SAS^® Energy Forecasting Features

Highly scalable

• Choose the level of forecast automation that's best for you:
  
  • Use fully automated, hands-off forecast generation.
    
  • Import externally developed existing models to use in the software (then automate parameter estimation).
    
  • Build custom models within the software user interface.
    
• Incorporate ongoing and repeatable forecasting as part of your overall planning process. The solution uses established time-series forecasting methods that can be used throughout the forecasting process.
  
• Address large-scale enterprise forecasting problems using the solution's client/server architecture.
  

Trustworthy forecasts

• Automatically perform large-scale enterprise forecasting tasks.
• Define flexible hierarchies and models through an interactive graphical interface that lets users define hierarchies that are most suitable to their particular forecasting challenges.
• Perform automatic hierarchical forecasting and reconciliation up and down the hierarchy, preserving locked forecast values.
• Generate exception reports based on sound statistical logic and business rules.
  

Easy to manage

• Supports forecasting as an ongoing and repeated process that fits into your organization's planning workflow.
• Lets you easily customize several aspects of the large-scale forecasting process, including exception rules, model repository and events.
• Allows for discretionary manual overrides of statistical forecast values, and locking of the overrides.
• Generates and saves SAS code, which can be used for subsequent batch processing.