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.
Keith Joho
Vice President of Informatics and Bioanalytical Operations
Surromed
Flexible
and Rapid Prototyping
The Power of the S Programming Language: S-PLUS 7
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 7 includes the
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 7 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.
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
7 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 7 includes
native database drivers that allow programmers to select from
large relational databases using high-performance clients.