Software’s strength depends on the cohesion of the community backing it. Though a commercial package comes with technique support guarantee, the speed and efficiency of telephone wired customer service may not suit the fast-evolving programming need….
Enterprise Guide 4.3, Making it work with SAS Internal Userid’s
Had an interesting experience with the new SAS 9.2 environment at a customer site. We have got SAS 9.2 (actually SAS Grid but thats irrelevant for this post) installed on RedHat 5 Linux. As we are using Linux and not Windows we lose the standard integration with Active Directory. We didn’t want to implement PAM integration with AD (mainly because nobody can articulate clearly all […]
Q&A Resources for SAS® Software
In addition to SAS Technical Support, there are a number of community support resources available for SAS users too. I have compiled a list below of the sites I know of that use a Q&A or discussion format where SAS users and platform administrators can post questions and review or provide answers. SAS Discussion Forums: […]
Consolidating various resources
There are a lot of resources out there for SAS BI/EBI users and it spans a wide range of locations. The more we research the more we agree that having a single book for the BI client tools will help new users getting started with the system.
Here is a…
PowerPoint: A Cautionary Tale
With SGF 2011 fast approaching, I’m sure I’m not the only speaker hard at work preparing my PowerPoint presentations. I can remember the old days when speakers brought actual slide trays full of film slides. I don’t miss the expense of those slides or the amount of room they took in my suitcase, and it […]
Authorization Manager Plug-in and Custom Metadata Permissions
Something I’ve only noticed recently, which I haven’t seen in the SAS® 9.2 What’s New documentation, is an apparent change relating to support for custom, or user-defined, metadata permissions in the SAS Management Console Authorization Manager plug-in. I hadn’t noticed this change before because I’ve not yet had a need for custom metadata permissions myself. […]