Metacoda’s Paul Homes recently wrote a most informative article entitled Providing User Access to the SAS BI Lineage Plug-in. As Paul says in his article, the BI Lineage plug-in can be used to do impact analysis for BI content (reports, informatio…
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NOTE: Reporting Horizontally (WRS tabs)
I recently spotted a neat tip from Tricia Aanderud on the BI Notes blog. In the article Web Report Studio: Switch Report Sections to Tabs in Snap! Tricia provides us all with a reminder of the ability to create tabs in our Web Report Studio reports a…
NOTE: Adding Value to Your Metadata with Metacoda Commutual
I’m always glad to meet-up with the folks from Metacoda when I attend SAS Global Forum. They always have something new and valuable to show. Historically it’s always been new features for their Metacoda Security Plug-Ins, but this year they were keen…
NOTE: Getting Social With SAS Metadata
I noticed a most intriguing post on Paul Homes’s Platform Admin blog recently. Do you and your colleagues discuss your metadata often? Paul thinks you should, and I’m inclined to agree.
This isn’t a new or unique idea. SAS were talking about a coll…
NOTE: Clean Your Cubes
It’s not spring-time, but it’s still worth giving a thought to the cleanliness of your environment, for the benefit of reducing complexity and of reducing space usage. Angela Hall posted a great article about Cleaner OLAP Cube Physical Folder Structu…
Whatever You Call It, It’s All About People First
Achieve Intelligence (AI) just published its latest monthly news article. AI’s monthly publications are all themed on building your Business Intelligence (BI) strategy. This month’s publication is entitled “Capability Improvement – The Three P’s”…
NOTE: True Self-Service BI With Futrix
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve featured a couple of 3rd-party SAS-related products (Metacoda security plug-ins and Phil Holland’s Ebook/apps). I’ve said how much I support 3rd-party products. So, I couldn’t let this unintentional mini-series end …
NOTE: BI Testing
I recently spotted a valuable posting from SAS’s Angela Hall on her Real BI for Real Users blog. I hesitate to suggest it was valuable because that implies her other posts are of less value! Not true, but this particular article was titled Testing reco…