Tag: Building Business Intelligence

Stored Process Outputs Data without a Report

You can do more with SAS Stored Processes than just create reports.  These little suckers are packed full of power and the only limit is your imagination (and libraries where you  have write access!)  In this post, you will learn how to use a store…

SAS BI: Sample Data for Facial Recognition and UFOs

Oh my goodness … Christmas has come early children! You must have been extra good this year because look what all I have found!  A few times before I have discussed where to find SAS sample data sources and even how to create your own sample …

SAS OLAP Cube Studio 9.3: New screen layouts

I installed the updated SAS Business Intelligence package (version 9.3), but mostly I have been playing with the stored process interface where there were some major changes (more about that in future posts).  This morning I opened SAS OLAP Cube Studi…

Boo! Scary charts in honor of All Hallows Eve

In the United States today is the scariest day of the year – All Hallows Eve. Tonight school children will run around dressed as monsters or Angry Birds demanding a treat from their neighbors.  So here some treats for the SAS Business Intelligen…

SAS Portal: How to Follow Tweets …

SAS Information Delivery Portal allows you to add syndicated channels (RSS feeds) to your site. There are several ways to exploit this ability. You might want to add a blog (ahem, bi-notes.com) or just have access to the latest tweets.  I’ve use…

Web Report Studio: I need a better date than this one …

In Web Report Studio, I was trying to create a bar chart that showed the total payments by month. However, the Payment Date was the actual date the company received the payment and as a result the chart had a “play-by-play” action instead o…

Where can I Find Sample Stored Processes?

If you are just getting started with SAS stored processes, you might find the sample stored processes shipped with the SAS BI tool useful for learning some quick techniques.  Here’s how to access the samples and a trial run. You can access the sampl…

Info Map: Use SAS Functions to get dates – oh yeah

You can use the Expression Editor and some SAS functions to create new data items from existing data items.  Here’s how to create some common Date data items.  SAS functions make it easy to perform actions and all you need is a variable and som…