S-PLUS® 8 Enterprise developer — Delivering the Knowledge to Act to Your Entire Organization

The practice of using analytics across all functional areas of the business enterprise is recognized as a key competitive advantage by market leaders across all industries. While any company can look at the simple statistics of its day-to-day operations, industry leaders are utilizing predictive analytics to identify or create and exploit their advantages in operations, customer management, production and research. That is why market leaders around the world use S-PLUS.

S-PLUS 8 continues to deliver the advantages of an open architecture, scalability and flexibility to integrate advanced analytics into your everyday business processes. Superior graphic output and the ability to employ cutting edge statistics ensure you are armed with the knowledge to act at every critical decision point and clearly communicate to all audiences regardless of their level of technical expertise.

Key Benefits

* Deliver Analytics within Business Processes
* Prototype, Test and Deploy Faster
* Communicate Effectively with Advanced Graphics and Reporting
* Commercial Support for Cutting-Edge Statistics

Learn More About S-PLUS 8:

* Request a FREE S-PLUS for Windows 30-Day Trial CD
* View a demonstration of S-PLUS
* Already using S-PLUS? Read about the new features in
S-PLUS 8
* S-PLUS 8 brochure
* S-PLUS 8 Enterprise Developer brochure
* S-PLUS 8 feature list and system requirements
* S-PLUS 8 Getting Started Guide [Win / UNIX]

DELIVER ANALYTICS WITHIN BUSINESS PROCESSES

Streamlining Development of Statistical Applications: The most comprehensive library of statistical and mathematical algorithms available is combined with an integrated development environment, streamlining source code control and project management, to make S-PLUS 8 your best choice for creation and deployment of predictive analytics and reporting solutions.

Unlimited Scalability: Stream large data sets through available RAM to analyze gigabytes of data on existing hardware without the need for additional RAM or 64-bit operating systems.
Providing Enterprise-wide Access to Analytics: Once created on the desktop, applications can be seamlessly deployed onto the S-PLUS Server. Deliver your results and reports across your enterprise, within existing applications or specialized web-based portals.

PROTOTYPE, TEST AND DEPLOY FASTER

On The Shoulders of Giants: The ground-breaking S language enables S-PLUS 8 to continue to expand and improve the most flexible and concise programming platform commercially available. S-PLUS developers can create new applications up to five times faster than with competing commercial systems.

Enhanced Development Tools: S-PLUS 8 includes the S-PLUS Workbench, an integrated development environment designed to enable development teams to create rigorous 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 debugging and profiling.

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 within business processes.

COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY WITH ADVANCED GRAPHICS AND REPORTING

Interactive Graphics: S-PLUS 8 provides an interactive graphics system with a large and normalized palette for the creation of statistical charts to your 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 incorporating statistical tables and publication-quality graphics.

Share Information Easily: Integration with popular desktop publishing tools ensures that end users can view and share analytic graphics in the format they use most.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT FOR CUTTING-EDGE STATISTICS

Utilize the Latest in Statistics Research: With the S-PLUS Package System new in S-PLUS 8 you can convert R packages for use within S-PLUS. Now you can avail yourself of cutting-edge statistics being written in open source within a commercially supported environment.

Create and Share Packages, Reliably and Predictably: With the S-PLUS Package System you can deliver a complete analytic package with instructions, comments and data set definitions to ensure that your colleagues are receiving the right results without any second-guessing or lost time in redundant information exchange.

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