Components and features

Last updated: 2023-11-13 16:50

The healthstat.be application contains the following major components: SAS Viya, Drupal CMS, Keycloack.

SAS Viya

SAS Viya is a cloud-enabled, in-memory analytics engine that provides quick, accurate and reliable analytical insights. In the healthstat.be application SAS Viya engine is enabled on premise (on the private cloud infrastructure of healthdata.be).

SAS Visual Analytics is a component of SAS VIYA used by healthstat.be to enable the exploration of patterns, trends and relationship between data points. It’s possible for users to explore data insights without complicated advanced analytical skills.

SAS Scripting Wrapper for Analytics Transfer (SWAT) package enables Python and r developers to connect to SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) engine of the SAS Viya framework to publish Python and r data visualizations into the healthstat.be portal.

Drupal CMS

Drupal is a web content management system. Drupal includes core modules that can be enabled by the administrator to extend the functionality of the core healthstat.be application: .access statistics and logging, advanced search, custom content type and fields, and user interface to create, manage, and display lists of content, multi-level menu system, multi-user content creation and editing, RSS feed and feed aggregator, security and new release update notification, user profiles, various access control restrictions , and workflow tools.

Keycloak

Keycloak is an application to allow single sign-on with Identity and Access Management for web applications and services. It is used to mediate between the Federal Authentication Service (FAS) - enabling authentication with eID and Itsme - and the SAS VIYA framework – connecting to the authorized reports in healthstat.be.