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- SAS Group Sees 20 Percent Faster Mobile Phone Performance and Enhances Security
- The SAS Group is evaluating new HTC Windows phones with Windows Mobile 6.5 to enhance communications for its flight crews. The increased responsiveness and easier navigation of the new user interface deliver up to 20 percent faster performance. Also, the ability to centrally manage Windows phones with Microsoft System Center...
- Tags: Security, Phone, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., SAS Group, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- 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
- Supply Chain Operations Outsourcing: A Strategic Approach to Creating Significant Economic Value
- The next generation of BPO is focused on outsourcing central supply chain processes as a strategic approach to creating significant economic value. The risks are manageable - and done properly, outsourcing sets organization free from tactical execution and provides competitive advantage. Service options managed by HAVI Global Solutions and SAS...
- Tags: Supply Chain, SAS Institute, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- 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
- The Platform for SAS Business Analytics as a Centrally Managed Service
- Organizations that employ the Software as a Service model are looking to reduce the overall costs in supporting their "Customers." In the government sector, an Information Technology organization may be responsible for providing data integration, business intelligence, or analytic applications to several consuming agencies. A standardized set of hardware and...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Analytics, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management
- White papers 2009-03-17
- Maximizing the Performance of Your SAS Solution: Case Studies in Web Application Server Tuning for N-Tier SAS Applications
- Are there changes one could make in the Java Web Application Server that would make the SAS solution more responsive, more robust, or able to handle a larger client load? This paper highlights the settings that are most likely to affect the smooth functioning of the SAS solution and explains...
- Tags: Web Application Server, Performance, Application Server, Web Application, SAS Institute, Server, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-03-10
- 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
- More Tips and Tricks for Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way With SAS
- Transferring SAS data and analytical results between SAS and Microsoft Excel can be difficult, especially when SAS is not installed on a Windows platform. This paper explains how to use the XML support in Base SAS9 software to create multi-sheet Microsoft Excel workbooks (for Excel versions 2002 and later). One...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
- So, You've Got Data Enterprise Wide (SAS, ACCESS, EXCEL, MySQL, and Others); Well, Let SAS Enterprise Guide Software Point-N-Click Your Way to Using It
- This paper will walk a SAS user through the process of opening and using files from different not SAS generated sources and processing the data with SAS Enterprise Guide. The focus of this paper will be to get access to the data, since most functions available to SAS Enterprise Guide...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Access, MySQL, SAS Institute, Microsoft Excel
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Evolution of the Investigator Satisfaction Ranking Report: The Advantage of Using the "PROC REPORT Procedure/ODS Excel" Versus a "CROSSTAB Output" or "CROSSTAB/ODS Excel"
- This paper describes the evolution of the SAS programming of a report used in employee evaluations by a government agency. The data is taken from a survey seeking customers' opinion of the service they received from the agency. The author entered the data into a SAS dataset and developed a...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
- 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
- Tips and Techniques for Analytic Web Services
- SAS BI Web services enable SAS programmers to write analytical routines and make them available to other applications through an open standard interface. When one creates a SAS program to be used in a Web service, one can use some techniques that make the SAS code easier to write and...
- Tags: Technique, Web, Web Service, SAS Institute, Productivity, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- 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
- Integrating SAS Business Intelligence With Microsoft SharePoint
- Because of the increased interest and deployment of Microsoft SharePoint, the need to integrate SAS Business Intelligence technologies with SharePoint has also risen. This paper describes a variety of approaches to integrating the two technologies, such as using SharePoint document libraries to store content produced by SAS, including SAS output...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Microsoft SharePoint, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
- "Min Logistikk" - Using SAS BI Web Services in a Service Oriented Architecture at Norway Post Delivering Information Securely to Customers on Extranet
- This paper describes the systems architecture of one the reporting solutions that were developed through the program "IKT Plattform 2005-2006" at Norway Post. One important requirement for this solution was to deliver information securely from the internal data warehouse of Norway Post to business customers on extranet. Avenir AS got...
- Tags: Web Service, SAS Institute, SOA, Extranet, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- 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
- Creating Your Own Worksheet Formats in ExportToXL
- %exportToXL is a freely available SAS R macro which allows the user to create custom-formatted Excel R worksheets, using Dynamic Data Exchange DDE. It works on all versions of PC Base SAS, Windows, and Excel. Using this macro, the user can create custom-formatted worksheets by either exporting the SAS data...
- Tags: SAS Institute, %exportToXL, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- 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 Analytic Services With SAS Business Intelligence
- The rapid rise of the Internet has caused successive waves of change through the information industry. One of the latest overarching concepts is known as Service-oriented Architecture. Web services are one popular technology for creating a Service-oriented Architecture. This paper shows how one can use SAS BI Web Services to...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Web Service, SAS Institute, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-02-27
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