control and project management, makes S-PLUS the ideal solution for rapid creation of new statistical applications for integration across the enterprise.

Transforming Prototypes Into Targeted Applications: Analytic applications often start out as experimental prototypes. For prototypes that are used repeatedly, S-PLUS enables developers to add a user interface and deploy the application to production as an automated batch process, Web-based solution, or through a custom client/server or desktop application or using C++, Java™, or OLE APIs.

Providing Enterprise-wide Access to Analytics: Tight integration with familiar applications such as Microsoft® PowerPoint® and Microsoft Excel, and the ability to integrate statistical applications created using S-PLUS within Web portals and extensible desktop applications, means decision-makers can benefit from predictive analytics using the applications and solutions they are familiar with.

The S-PLUS solution has increased the productivity of our scientists, streamlining a process that used to take several days to minutes. At the same time, the technology provides our users with a standard interface ensuring consistency of analysis, letting users access and work with large data sets.

FLEXIBLE AND RAPID PROTOTYPING

The Power of the S Programming Language: S-PLUS combines the elegance of the S language, the premier language for the development of statistical applications, with a comprehensive library of statistical, graphical, and data-processing techniques, enabling S-PLUS developers to create new applications up to five times faster than with competing systems.

Improved Development Tools: S-PLUS Workbench, a new interface designed to enable development teams to create more reliable applications faster than ever before. Based on the industry-standard Eclipse™ framework, the S-PLUS Workbench provides a syntax-aware code editor, tools for project and task management, code validation and error correction, and much more.

Managing Larger Projects: Integration with standard source control systems means the S-PLUS Workbench allows development teams to reliably manage large projects when developing applications for integration with business processes.

Insightful Corporation has been delivering proven analytic solutions to Wall Street for more than 18 years, so we were confident that their software would provide us with the tools we needed to analyze our financial data. In our business, delivering the best information quickly is essential. The programming language of S-PLUS has allowed us to prototype new analytics within minutes and deliver new information to our clients the next day.

IMPROVED COMMUNICATION WITH ADVANCED VISUALIZATION AND CUSTOM REPORTS

Insight Through Interactive Graphics: S-PLUS provides an interactive graphical system that enables the creation of statistical charts to exact specifications. S-PLUS Graphlets® allow application developers to embed custom interactive graphics into Web pages where business users can zoom, select, and drill-down to answer specific questions or hyperlink to supporting information.

Customized, Automated Reports: An XML reporting library speeds development of customized reports that incorporate statistical tables and publication-quality graphics that are automatically generated by batch processes and updated with the latest data.

Share Graphical Information Easily: Support for cut-and-paste operations with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, along with a Microsoft PowerPoint® generation wizard, ensures that end users can view and share analytic graphics in the format they are most comfortable with

Our biggest challenge is delivering an analytic solution that can manage the growing complexity and size of the data we need to analyze, and dynamically create the reports that are essential for the management team to manage our business.

INSIGHT FROM LARGE DATA SETS

New Pipeline Architecture: A new pipeline engine streams large data sets through available RAM instead of reading the entire data set into memory at once. This enables S-PLUS users to analyze gigabytes of data on existing hardware without the need for additional RAM or 64-bit operating systems.

New Features for Handling Large Data Sets: S-PLUS also includes a new data type for dealing with very large data objects, and offers many new scalable algorithms for handling larger data sets. In addition, S-PLUS includes native database drivers that allow programmers to select from large relational databases using high-performance clients.

Flexible, Rapid Development and Unlimited Scalability: By combining the ability to handle large data sets with the elegance and power of the S programming language, S-PLUS is the only statistical software package that combines the rapid-development environment of a modern 4GL language with the power to scale to extremely large data sets.

S-PLUS is clearly a powerful solution for quickly building models that are used to develop rating criteria. These criteria are the basis of the models we license and distribute to our rating customers. The flexibility of S-PLUS makes it a natural choice for exploring and building new models rapidly—critical in an industry that introduces new mortgage products frequently. S-PLUS provides support for the analysis of large datasets and allows our analysts to quickly visualize key findings critical for understanding the drivers of mortgage loan defaults. As a result, our customers have faster access to information and Standard & Poor's analytics they need to size risk in their mortgage securities.