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This course covers both Service Pack 3 and Service Pack 4 updates for the SAS9 Intelligence Platform 9.1.3 release. The course prepares you to maintain, extend, and administer the SAS business intelligence system and addresses fundamentals of the architecture for the SAS Intelligence Platform, data access, and user maintenance.

Before taking this e-learning, you should have experience supporting operating systems and administering the user environment, though SAS experience is not required.

Learn how to

• navigate a server tier
• navigate a client tier
• define and manage users of the platform for Business Analytics
• define and manage libraries in the platform for Business Analytics
• manage user access to data through the META engine.

Who should attend

Information technology professionals who are responsible for administering the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform 9.1.3 release.

Approximate duration:  13 hours

License period:  365 days

There are no formal prerequisites. Before taking this e-learning, you should have experience supporting operating systems and administering the user environment. It is also suggested that you view the free SAS Business Intelligence Overview before completing this e-learning.

An Introduction to the platform for SAS Business Analytics

• general overview of the SAS 9 Intelligence Architecture
• technical overview of the SAS 9 Intelligence Architecture
• looking behind the scenes

Navigating a Server Tier

• getting started
• navigating metadata server configuration files and metadata definitions
• navigating SAS application configuration files and metadata definitions

Navigating a Client Tier

• metadata profiles

Defining and Managing Users of the platform for SAS Business Analytics

• examining metadata identities
• how the metadata server determines a metadata identity
• how the metadata server uses a metadata identity
• special metadata identifiers
• implicit identify groups
• planning metadata users and groups

Defining and Managing Libraries in the platform for SAS Business Analytics

• understanding your clients and the applications they use
• using the SAS Management Console to define library metadata
• a closer look at the SAS Library Metadata Object
• working with libraries assigned by SAS Client Applications

Managing User Access to Data through the META Engine

• working with authorizations and the META Engine
• defining a META Engine Library

Students have unlimited 24/7 access to the interactive multimedia course on the Web for one year. The course requires only a standard Web browser and a free Flash plug-in. The course includes data that can be downloaded, printable lesson summaries, a Quick Reference Guide, practices and solutions, step-by-step demonstrations, and a Certificate of Completion.

You should

• use Internet Explorer 6.0 or later or Firefox 1.5 or later, with JavaScript and cookies enabled
• have the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player installed
• have base SAS software visible on the same machine that you are taking the training on so that you can practice your new skills in your own SAS environment.

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