So over the last 12 months the ranking for post views looked like (according to wordpress site stats, rather than google analytics): Post Views Home page 11,532 SAS BI Clients 4.3 and SAS 9.3 673 SAS EG 4.3 is here (but its hiding with Elvis) 533 SAS Articles 508 SAS Portlets for Sale 380 Making […]
Reporting Principles – TOGAF
On one of the projects we have been working on we were required to define some reporting principals using the TOGAF style. I had never used this style/methodology before, but found it great as it forced us to focus on describing these principles in a very succinct (saasinct way. We also found there was a wealth […]
10 tips for building a successful team or users group
Each time I attend a users group event, I’m amazed at the high caliber event that can be acommplished by volunteers in their spare time. I learned during a NESUG panel discussion that finding and motivating those volunteers may sometimes be diffic…
CRM technologies
As we begin to add posts in 2011, we stepped back to look at our business and our blog. We realized that the two are perfectly aligned. Although the majority of our focus is within the SAS product suite, our focus is marketing analytics and operations. Given that, it is time for us to expand […]
Uninstalling SAS 9.2 on Windows – Be Gone Damn Spot!
If you have the pleasure of installing SAS on a Windows server and then trying to uninstall and reinstall it multiple times, you will know that the uninstall process is time consuming and painful. You have to go through the standard windows add/remove programs process for each SAS component/product, or restore a clean copy of […]
NOTE: Using the ANY and ALL Operators in PROC SQL
Let me put my cards on the table before we start: I had never heard of the ANY and ALL operators in PROC SQL before I spotted David Shannon’s tweet this evening. The ANY and ALL operators are PROC SQL operators which can be used to compare the result o…