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- The Power of Spatially-Enabled Master Address Data Management
- This webinar provides an understanding of the anatomy of addresses and address systems - their complexities, importance, and optimal use. It presents solutions and applications for government and private organizations as well as technical strategies for EAS database creation and data maintenance. The webinar emphasizes the integration of an EAS...
- Tags: Webinar, SAS Institute, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-04-17
- Controlling OLAP Applications End to End
- In SAS 9.2, there are several new features that help administrators to secure and control the use of OLAP Cubes in a reporting environment. This paper highlights the following new and existing features: ability to include or exclude members from aggregated values parent values, member Level Security user interface, subsetting...
- Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-24
- Academic Business Intelligence System Development Using SAS Tools
- Managing an organization requires access to information in order to monitor the organization activities and assess its performance. Indeed, the increasing demand for information plus the growing data volumes and customer populations can pose problems to the organization. A way to tackle these issues can be found in Business Intelligence...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Business Intelligence System, Tool, Organization, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Operational Planning, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-03-13
- New Architecture and Speed With a Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance
- One of the biggest challenges organizations have is how they store and retrieve for analysis large amounts of data. This problem has plagued industries for years. As data sizes grow into Terabytes and Petabytes, organizations continue to face these challenges as users want to analyze and report on 'The whole...
- Tags: Appliance, Data Warehouse, SAS Institute, Netezza, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Evaluating Predictive Models: Computing and Interpreting the c Statistic
- Automation of predictive model selection has become the alchemy of today's Business Intelligence BI, with BI practitioners hoping to transform jargon and acronyms into gold. While statistical modeling experts disparage 'Black-box' methods, business analysts tend to ignore theory and traditional model diagnostics, and rely on 'Lift' or 'Gain' charts; that...
- Tags: Statistic, SAS Institute, Computing, Modeling, Research & Development, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Going Beyond Simple Information Maps to Improve Access to Data Sources
- SAS Information Maps provide users with easy access to rather simply-defined data sources. Although they can be directed to external relational databases, performance can be an issue due to the way in which queries are built and passed via the LIBNAME engine within the SAS/Access products. In addition, sometimes it...
- Tags: Data Source, Microsoft Access, SAS Institute, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Getting Started With the ESRI Map Component in a Unix Environment for 2010 Census Planning
- The basic steps in setting up the ESRI Map Component for geospatial display of data on a SAS BI platform are well documented. As one followed these steps at the Bureau of the Census to get from ESRI map development on Windows to map-displayed OLAP Cube data on the Unix-based...
- Tags: Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., SAS Institute, Unix, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Avoid Growing Pains: New Cube Update Features You Should Know About
- After a SAS OLAP cube is created, it is possible to update the data for the cube without completely recreating it. The SAS 9.2 OLAP Server enables one to incrementally update SAS OLAP cubes. An incremental update involves adding cell data and members to an existing SAS OLAP cube. Incremental...
- Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, SAS 9.2 OLAP Server, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-12
- SAS Enterprise Miner Performance on IBM System p 570
- Turning increasing amounts of raw data into useful information have become increasingly important in today's highly competitive business environment, increasing the demand for predictive, analytics data mining solutions. SAS Enterprise Miner EM, powerful and comprehensive data mining software, includes services and training to help organizations get started right away exploring...
- Tags: SAS Institute, IBM Corp., Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The SAS Group Improves Insight Into Financial Data
- The SAS Group, the Nordic region's largest listed airline and travel group, offers air transportation and airline-related services from its base in Northern Europe. The company wanted to eliminate fragmentation by creating a single reporting repository for operational financial information The challenge was to replace two obsolescent but highly functional...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, SAS Institute, Financial Accounting, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- Beyond the Basics: Advanced OLAP Techniques
- With version 9 of SAS came with a completely new OLAP framework that would give developers the ability to customize OLAP report data in ways never before possible from within SAS. Multidimensional Expression Language is the foundation of v9 SAS cubes and is responsible for the increased flexibility and functionality....
- Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Calculating Statistics Using PROC MEANS Versus PROC SQL
- PROC SQL is a widely used language for retrieving and updating data in tables/views. Mainly it is used to retrieve data from RDBMS, calculate the descriptive statistics or summarize the data. The MEANS procedure provides data summarization tools to compute descriptive statistics for variables across all observations and within groups...
- Tags: Statistics, SAS Institute, PROC SQL, MEANS Procedure, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- PROC SQL - The Dark Side of SAS?
- PROC SQL - two dreaded words for the author up until about few months ago. As a die-hard DATA step programmer, the author shunned SQL for the ease of DATA step programming without having to succumb to dealing with things like "RIGHT OUTER UNION JOIN." Unfortunately, the time comes to...
- Tags: Author, SAS Institute, SQL, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Talking to Your RDBMS Using SAS/ACCESS
- SAS/Access has grown in complexity as SAS continues to make it easier to use and expand its functionality. There are now many different ways to access the Relational DataBase Management Systems RDBMS data - by using a Libname or SQL Pass-Through facility. What's the difference? What's going on "Under the...
- Tags: SAS Institute, RDBMS, SAS/ACCESS, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Introduction to the SAS9 Business Intelligence Platform: A Tutorial
- Business Intelligence BI is a broad category of application programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications support the activities of decision support, query and reporting, OnLine Analytical Processing OLAP, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining....
- Tags: SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- The Enterprise Melting Pot: Everyone's a SAS User - They Just Don't Know It
- This paper describes the business intelligence effort for the Decennial Census through implementation of SAS Business Intelligence. The intended audience for this paper is organizations that are just beginning to implement common enterprise-wide computing that want insight into the decision process. The paper highlights what worked for them, how they...
- Tags: Environment, SAS Institute, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Performance Driven Data Integration: An Optimized Approach
- Characteristically, the data warehouse is a central repository of vast amounts of disparate data. The process of cleansing, extracting, transforming and organizing this data into an enterprise intelligence platform data mart presents unique challenges. An optimized approach towards performance driven data integration should eliminate redundancy and incorporate accuracy, timeliness, automation...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Performance, SAS Institute, Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Workforce Preparation: Equipping Undergraduates With SAS Knowledge
- Knowledge of data structures, data quality, data cleaning, SAS programming, data analysis, technical report preparation, and the ability to present analyses to management are all key skills needed by today's professionals. This presentation will describe an innovative new undergraduate program at the University of Memphis that teaches these skills to...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Knowledge, SAS Institute, Workforce, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Demeter in the Database
- Relational database normal form is nothing more than variable dereference. Used properly by following the two most important rules of object-oriented design, separation and encapsulation, one's database model will always work well. Violating the Law of Demeter enforces a concrete implementation on an otherwise abstract model, effectively multiplying in Cartesian...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Storage, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Introduction to the SAS 9 Business Intelligence Platform: A Tutorial
- Business Intelligence BI is a broad category of application programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications support the activities of decision support, query and reporting, Online Analytical Processing OLAP, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining....
- Tags: SAS Institute, ThotWave Technologies, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Data Mining, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-03-05
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