A SAS Information Map
is descriptive information that is used by many SAS solutions and
Business Intelligence products. An information map is applied to the
data sources in your data warehouse to describe the structure and
content of data. An information map does not contain any physical
data. Information maps provide business users with a user-friendly
way to understand data so that they can perform data queries and get
results for themselves.
SAS
Information Maps are created with either SAS Information Map Studio
or the INFOMAPS procedure. SAS Visual Data Builder cannot
create, edit, or save an information map. However, the data builder
can import the business logic from a relational information map and
represent it as an SQL query.