SAS Administration-palooza!

My journey to SAS Global Forum each year resembles a Gartner “Hype Cycle”. Every year, I leave the conference with a million ideas about how I can take what I’ve learned back into my own practice and think (foolishly) that I should write a paper on this or that. Then there is this lull – this sense of complacency that sets in after the real world takes over – and we go back to work. The excitement rises slightly when abstracts and titles are due, but the reality of the commitments are still far off. Then the trough of disillusionment hits when the paper is accepted, and I hadn’t quite thought through the work that would be involved in preparing the examples, the paper itself and the presentation.

It’s not every day that I would use the word “giddy”, but I have to admit, now that my papers are finished, I can look forward to putting my own schedule together for SAS Global Forum 2014. Never before have I seen so many papers directly targeted to the SAS Administrator – from architecture, to security, to SAS Grid and managing metadata – this year promises to be fantastic!

I am giving a few invited papers this year along with a workshop on SAS Administration that starts on Sunday. But for the experienced as well as the uninitiated, here are a few of my favorite peeps! I say this because pretty much anything they have to talk about is worth your time!

Margaret Crevar | Paul Homes
Ken Gahagan | Peter Villiers
Gary Spakes | Stephen Overton
Tricia Aanderud | Mike Frost

And the list goes on – that’s why I love this conference and the SAS ecosystem! In addition, I’m so looking forward to meeting some online friends from the SAS online communities such as SASCommunity.org, communities.sas.com and the LinkedIn groups.

Be sure to create your own schedule at SAS Global Forum Connect. As for me, I’ve created my own wish list of things I want to see in the areas of SAS Administration (along with a few other papers I am required to attend) and have included that for you here!

My Interests

1318 - Secure SAS® OLAP Cubes with Top-Secret Permissions, Stephen Overton

1247 - SAS® Admins Need a Dashboard, Too, Michelle Homes and Tricia Aanderud

1262 - SAS® Installations: So you want to install SAS?, Rafi Sheikh

1365 - Tips and Tricks for Organizing and Administering Metadata, Michael Sadof

1491 - Modernizing Your Data Strategy: Understanding SAS® Solutions for Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance, and Master Data Management. Greg Nelson

1559 - SAS® Grid Manager I/O: Optimizing SAS® Application Data Availability for the Grid, Gregg Rohaly and Harry Seifert

1684 - Grid—What They Didn't Tell You, Manuel Nitschinger and Phillip Manschek

1721 - Deploying a User-Friendly SAS® Grid on Microsoft Windows, Houliang Li

1761 - Test for Success: Automated Testing of SAS® Metadata Security Implementations, Paul Homes

1792 - Big Data/Metadata Governance, Sigurd Hermansen

1815 - A Case Study: Performance Analysis and Optimization of SAS® Grid Computing Scaling on a Shared Storage, Suleyman Sair and Yingping Zhang

1868 - Queues for Newbies – How to Speak LSF in a SAS® World, Andrew Howell

2237 - The Role of the SAS® Administrator: A Day in the Life of a Modern SAS Enterprise, Greg Nelson, Conference Tutorial

SAS008 - Better Together: Best Practices for Deploying SAS® Web Parts for Microsoft SharePoint, Randy Mullis

SAS054 - Advanced Security Configuration Options for SAS® 9.4 Web Applications and Mobile Devices, Heesun Park

SAS072 - SAS® in the Enterprise—a Primer on SAS® Architecture for IT, Gary Spakes

SAS086 - Integrating Your Corporate Scheduler with Platform Suite for SAS® or SAS® Grid Manager, Paul Northrop

SAS102 - An Advanced Fallback Authentication Framework for SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Visual Analytics, Zhiyong Li

SAS106 - Top 10 Resources Every SAS® Administrator Should Know About, Margaret Crevar

SAS109 - SAS® Administration Panel Discussion, Margaret Crevar

SAS111 - SAS® UNIX Utilities and What They Can Do for You, Jerry Pendergrass

SAS118 - Using Metadata-Bound Libraries to Authorize Access to SAS® Data, Jack Wallace

SAS119 - Lessons Learned from SAS® 9.4 High-Availability and Failover Testing, Arthur Hunt

SAS142 - Security Scenario for SAS® Visual Analytics, Dawn Schrader

SAS167 - Auditing an Enterprise SAS® Visual Analytics 6.2 Environment with SAS® Tools: From the SAS® IT Perspective, Dan Lucas

SAS282 - Useful Tips for Building Your Own SAS® Cloud, Peter Villiers

SAS289 - SAS® Grid Manager, SAS® Visual Analytics, and SAS® High-Performance Analytics: Sharing Hardware and More, Ken Gahagan

SAS299 - Secure Your Analytical Insights on the Plane, in the Café, and on the Train with SAS® Mobile BI, Christopher Redpath

SAS315 - SAS® 9.4 Web Application Performance: Monitoring, Tuning, Scaling, and Troubleshooting, Rob Sioss

SAS357 - Migrating SAS® Java EE Applications from WebLogic, WebSphere, and JBoss to the SAS® Web Server, Zhiyong Li

SAS375 - Effective Use of SAS® Enterprise Guide® in a SAS® 9.4 Grid Manager Environment, Edoardo Riva

SAS394 - Exploring Data Access Control Strategies for Securing and Strengthening Your Data Assets Using SAS® Federation Server, Margaret Crevar and Mike Frost

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