Overview of SAS Enterprise Guide

What Is SAS Enterprise Guide?

SAS Enterprise Guide is a Microsoft Windows client application that provides a guided mechanism to exploit the power of SAS. SAS Enterprise Guide uses projects to manage a collection of related data, tasks, code, and results. With projects, you can run multiple tasks on the same group of data files and create interactive or ad hoc reports.

All report definitions that are supplied by SAS IT Resource Management were generated using SAS Enterprise Guide projects similar to those that SAS IT Resource Management provides. For more information, see SAS Enterprise Guide Projects Supplied by SAS IT Resource Management.

SAS Enterprise Guide provides comprehensive report definition and reporting services that SAS IT Resource Management uses to generate analysis and intelligence about your IT resources. Report definitions can be run interactively within SAS Enterprise Guide, or they can be packaged using the ITRM Gallery task and scheduled to run in batch mode. For more information about report definitions and the ITRM Gallery task, see About the ITRM Gallery Task.

How to Start SAS Enterprise Guide

To start SAS Enterprise Guide, from the Start menu, select Programs

SAS

Enterprise Guide.

The Welcome to SAS Enterprise Guide dialog box appears.

Welcome to SAS Enterprise Guide Dialog Box

You can select any of the options in the Welcome window.

Note: Make sure you have access to the project that you want to work with.

Accessing IT Data Marts Using SAS Enterprise Guide

Before you begin working with SAS Enterprise Guide projects, you must use the functions of SAS Enterprise Guide in order to perform the following tasks:

Set up SAS Enterprise Guide so that it can work with SAS IT Resource Management data.
Migrate SAS Enterprise Guide projects so that they can work with your SAS IT Resource Management 3.2 IT data marts, in which you created the report data

For more information about how to complete these tasks, see Preparing to Work with SAS Enterprise Guide.