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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- White papers 2009-04-02
- Webinar Series: Applying Business Analytics--Transform your business
- Tune into this Applying Business Analytics Webinar series to learn how the SAS® Business Analytics Framework can help can help you transform the way you do business. You'll dive deep into best practices for: Integrating data to improve data quality and consistency throughout the organization ...
- Webcasts 2009-04-01
- Real Analytics for Real Business
- Savvy organizations are strategically applying analytics to their daily operations to outthink and outperform the competition. This Computerworld technology briefing illustrates how CIOs and their teams have a vital role to play in understanding the data needed for informed decision making - and establishing an analytical IT architecture with the...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- 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...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- SAS® Business Intelligence Interactive Tour
- This fully interactive, self-guided video tour offers both business and IT leaders the chance to see how SAS® Business Intelligence can help them to improve business processes and make the best decisions possible. You'll learn about the advantages and benefits of using this solution, and the distinct features and capabilities...
- Presentations 2009-04-01
- SAS Tile Charts: Thousands of Business Tips With One Click
- The ever-growing complexity, increasing size, and increasing availability of business information make getting to the critical issues a major challenge. As such, one can either add 100 or so "Executive dashboard" links using the Web browser or, maybe one wants to consider a well-organized SAS tile chart to grab and...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- 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...
- 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...
- White papers 2009-03-27
- Memo to Google & Amazon: Ã¢â‚¬ËśCloud Computing’ Really Is Time-Sharing. Next: Will Punch Cards Make A Comeback?
- SAS, the North Carolina supplier of business analytics software, last week got a lot of attention from its announcement that it was spending $70 million to construct a “cloud computing’ facility. Chief executive Jim Goodnight, one this nation’s billionaire software magnates, though, was having a bit of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- SAS on SaaS: This Makes Sense … For The Vendor
- Whether business analytics or what SAS considers a lesser technology, business intelligence, will find fortune time-sharing-cum-cloud-computing remains to be seen. A ZDNet report even cited a piece of research from Forrester that indicated business intelligence software would have “minimal success’’ operated as a service in the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BISaas BI Hi,I agree on the problems of moving Business Intelligence towards an On Demand model. It is not as easy as creating an On Demand CRM, but data integration and modelling problems can be solved we have solved them. I'm glad...
- Discussion threads 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...
- White papers 2009-03-20
- 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...
- White papers 2009-03-20
- Have It Your Way: Rearrange and Replay Your Output With ODS DOCUMENT
- Is everything about the SAS output the way one wants, except for the final order of the report objects? Does one want the output organized by year or by city, instead of by SAS procedure, without using SAS macro programs? Does one like the order that SAS produces, but one...
- White papers 2009-03-20
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
- SAS is planning to spend $70 million on a cloud computing facility at its Cary, N.C. headquarters as it expands its on-demand offerings. SAS seems to be making a big bet on business intelligence software in the cloud, a concept that isn't expected to get a lot of traction.Ă‚Â ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- 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...
- White papers 2009-03-19
- 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...
- White papers 2009-03-18
- MERGING Vs. JOINING: Comparing the DATA Step With SQL
- Which merges files better: the SAS DATA Step or SAS SQL? Traditionally, the only way to merge files in SAS was via the SAS DATA Step. Now SAS provides a Structured Query Language SQL facility which also merges files. This paper compares and contrasts these two merge facilities. It examines...
- White papers 2009-03-18
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