Like many of you, I’m closely following the last season of the ABC drama Lost. I’ve followed Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer et al. through six long years of island confusion. Now, with nine episodes left until the series ends for good, I can see how the writers are setting us
Business problem: By default, OLAP cubes calculate aggregations at each possible intersection of levels in one or more dimensions. However, there are situations where aggregations cannot be completed on the fly for all intersections within the cube due to business rules for some data levels. Also, the source data table
I LOVE to read. Six months ago, it was “bah humbug” for me when it came to eBooks. I want my print books! Then I got the Apple iPhone for Christmas and whoa, now I love reading online. Have you tried it yet? SAS Publishing Operations is working with the
If you would like for the BI Dashboard to send you an alert via email, you must ensure that the email address is included for each user that will be receiving emails. This is located in SAS Management Console User Manager. Instructions: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/biwaag/63059/HTML/default/a003311779.htm Example:
In one of my previous posts, I challenged myself to use SAS to create a monthly household budget and I’m happy to report that I have started this process. I have a few months worth of data and have begun to merge this information into data sets. With the combination
Contributed by Dave Russo, Technical Writer, SAS Publications Most of us in the Publications division spend our days capturing, refining, delivering, or promoting knowledge about SAS software. Like many of our customers, we’re in the knowledge business. As part of that business, I have the privilege of leading a small
You may choose to address security of who can view what dashboards within a SAS Information Delivery Portal page by managing the 'Sharing' capabilities at the Page or Portlet levels, however the most gradular level might also require a 'lock down' to avoid users surfing for and locating dashboards they
Would you like to get a quick preview of the gauge you are using in the BI Dashboard Indicator? Just tap the 'Select ...' button to the right of the 'Gauge type:' dropdown box. There are then images of what these gauges look like, such as the 'Dials' category below:
Information Map Studio allows data managers the ability to join tables, create new data elements, and label/format data items for business consumption. However due to this flexibility users must weigh the benefits of customizing information maps against the performance impacts of completing many of these tasks within the Information Map
Ran across a situation last week that proved extremely helpful. We needed to generate detailed logs on Web Report Studio use in order to verify pooling was setup correctly and then to monitor performance of some poor performers. The easiest and most straightforward way to accomplish this was to follow
