Each day business users everywhere gather, manipulate and report information using Microsoft Office applications. But in most cases, the data that is needed for analyses and reports originates in, or is analyzed by, systems and applications outside of the Microsoft Office suite. Business analysts frequently need access to large data sources that exceed the limitations of Microsoft Office tools.

They also may need access to sophisticated analytic techniques such as predictive analysis and forecasting capabilities that are not available in standard reporting packages. Yet they still need to present the results of their analysis in formats that others can share and understand. As a result, IT groups spend valuable time developing custom systems to channel data, reports and analyses from various systems into Microsoft Office documents, or integrating analytics into standard reporting applications. This leads to IT backlogs, long wait times for reports and analyses, and invalid analyses based on highly aggregated data.

What if you could easily incorporate the powerful data management, analytics and reporting capabilities of SAS into your organization’s widely used Microsoft Office tools? With SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office, you can. SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office is a Component Object Model (COM) add-in to Microsoft Office that enables organizations to harness the power of SAS analytics and provides easy access to data directly from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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