Many sites prepare data
sources to be used by business analysts. This information can come
from data sources such as data warehouses and transactional systems.
A data administrator enables access by registering the tables and
libraries in SAS metadata. A data administrator might use additional
SAS products to provide advanced data governance, data quality, and
data management support.
SAS/ACCESS engines can
be used to access data in operational systems, transactional systems,
or data warehouses. SAS offers a variety of
SAS/ACCESS engines for
accessing data from operational systems. These engines must be licensed
and configured at your site to connect to the data. After a connection
is set up, you can use SAS Management Console and SAS Visual Analytics
Administrator for registering the libraries and tables from these
data sources.