Overview of SAS Enterprise Guide Administration

SAS Enterprise Guide provides a graphical interface and a task structure for the SAS programming language. Wizards and menu options enable you to quickly generate projects, tasks, and process flows. The process flows analyze data, create graphs, and generate reports. Behind each process flow is a SAS program that you can execute and edit.

With SAS Enterprise Guide, you can access data in many formats and third-party databases, in operating environments including UNIX, z/OS, and Windows.

If you build and maintain OLAP cubes using SAS OLAP Server, you can query those cubes using SAS Enterprise Guide.

When users connect to a SAS Metadata Server within the SAS Intelligence Platform, the primary administrative application is SAS Management Console. Several additional administrative features are provided by the SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer application. If you run SAS Enterprise Guide without a SAS Metadata Server, then SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer is your administrative application.

To administer SAS Enterprise Guide, you perform the following tasks:

The following diagram depicts how you use administrative tools to create and access libraries.

SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer adds the following administrative features to those that are provided by SAS Management Console:

Using SAS Enterprise Guide within the SAS Intelligence Platform provides access to the following features: