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- The Forrester Waveâ„¢: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008.
- In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence BI platform vendors, SAS moved into a leadership position in enterprise BI, thanks to rich functionality, ability to scale, and the completeness of corporate and product vision and strategy. This paper describes how BI tools and technologies have moved far beyond simple...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Forrester Research Inc., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Top Ten SAS DBMS Performance Boosters for 2009
- It has been debated that performance and portability are orthogonal. The author feels that the point where these two cross can be shown on a graph with software and/or usage techniques that are portable in nature. For example, some of the options discussed are global to SAS and can be...
- Tags: Performance, DBMS, SAS Institute, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-03-18
- Data Mining in the Insurance Industry: Solving Business Problems Using SAS Enterprise Miner Software
- Data mining can be defined as the process of selecting, exploring and modeling large amounts of data to uncover previously unknown patterns. In the insurance industry, data mining can help firms gain business advantage. For example, by applying data mining techniques, companies can fully exploit data about customers' buying patterns...
- Tags: Industry, SAS Institute, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Insurance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Custom Calculations Are a Snap When Using MDX and OLAP
- 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 MDX is the foundation of v9 SAS cubes and is responsible for the increased flexibility and...
- Tags: OLAP, Snap, SAS Institute, Zencos, Custom Calculation, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Exploring the Undocumented PROC SQL_METHOD Option
- The SQL Procedure contains many powerful and elegant language features for SQL users to take advantage of. This paper explores the _METHOD option as an applications development and tuning tool. Attendees will learn how to use this undocumented and powerful option to better understand and control how a query processes.
- Tags: SAS Institute, SQL, Option, SQL Procedure, Programming Languages, Software Development, Databases, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- You Need to Consolidate Massive Amounts of Data?: Select the Fastest Method or Go for Minimal Memory Requirements to Build Your Result
- Most applications require consolidated data. With the ever growing volumes of data, CPU time becomes a bottleneck, and performance becomes vital. The most common way to consolidate data is the MEANS or SUMMARY procedure; database addicts prefer the Structured Query Language SQL procedure. These procedures, although very powerful and easy,...
- Tags: Procedure, SAS Institute, CPU, Processors, Databases, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Implementing a BI Reporting Environment - Making Dashboards More OLAP Friendly
- The Credit Corp reporting environment is used on a daily basis by the management team to track performance at all levels of the business. Taking advantage of SAS Enterprise BI Server (in particular SAS BI dashboards, SAS OLAP Server, and SAS Web Report Studio), users are able to get a...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, OLAP, Environment, SAS Institute, Dashboard, Pricing, Data Mining, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Let SQL Write SQL Scripts for You - Counts Report
- PROC SQL is a very powerful tool that can be used to easily build SQL scripts. Script-building can be used to produce useful detailed SAS dataset information. The output explained in this paper will produce a counts report which shows a list of variables with the total number of non-null...
- Tags: SAS Institute, SQL, PROC SQL, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Building a Data Repository Using Base SAS
- Monitoring Analytics, LLC, MA, provides independent market monitoring services to PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. MA uses PJM electricity market data drawn from nearly all of PJM's data stores and other external data sources. Rather than have MMU analysts query production databases directly, the MMU implemented and maintains the Market Monitoring System,...
- Tags: MMS, Monitoring, SAS Institute, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Databases, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Using SAS OLAP Server for a ROLAP Scenario
- SAS offers a flexible Online Analytical Processing OLAP solution, not only allowing users to choose a Multidimensional OLAP MOLAP approach, but also a Relational OLAP ROLAP solution. With the latter approach, the SAS OLAP Server accesses data stored within relational database management systems directly. A ROLAP approach reduces cube build...
- Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, Server, RDBMS, OLAP Server, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- SAS as SaaS - The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing an Enterprise Scale SAS Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Shared Service
- Many organizations recognize the benefits that can be achieved through the Software as a Service SaaS model. Why not apply this model to one's SAS data warehousing and business intelligence strategy? Organizations can save money and improve service levels through efficiencies gained by a shared infrastructure and support staff. These...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Software-as-a-service, Benefit, SAS Institute, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Manipulating OLAP Cubes: Advanced Techniques for SAS Programmers
- As the amount of data that is captured electronically increases exponentially, more and more organizations are turning to OLAP Cubes as a way to surface data in a meaningful way. OLAP, or Online Analytical Processing, provides a multi-dimensional view of aggregated data. It provides quick and easy access to facts,...
- Tags: Technique, OLAP, SAS Institute, Programmer, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- The SAS OLAP Server: Understanding and Solving Common Problems
- The SAS OLAP Server is a complex and powerful tool that is used for storing and exploiting multidimensional data. Because using complex tools can present complex challenges, one need solutions that simplify the use of the SAS OLAP Server and increase operational reliability. This paper provides information intended to empower...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Server, OLAP Server, SAS OLAP Server, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Using SAS to Build the Managed Care Data Warehouse at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
- Community Care Behavioral Health Organization Community Care needed to increase the sophistication of its ability to manage, analyze and report data in order to support organizational improvement and to accommodate its rapid growth. Improving efficiencies in summarizing and displaying decision support data to company management was also vital. To accomplish...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, SAS Institute, Health Care, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Linear Models and Conjoint Analysis With Nonlinear Spline Transformations
- Many common data analysis models are based on the general linear univariate model, including linear regression, analysis of variance, and conjoint analysis. This paper discusses the general linear model in a framework that allows nonlinear transformations of the variables. The paper shows how to evaluate the effect of each transformation....
- Tags: Data Analysis, Transformation, SAS Institute, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-03
- Teaching Data Mining: The University of Alabama and SAS
- The University of Alabama UA and SAS developed a partnership whereby students who complete a sequence of four graduate-level courses can receive a joint Data Mining Certificate from UA and SAS. Recently, the opportunity to earn this certificate has been made available to MBA students as well. This paper will...
- Tags: SAS Institute, University Of Alabama, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-12-04
- Benchmark Report for SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence 9.1.3 on HP Integrity Servers
- Enterprise customers demand a reliable platform that can scale to meet their business intelligence requirements. This report details a proof point for SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence that demonstrates support for up to 3,000 concurrent users on HP Integrity servers and storage. The testing, performed by both HP and SAS, shows...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Benchmark Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, Server, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Integrating Your Favorite SAS Program Into a SAS Data Mining Workbench
- This white paper addresses how a data mining workbench can access raw data and interactively create a data mining process flow. These data mining processes can be saved as batch code and scheduled for execution according to company policies for deployment. The visual display of the overall data mining process...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Research & Development, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-12-01
- 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
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