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.
New Features in S-PLUS 8.0 Enterprise Developer
The S-PLUS Workbench enhancements: Building on our success with the 7.0 release we have added new capabilities to speed your development efforts and improve the quality of your code.
&bullDebugger tool: The interactive debugger allows users to quickly debug S-PLUScode from within the S-PLUSworkbench.
The application has modern debugging tools including step debugging and breakpoints.
&bullProfiler tool: The profiler provides an environment for writing and developing functions in S-PLUSthat allow profiling of time and memory allocation within S-PLUStasks. You can now optimize the code's execution by evaluating where bottlenecks may occur.
With the enhanced S-PLUSWorkbench, you can create reliable statistical applications for deployment across the enterprise with greater speed than ever before.
New graphic enhancements: Already a leading platform for graphics creation and delivery, in version 8 we have included a larger and normalized color palette as well as simplifying the code necessary to deliver complex graphs and charts. Whether you are creating graphics for submission to a regulatory agency, distributing to a group of executive decision-makers, or creating for publication, S-PLUS 8 Enterprise Developer makes this task easier and more time efficient.
New S-PLUSPackage System: With published packages available S-PLUS 8 Enterprise Developer provides a convenient framework for creating and distributing libraries for S-PLUSand for converting R packages for use in S-PLUS.
Sâ„? language extensions: Over one hundred new functions have been added in order to support the graphics enhancements, S-PLUSPackage System and to augment compatibility with S-PLUSopen source cousin; R. Types of functions that have been added include math, character, file manipulation and string manipulation.
