Building Business Intelligence Using SAS: Content Development Examples by Tricia Aanderud and Angela Hall just published this month. This highly anticipated book—called “a must read for anyone using SAS® BI”* —is a quick-start guide that will help users move quickly from using only one of the SAS BI Clients to using a significant portion of the system.
We asked Tricia and Angela what kinds of user communities they think will benefit most from the information offered in the book. Here’s what they said:
- SAS Report Developers: Whether it’s creating reports in Web Report Studio, Add-in to MS Office, BI Dashboard or writing code for SAS Stored Processes, report developers will benefit from the step-by-step examples to create content in each component of SAS Business Intelligence Solution.
- SAS Database Administrators: Typically responsible for OLAP Cube development and Information Map creation, database administrators will find both of these techniques described in detail along with tricks to make them more efficient.
- SAS Administrators: Administrators will find instructions on how to enable capabilities for the users and best practices on organizing & managing the content developers are creating.
So there you have it—a new book that will be of use to large numbers of SAS users worldwide.
Visit Tricia’s and Angela’s author pages to read a free chapter from their new book and to find all of the ways you can connect with them online.
* Cindi Howson, founder of BI Scorecard and author of Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App
5 Comments
Would this book be suitable for someone (new to bi content development) to learn how to develop bi content? Otherwise what are the pre-requisites for understanding and making uase of this book?
Hi Reef!
This book is definitely a great resource for people who are completely new to the BI system. We start each chapter by giving definitions and use cases to help you understand which component to use when and then step you through the process of actually using the product. If you want to follow along, the only requirement is that you have a BI system installed/available to you.
Let us know how it goes!
~ Angela
Already ordered, really looking forward to it! :o)
I definitely agree and am recommending it to SAS users in Australia. Just finished teaching a SAS Enterprise Guide course for SAS Education and was promoting it as the attendees were asking questions about delivering their reports with the SAS BI clients and stored processes.
A must-have resource for the SAS users you mention and also useful for management/decision makers in understanding how the SAS products work together to provide consistent, self-service reporting.
Michelle, thanks for your comment and your recommendation of the book. Great to hear that you've found it to be a good resource for managers as well!