SAS BI Training Online

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He would like to provide SAS BI training online for a fee...He would provide SAS BI material and Lab access online...
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Duration: 45-50 hours

Course Content:
Business User Reporting Applications

Use the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office.
Use SAS Web Report Studio.
Use SAS Information Delivery Portal.
Advanced Reporting Techniques and Roles

Modify an existing SAS Information Map.
Create a New SAS BI Dashboard Indicator.
Create data sources for reporting and analysis.
Interpret permissions and file structures defined in metadata by the platform administrator.
Creating Information Maps

Utilize different data sources.
Use filters and the prompting framework to dynamically subset data.
Create prefilters to subset the information map data.
Building a SAS BI Dashboard Application

Build SAS BI Dashboard Components.
Build advanced SAS BI Dashboard Components.
Building Stored Processes

Create a stored process from a SAS Enterprise Guide Project.
Create a stored process from a SAS Program.
Add prompts to a stored process.
Create a stored process to provide a dynamic data source.
Define the macro variables generated for each prompt type.
Utilizing Advanced Techniques with SAS Reports

Build advanced reports with SAS Web Report Studio.
Create and use SAS report templates.
Link reports in SAS Web Report Studio.
Schedule and distributing SAS Reports.
Build SAS reports with SAS Enterprise Guide.
Create shared prompts.
Utilizing Multidimensional (OLAP) Data Sources

Apply Online Analytical Processing concepts.
Build an OLAP cube with SAS OLAP Cube Studio.
Build an information map from a SAS OLAP Cube.
The Environment Metadata

Describe the metadata created and used by the SAS Platform.

View SAS datasets / code without installing SAS on your system with SAS Universal Viewer Application

The SAS Universal Viewer (Download here) is a replacement for the SAS System Viewer and is an application for the Windows environment to view SAS data sets and other simple text-based files. You cannot edit SAS data sets with the SAS Universal Viewer, but you can sort and filter data sets. The SAS Universal Viewer enables you to view the contents of SAS data sets without invoking SAS and without installing SAS on your machine.

With the SAS Universal Viewer you can view the following files:

• SAS data sets
• SAS v9 transport files
• text files, including .sas, .txt. log, and so on
• .html and other file types that open in Internet Explorer
• SAS data sets that were created on platforms other than Windows

And also You can rearrange your view of the data in the following ways:

• sort your view of a SAS data set by column
• subset the data by using a WHERE clause
• resize columns
• copy data elements to the clipboard
• find text in a SAS data set by using expressions to filter rows and columns

It’s nice tool to have If you want to introduce someone to the SAS Software and/or view the dataset / files without invoking SAS….

After downloading please double-click on setup.exe and install…It would install 3 items – Java JRE, SAS OLEDB provider and SAS Universal viewer in couple of minutes…

Screen Shot of a dataset opened with SAS Universal viewer

Screen Shot of a SAS Program opened with SAS Universal viewer

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SAS Analytics Delivered to iPhone...

• Deliver SAS Reports and Data to Mobile Users
• User Friendly Interface for Parameter Selection without Programming
• Capture Real Time Data from SAS Directly from your iPhone
• Intuitive Web Interface for Administrators and Power Users
• Deliver Powerful Business Intelligence to iPhone®

Any SAS macros, programs or data can be delivered to iPhone. By simply registering the programs or SAS libraries, you can make this available to specified users who connect via standard 3G or Wifi network and results are delivered into a viewer on iPhone. This is executed in real time so the user gets always the latest data.

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Introduction to SAS

The SAS System known well as Statistical Analysis System, is one of the most widely used, flexible data processing, reporting and analyses tools.

SAS is a set of solutions for enterprise-wide business users as well as a powerful fourth-generation programming language for performing tasks or analyses in a variety of realms such as these:

Analytic Intelligence

General
Data Mining and Statistical Analysis
Forecasting & Econometrics
Operations Research
Quality Improvement

Business Intelligence 
General
Applications Development
Content Delivery
Query and Reporting

Data Warehousing 

General
ETL & Data Quality
Warehouse Management

The core of the SAS System is Base SAS software, which consists of the following:

• SAS language a programming language that you use to manage your data.
• SAS procedures software tools for data analysis and reporting.
• macro facility a tool for extending and customizing SAS software programs and for reducing text in your programs.
• DATA step debugger a programming tool that helps you find logic problems in DATA step programs.
• Output Delivery System (ODS) a system that delivers output in a variety of easy-to-access formats, such as SAS data sets, listing files, or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
• SAS windowing environment an interactive, graphical user interface that enables you to easily run and test your SAS programs.

(Source: SAS.Com)

With Base SAS software as the foundation, you can integrate with SAS many SAS business solutions that enable you to perform large scale business functions, such as data warehousing and data mining, human resources management and decision support, financial management and decision support, and others.

What is SAS?

The SAS BI Software

The SAS BI System is an integrated suite of software for enterprise-wide information delivery… Applications of the SAS System include executive information systems; data entry, retrieval, and management; report writing and graphics; statistical and mathematical analysis; business planning, forecasting, and decision support; operations research and project management; statistical quality improvement; computer performance evaluation; and applications development.

About SAS Institute

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

About SAS on Wikipedia 

SAS is one of the Top companies to Work for…

Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

 

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