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Identifying Complications and Overcoming Problems Using SAS Enterprise BI Server

The Open University in the United Kingdom has been involved in analysing, designing, and implementing a data warehouse system. There is nothing unusual about such a project, but the university had no exposure to the SAS9 suite of tools and has come across many problems and issues during the project...

Tags: SAS Institute, Server, SAS Enterprise BI Server

White papers 2009-02-27

SAS Enterprise BI Server With HP VSE Study: Demonstrated SAS Enterprise BI Server With vPars/WLM/iCAP on an HP Integrity rx8620 Server

This white paper demonstrates how the IT organization at a SAS customer site can benefit from Hewlett-Packard's Virtual Server Environment VSE technology to achieve optimization on server utilization. Through the VSE technology, resources can automatically grow and shrink based on the service-level objectives set for each application. The flexibility offers...

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, SAS Enterprise BI Server, Server Virtualization, Ip storage, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization

White papers 2007-11-01

Performance Brief for SAS Enterprise BI Server 9.1.3 on HP Integrity Servers, Microsoft Windows and HP StorageWorks EVA Storage: 300 User Enterprise BI Server Test Suite

This paper highlights the key findings from running the SAS Enterprise BI Server architecture using the 300 user test suite running on Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers, HP BladeSystem servers and an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array EVA storage system. This test showcased the SAS backend servers running on...

Tags: Business Intelligence, HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, HP StorageWorks, Window, Storage, SAS Institute, Microsoft Windows, SAS Enterprise BI Server, Microsoft Corp., Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-01

Performance Brief for SAS Enterprise BI Server 9.1.3 on HP Integrity Servers, Microsoft Windows and HP StorageWorks EVA Storage: 1000 User Enterprise BI Server Test Suite

Enterprise customers demand a reliable Business Intelligence platform that can scale to meet their business requirements. This paper details a proof point demonstrating a robust 1000 user SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Enterprise BI workload being executed on powerful HP servers and storage. The testing performed by both HP and SAS...

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, HP StorageWorks, Window, Storage, SAS Institute, Server, Microsoft Windows, SAS Enterprise BI Server, Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2007-11-01

SAS Enterprise BI Server Integration With Microsoft Office

End users often want to use Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications to analyze, view, or present data. However, this approach can result in multiple versions of the truth or introduce errors, because the data is entered manually, or incorrect formulas or analyses are used. A key component of...

Tags: Microsoft Office, SAS Institute, Server, SAS Enterprise BI Server, Microsoft Corp., Integration

White papers 2007-05-14

"Ins" and "Outs" of Installing and Configuring the SAS Enterprise BI Server at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Minnesota

This paper discusses the implementation of SAS Enterprise BI Server at BlueCross BlueShield of Minnesota BCBSM. It provides an overview of the hardware and software architecture and the deployment of SAS Enterprise BI Server within a mature enterprise-wide and external web-facing infrastructure in a multi-tier UNIX environment. The paper also...

Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, SAS Institute, Server, SAS Enterprise BI Server

White papers 2007-05-14

N.C. Central University Selects SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS ETL Server

As North Carolina Central University NCCU rapidly grows in size and stature, the number of time-consuming, ad hoc requests for information has increased dramatically, and the university needed to find a way to quickly and accurately retrieve, analyze and transform data via the Web so their university leaders who depend...

Tags: SAS Institute, Server, SAS Enterprise BI Server, North Carolina Central University

Case studies

Focus on SAS Enterprise BI Server

Nowadays lightning-fast business environment demands that organizations continuously search for the tools they need to drive themselves forward. SAS Enterprise BI Server includes both a suite of powerful business intelligence tools and complete integrated business intelligence architecture to provide fast, simple access to consistent data for a more accurate picture...

