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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Data monetization and the economic value of data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/02/DataMonetization1-666x336.png)
How effective is your organization at leveraging data and analytics to power your business models? This question is surprising hard for many organizations to answer. Most organizations lack a roadmap against which they can measure their effectiveness for using data and analytics to optimize key business processes, uncover new business
![SAS Viya 3.3 - Some Kerberos principles](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/02/Kerberos1-702x336.png)
In this article, I will set out clear principles for how SAS Viya 3.3 will interoperate with Kerberos. My aim is to present some overview concepts for how we can use Kerberos authentication with SAS Viya 3.3. We will look at both SAS Viya 3.3 clients and SAS 9.4M5 clients.
![Creating a regional map with custom polygons in SAS Visual Analytics 8.2](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/02/Regional_Maps9-702x336.jpg)
In my last article, I worked with an example of using custom polygon data to create a regional geo map in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4. In this article, I will use almost the same example to illustrate the ease of implementing custom polygons to produce the same regional map in
![Creating a custom regional map in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/02/RegionalMaps4-691x336.jpg)
By default, SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 supports country and state level polygons for regional geomaps. In SAS Visual Analytics 7.4, custom shape files are now supported, as well. This means that if a site has their own custom polygon data that defines custom regions, it’s possible to create a region
![Jazz up a Geo Map with colorful icon-based display rules](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/02/GeoMap13.png)
Jazz up your Geo Map or Network Analysis graph by applying icon-based display rule markers instead of color markers on the map. With SAS Visual Analytics, you may have already used display rules by populating intervals or adding color-mapped values for report objects. Now, you can jazz up your Geo
![How to create custom regional maps in SAS Visual Analytics 8.2](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/01/Rostovtseva4-702x336.png)
Are you interested in using SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 to visualize a state by regions, but all you have is a county shapefile? As long as you can cross-walk counties to regions, this is easier to do than you might think. Here are the steps involved: Step 1 Obtain a