SAS has multiple tools to address a variety of text analytics techniques for a range of business applications.
Display 1.1 shows the SAS tools that address different areas of text analytics. In a typical situation, you might
need to use more than one tool for solving a text analytics problem. However, there is some overlap in the
underlying features that some of these tools have to offer. Display 1.2 provides an integrated view of SAS Text
Analytics tools. It shows, at a high level, how they are organized in terms of functionality and scope. SAS
Crawler can extract content from the web, file systems, or feeds, and then send it as input to SAS Text Miner,
SAS Sentiment Analysis Studio, or SAS Content Categorization. These tools are capable of sending content to
the indexing server where information is indexed. The query server enables you to enter search queries and
retrieve relevant information from the indexed content.