Tag: SAS BI Book

SAS Talks Backstage Sneak Peek: Soft skills required for BI developers

Whether you call it Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, Visual Analytics, etc. – getting information to the users when they need it and make it actionable requires more than just software. BI Content Developers can have a certification but to be…

The best part of writing a book is learning something new

Many of the chapters in my new book Building Business Intelligence Using SAS: Content Development Examples were straightforward to write but one in particular was the beast. Neither Tricia nor I wanted to tackle the SAS BI Dashboard chapter. Just chalk…

What has 435 pages, 500+ screen caps, and is ready for SAS Press today?

We can’t adequately convey how exciting and satisfying it is to get the Building BI With SAS book to this final stage! After awaiting feedback from reviewers, implementing the majority of suggested changes, and retaking all of the 500+ images, the CD is burned and ready for drop off.  SAS Press will now take all of this content, run through editorial staff, create an index, finalize the artwork, and create a printable book. This phase typically takes around 90 days, so the likely available date for purchase is January 2012. Fun Book Statistics Content Chapters: 10 MS Word Page count: 435 TIF Files (screen caps): 536  Space on SAS Press CD: 678MB Longest chapter: Prompt Framework (60 pages) Chapter with most screen captures: Web Report Studio (94) Chapter that took longest to write: Introduction – rewritten 3 times!  🙂 Chapter that took least time to write: Introduction (the first time!) Reviewer comments: Avg 12 per chapter Time Line Book Proposed – Dec 2010 Contract written for book – Jan 2011 Final draft due date – Jan 2012 – Delivered 4 months ahead of schedule Total Days writing: 244 Book available:  Jan 2012 (maybe even the first week!) Reviewer Comments Three […]

External SAS Press Review Process

We are now in the External Review Process!!
The SAS Press external review process takes 6 weeks. It includes internal SAS employees who were tasked with reviewing our first 3 chapters as well as several external reviewers. They are all tasked with re…

Final Workshop

Tricia and I are planning our final all-day working session, scheduled for this Sunday, to complete the final internal author review cycle. If all goes well, on Monday we will be handing the book off to the external reviewers for their 45-day review window! Writing this book has been a great learning expeirence. Not just with how to handle writing styles, image organization, formatting, etc – but other tricks to being a SAS Business Intelligence Content Developer! I’ve been using SAS BI since 2005, but just this past month I have learned two new & super neat tricks!

First Three Chapters Submitted to SAS Press

Tricia and I spent the gorgeous weekend inside working on our computers. But we are SO excited to have the first three chapters into SAS Press for the initial review phase. This was submitted a full 2 months before our contracted due date – so at…