Question

Discuss the role of Open Source Integration node in SAS Enterprise Miner. Explain the pros and cons with real-life examples.

Answer 1

Role of Open source integration node in SAS

• The Open Source Integration node enables you to write code in the R language inside SAS Enterprise Miner.
• The Open Source Integration node makes SAS Enterprise Miner data and metadata available to your R code and returns R results to SAS Enterprise Miner.
• In addition to training and scoring supervised and unsupervised R models, the Open Source Integration node allows for data transformation and data exploration.
• Further, when you run an appropriate R package with Output Mode set to PMML, your results should contain the standard assessment plots and tables that are associated with the corresponding modeling node.
• Though the node enables you to incorporate many aspects of the R language into SAS Enterprise Miner, there are limitations.
• Successful deployment requires correct configuration and an understanding of both the R and SAS Enterprise Miner data analysis platforms.

pros and cons of saas in advanced analytics

pros

• SAS is can be used as query builder tool which can automate a lot of excel process.

• There are variety of statistical options available that tie up good visual analytics.

• There are inbuilt models available for different operations which doesn't require any coding and are easy to run.

cons

• Query builders have less functionality compared to some tools like alteryx.

• Modifying and customizing outputs are still a cumbersome process.

• Coding for special tasks is difficult and lengthy.