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

Webcasts

BI Imperative Web Seminar - Focus on SAS Enterprise BI Server

Extend the capabilities of SAS Enterprise BI Server and reveal the many facets of the data - with fast, easy access to multiple data sources, consistent and credible reporting, simple deployment of information for all user levels, and accurate, reliable insights. This webcast demos upcoming SAS Enterprise BI Server enhancements...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Web, SAS Institute, Server, SAS Enterprise BI Server

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Enhancing Sales and Operations Planning With Forecasting Analytics and Business Intelligence

Since the unconstrained demand forecast is such an important part of an organization's S&OP process, it should be based to a large extent on statistical techniques as opposed to judgmental techniques. Many organizations develop demand forecasts utilizing a group's product knowledge as the primary driver. When used as part of...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Technique, SAS Institute, Sales, Forecasting, Productivity

White papers 2009-08-01

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

ComSuper Turns to SAS for Quality-Assured Business Intelligence

ComSuper, in Australia's capital city of Canberra, is responsible for administering a number of superannuation schemes for public service employees and Australian Defence Force personnel. The challenge was that generation of information through process was labour intensive and often dependent on the availability of specific subject matter expertise. This situation...

Tags: SAS Institute, ComSuper

Case studies 2009-05-01

Cigna Healthcare Improves Medical Management With SAS

Healthcare informatics is much more than simply managing claims data - it is a catalyst for improving individuals' health and costs. A health service company's ability to process, analyze and act on data is vital to helping engage members to effectively and efficiently optimize their healthcare options. The challenge was...

Tags: CIGNA Corp., SAS Institute, Health Care, Cigna Healthcare, Healthcare Informatic, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-03-01

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

Using SAS to Manage, Monitor, and Control the SAS BI Server: User-Developed Custom Tools for the SAS Server Administrator, User, or Manager

Who is using SAS now and how much CPU time and memory? Since when? When is the last time each user was on the server? How heavily does each use the server in terms of frequency or CPU time? What processes does the author himself have running? The author has...

Tags: Monitor, Server Administrator, SAS Institute, Server, Tool

White papers 2009-02-27

Performance Report for SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence on HP Integrity Virtual Machines

This paper describes the results of a joint SAS/HP project to implement a multi-tier distributed SAS environment and run the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence EBI Small Benchmark Test Suite on a single virtualized HP-UX Integrity server. Virtualization via HP Integrity Virtual Machines was shown to be a stable platform for...

Tags: Business Intelligence, HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, SAS Institute, Virtual Machine

White papers 2008-09-01

Betting on the Dice: Giving Customers What They Want With the Help of Analytics

Established in 1980, Resorts World Berhad RWB is one of the largest listed companies in Malaysia with a market capitalization of about MYR 21.87 billion (US$6.28 billion). The challenge was to obtain timely, relevant and consolidated information to gain new customer insights in order to create better marketing campaigns and...

Tags: Analytics, SAS Institute

Case studies 2008-07-01

What's New in the 4.2 Releases of SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

SAS Enterprise Guide, the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office for SAS 9.2, and SAS Enterprise BI Server 4.2 provide many new enhancements to help SAS programmers, business analysts, and other business users become more productive with SAS. This presentation will introduce the user to some of the highlights, including a...

Tags: Microsoft Office, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp.

White papers 2008-03-13

Using SAS and Microsoft Office to Deliver Organizational Metrics

Email is an effective means of pushing critical metrics into the hands of key decision makers. An organization's ability to get value, and knowledge, from these metrics could be the difference between just surviving and thriving. Utilizing SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Stored Processes, and the SAS...

Tags: Microsoft Office, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp.

White papers 2008-03-13

SAS Data Integration Server Performance on IBM Mainframe Running z/OS

SAS and IBM have begun a series of performance test efforts of SAS products on z/OS. The SAS Data Integration benchmarking scenario results highlighted in this paper. The SAS Data Integration benchmark scenario provides several retail-based tests and data that simulate real-world customer ETL processes. The test executed on z/OS...

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Performance, Mainframe, SAS Institute, IBM z/OS, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware

White papers 2008-03-05