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Whats’s new in SAS Visual Analytics 8.4niklas.schulman@sas.com

High Level Comparison of VA Releases

HTML5 Viewer

Flash Viewer

Designer

Explorer

7.4 7.5

Gaps

No Flash Viewer

Unified UI

8.3

Very similar look & feel

Full feature replacement*

Very similar look & feel

Unified UI Explore and Visualize

8.4

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Usability Enhancements

Brand New Features

Better Performance

Consolidated Viewer/Designer

Vis

ual

An

alyt

ics

8.4

Better Performance

• Improved application load time

• Improved report load time

• Non interactive reports (with live data)

• Datetime cache

• Crosstab queries

• Time period queries

• Improved memory management

• Background queries

• Reduced footprint

• Product tour

• Quick start

• View & Edit transition

• Multiple report viewing and editing

• Copy link & share report

• Enhanced data item tooltip*

• Objects pane enhancements*

• Visual grouping*

• Object options from context menu*

• Report localization window*

• Keyboard shortcuts window*

• Keyboard support for moving objects*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Usability Enhancements

• Periodic reload of data (report refresh)

• Alert subscriptions

• Report playback

• View report in full screen

• Expanded user’s report state

• Report information in dialog

• Object selection

• New right panes (viewer)

• Toggle high contrast while viewing

• Undo/redo for viewers

Consolidated Viewer/Designer

• Suggest pane*

• Related measures*

• List table enhancements*

• Date display rules*

• Data tip values and hidden roles support for Word Clouds*

• Derive hierarchy from crosstab*

• Crosstab lines can be disabled*

• New report themes*

Brand New Features

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Brand New Features

• Automated Explanation

• Printing enhancements

• Viewer customizations

• Placement of controls at the report and page levels

• Save object templates along with their data

• More options in Graph Builder

• Product tour

• Duplicate labels

• SAS Drive enhancements

• Visual Analytics SDK

• More…

Visual Analytics 8.4

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DEMO: Better performance

Better Performance

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DEMO: Usability Enhancements

Usability EnhancementsProduct tour

Usability EnhancementsQuick Start

Usability EnhancementsView and edit transition

Usability EnhancementsMultiple report viewing and editing

Usability EnhancementsCopy link

Usability EnhancementsShare report

Usability EnhancementsEnhanced data item tooltip*

• In addition to format, aggregation, etc. that existed before in VA 8.3…

• … hover over data item to see “used by” information, including:• Objects (roles, display rules, filters,

ranks)

• Custom categories

• Calculated items

• Hierarchies

• etc.

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Usability EnhancementsObjects pane customizations*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

• Sort objects by name or most recently used

• Show objects without groups

• Customize object group order

• Customizations tied to the user

Usability EnhancementsVisual grouping*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

• Select category values from the visualization and right click on them to bring the pop-up menu

• Create new custom group by giving it a name

• Select and add new values to existing custom groups

• Custom groups are created with the same name as the category and kept as hidden custom categories

• Make them visible to change the custom group name or edit it

Usability EnhancementsAccess to object formatting options from context menu*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

• Available to *most* of the objects

• Example for bar chart:

• Bar direction (horizontal/vertical bars)

• Grouping style (stacked/clustered)

• Group scale (actual/normalized values)

• Labels (on/off)

• Hide/show legend

• More…

Usability EnhancementsReport localization window*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

• Option in the report toolbar menu

• Icons on the top right:

• Import and export translation file

• Report can be modified in localized languages (not necessarily in the original language it was created)

Usability EnhancementsAccessibility – move objects around with keyboard*

• Before/after neighbor objects

• Beginning/end of page

• Works for positioning objects inside containers as well

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Usability EnhancementsAccessibility – keyboard shortcuts window*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

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DEMO: Consolidated Viewer/Designer

Consolidated Viewer/DesignerGeneral Look & Feel

Consolidated Viewer/Designer

Toggle between Viewer & Designer

View/Edit Transition

Consolidated Viewer/Designer

• Enter Fullscreen Mode• Show/Hide Side Pane• Undo/Redo• Main Report Menu• Number of opened reports

New Toolbar

Consolidated Viewer/Designer

Alert Subscriptions available from the application menu

Alert Subscription

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DEMO: Brand New Features

Brand New FeaturesSuggest pane*

• Suggests random visualizations based on type, cardinality, etc.

