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.
SAS Enterprise Guide provides comprehensive report tasks and reporting services that SAS IT Resource Management uses to generate analysis and intelligence about your IT resources. You can use the supplied IT Resource Management EG projects to run the supplied reports interactively or you can create your own. For more information, see About the ITRM Report Definition Task.

How to Start SAS Enterprise Guide

To launch SAS Enterprise Guide, select Startthen selectProgramsthen selectSASthen selectEnterprise Guide.
The Welcome to SAS Enterprise Guide dialog box appears.
Welcome to SAS Enterprise Guide Dialog Box
Welcome to SAS Enterprise Guide
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 3.5 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.