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Useful by Association: Adding Practical Value by Analyzing SAS 9 Data Integration Metadata

SAS 9 has an incredibly rich metadata model, but the documentation can be very daunting! This paper will explain the practical use of Associations and Attributes in the metadata to extract, analyze, and report this valuable resource using SAS DATA step programming. Starting from simple techniques such as listing all...

Tags: SAS Institute, Data Integration, SAS 9

White papers 2009-02-27

SAS 9 Empowers Codan, a Leading Scandinavian Insurer, to Cut Costs and Improve Profitability

Codan is one of Scandinavia's most successful insurance companies, with annual revenues of approximately DKK 19.3 billion (?2.6 billion, US$3.3 billion). The challenge was to control costs, build profits, enhance data management and improve customer retention. Codan deployed SAS to provide analytic means for more strategic decision making, which allows...

Tags: SAS Institute, SAS 9, Codan

Case studies 2009-01-01

Best Practices in SAS 9 Security Configurations

SAS 9 provides many enhancements in the area of single sign-on technology. This paper presents several best-practice configurations for systems that are based on Windows and systems that are based on other operating systems. These configurations maximize the use of single sign-on technology and minimize the necessity to store and...

Tags: SAS Institute, Best Practice, Single Sign-on, Security Configuration, SAS 9, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers 2008-04-02

SAS9 on the IBM System Z Mainframe: The Path to Mainframe Modernization That Preserves Your Application Investment

SAS 9 is the result of a multi-year project to revise and extend SAS architecture to meet the demands of enterprise-class applications and solutions. As a result of this project, SAS offers its customers the SAS Business Intelligence BI Architecture. This paper focuses on the role of the mainframe in...

Tags: Investment, SAS Institute, IBM Corp., SAS 9, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-04-02

Beyond Business Intelligence: SAS 9 Redefines the Possibilities

SAS 9 expands the definition of business intelligence, enabling enterprises to break through to a higher level of understanding, beyond the hindsight offered by traditional BI tools. SAS 9 is the only BI software that delivers advantages like expanded access throughout the organization to legendary SAS analytics, for understanding an...

Tags: SAS Institute, SAS 9, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2004-03-01

Additional Resources

Pliant talks up lower energy consumption, cost savings of its new enterprise flash technology

Start-up storage vendor Pliant Technology has begun shipping a new class of enterprise flash drives to OEMs for evaluation and qualification that should become available in commercial format by the end of September 2009. The technology, called Lightning, is a cache-less enterprise flash format that is designed...

Tags: High-performance Computing, Cost Savings, Watt, Cloud Computing, Storage, Leadership, Hardware, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'

Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Papercuts? More like deep stab wounds that require major surgery.You can't polish a turd. It still has linux underneath it. The problem is there is no fixing linux. Its inner workings of being a mesh of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Delvinia Delivers Customer Insight in Half the Time With SAS

Delvinia Interactive, based in Toronto, is a Canadian pioneer in the digital marketing space. The challenge was to combine and analyzing massive amounts of customer behavior data in order to provide clients with digital customer experience-related insights about their customers. Delvinia Interactive Using SAS 9.2, SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS...

Tags: SAS Institute, Delvinia

Case studies 2009-06-01

BBM Canada Improves Forecasting Accuracy, Saves Costs With SAS

BBM Canada, founded in 1944 as the not-for-profit Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, conducts audience research across the country to provide this information to its members, who include television and radio stations and networks, advertising agencies and advertisers. The challenge was to provide accurate audience data on millions of Canadian households...

Tags: Radio, SAS Institute, TV, Forecasting, BBM Canada, Sales Force Management, Sales

Case studies 2009-06-01

SAS Helps Royal Bank of Canada Avoid $15 Million in Credit Fraud Losses

According to a Government of Canada report, the Canadian banking industry estimates that losses from mortgage fraud range into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The challenge was that Royal Bank of Canada RBC wanted a way to reduce losses by detecting fraudulent mortgages, loans and credit lines before...