• Use the buttons to add more visualizations or refresh them all

• Right-click on the suggestion and use the pop-up menu to remove the suggestion from the list or add it to the report.

• Or simply drag & drop the suggestion to add it into the report

• Pane can be turned off in user’s settings

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Brand New FeaturesQuickly select related measures*

• Click to select one or more measures and see what other measures are strongly correlated to them (blue dots)

• Click on the selection menu at the bottom to access the selection options:• Related (highly correlated)

• Same format

• Same aggregation

• All

• Related measures can be turned off in user’s settings

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Brand New FeaturesList table enhancements*

• Right click on list table to:

• Freeze columns

• Hide columns

- Side effect: allows sorting by hidden column ☺

• UI to manage columns (hide, unhide, order)

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Brand New FeaturesDate-based display rules*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Brand New FeaturesData Tip and Hidden role support for Word Clouds*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Brand New FeaturesDerive hierarchy from crosstab*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Brand New FeaturesCrosstab lines can be disabled*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Brand New FeaturesNew report themes*

* Introduced in VA 7.5

Opal Midnight

Brand New FeaturesAutomated explanation

Brand New FeaturesPrinting enhancements

Brand New FeaturesViewer customizations

• Controls the level of customization that report viewers are permitted • Level 1 (simple edits): enables report viewers to

make changes that do not change the report author’s original intent for the report content, e.g. sort, toggles, orientation, etc.

• Level 2 (comprehensive edits): enables report viewers to make changes that might alter the original intent of the report author, e.g. object type. That’s the default.

• Level 3 (data edits): enables report viewers to change the data/query for the objects, e.g. change data assignments, filters, ranks, grouping, hierarchy creation from crosstab, etc.

Brand New FeaturesPlacement of controls at the report and page levels

Page control at the top

Page control at the left

Brand New FeaturesSave object templates along with their data

Provides some of the import capabilities that existed in VA on SAS 9

Brand New FeaturesMore options in Graph Builder

Graph Builder provides additional options

Graphs created with Graph Builder now display more options in the Options pane inside of VA

Brand New FeaturesMore

• Duplicate labels - In the previous releases, data items were required to have unique names. In the 8.4 release, that restriction has been removed.

• Multiple unique IDs - In the past when working with analytics objects, like Text Topics, you could only have one unique ID in a dataset. Now you can have multiple unique IDs within the same dataset

• New options are available for geo contour maps (see screenshot on the right)

• In the geo map object, your zoom state, location pins, and geographic selections are now saved as part of the report state

Brand New FeaturesSAS Drive

• Product tour

• Quick Access recommendations

• Reposition/reorder thumbnails in the Quick Access bar

• Favorite items marked with a star

• New tab capabilities• Create tab from folders for quicker access• Close multiple unpinned tabs with a click

• Information pane on the right is now resizable and remembers state

• Copy link to report (same as in VA)

• Improved PDF handling: preview window and view in new browser tab

SAS Drive Brand New FeaturesProduct tour

SAS Drive Brand New Features

Quick Access recommendations

Reposition/reorder thumbnails in the Quick Access bar

SAS Drive Brand New Features

Favorite items marked with a star

Close multiple unpinned tabs with a click

Create tab from folders for quicker access

SAS Drive Brand New Features

Information pane on the right is now resizable and remembers state

Copy link to report (same as in VA)

SAS Drive Brand New Features

Improved PDF handling: preview window and view in new browser tab

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A collection of JavaScript libraries

that web developers can use

to embed SAS Visual Analytics insights

within their web pages and web apps.

SAS® Visual Analytics SDKWhat is it?

SAS® Visual Analytics SDKWhat you can do now

Within your web page or web apps:

• Embed entire VA reports.

• Embed individual VA objects from one or multiple reports

• Support interactions between multiple VA objects.

• Share data between VA objects and JavaScript controls.

• Perform interactions between VA objects and JavaScript controls.

Additional Info

What’s Coming in SAS Visual Analytics 8.4• https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/visual-analytics/new-features.html