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.