Tags: SAS Institute, Royal Bank Of Canada

Case studies 2009-06-01

Improving SAS I/O Throughput by Avoiding the Operating System File Cache

SAS I/O processing (the reading and writing of SAS data files - data sets, catalogs, index files, and so on) is done by default via the UNIX or Windows operating system's file cache. When accessing SAS data files in the multi-gigabyte range, overall system I/O throughput can be negatively affected....

Tags: Operating System, I/O, SAS Institute

White papers 2009-04-17

z/OS SAS Deployment: This Isn't Your Father's Install Anymore!

In SAS 9.2, the deployment process is very different from previous releases. Starting with SAS 9.2, the overall deployment process is now uniform across all host architectures. The purpose of this paper is to give one a basic understanding of the new deployment process with an emphasis on deployment to...

Tags: Deployment, SAS Institute, IBM z/OS, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-06

Test-Driving the Improvements to the INFOMAPS Procedure and LIBNAME Engine

SAS information maps provide a layer of metadata that describes the physical data structures in terms that business users can understand. The INFOMAPS procedure and LIBNAME engine, introduced in SAS 9.1, allow from Base SAS for the creation, modification, and deletion of information maps along with querying of the data...

Tags: SAS Institute, Information Map

White papers 2009-04-02

Best Practice: Optimizing the Cube Build Process in SAS 9.2

The loading and processing of the data into a cube needs to be controlled and optimized to get the best performance out of one's system and meet appropriate time window constraints that may be set by IT or the business user. The SAS OLAP Server 9.2 shows several performance improvements...

Tags: SAS Institute, Best Practice, SAS OLAP Server 9.2

White papers 2009-04-01

Branding SAS Web Applications for Your Enterprise

Integrating the appearance of SAS Web applications with the organization's brand is important to the acceptance of the new tools and information they provide. With the release of SAS 9.2, the SAS Theme Architecture provides a single point for the definition and deployment of the organization's brand across SAS Web...

Tags: Web Application, Branding, SAS Institute

White papers 2009-03-27

Using SAS 9.2 Metadata Security Reporting and Auditing Features

Generating reports of user access rights or knowing who has changed security on a resource are critical aspects of a secure computing environment. In SAS 9.1.3, the SAS Metadata Server played a central role in the security of SAS resources. However, there were no tools or reports provided to indicate...

Tags: Security, Auditing, SAS Institute

White papers 2009-03-20

Mainstreaming Web Data With SAS Web Analytics 5.3

All too often, Web site data stays inside the Web team. Granted, it is leveraged for useful endeavors such as understanding Web traffic, tracking online behavior, and improving site performance. However, in this multi-channel world, valuable customer insight is gained and marketing abilities are enhanced when Web site data is...

Tags: Web, SAS Institute, Channel Management, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2009-03-20

Group Sequential Analysis Using the New SEQDESIGN and SEQTEST Procedures

In a fixed-sample clinical trial, data on all individuals are analyzed at the end of the study. In contrast, a group sequential trial provides for interim analyses before completion of the trial. Thus, a group sequential trial is useful for preventing unnecessary exposure of patients to an unsafe new drug...

Tags: Procedure, SAS Institute, Analysis

White papers 2009-03-19

Dynamic Prompts Make Data Cascading Easy: Introducing New Features in SAS 9.2 Prompt Framework

The SAS 9.2 prompt framework provides a consistent and easy user interface for creating prompts that can be used across applications and platforms. The prompt framework is available across all desktop and Web clients in the platform for SAS Business Analytics. A new feature in SAS 9.2, dynamic cascading prompts,...

Tags: SAS Institute, Prompt

White papers 2009-03-13

Migrating a SAS Deployment to Microsoft Windows for x64

Many customers want to take advantage of 64-bit hardware for metadata-based SAS 9 deployments. These deployments contain Business Intelligence, Data Integration, or Solution products with metadata that is stored by a SAS Metadata Server in a SAS Metadata Repository. This paper discusses the migration of such deployments from 32-bit SAS...

Tags: Window, SAS Institute, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

White papers 2009-03-09