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Course fee and EPTO/APTO units differ for on-site training.Introduction to SAS Business Intelligence Applications for Reporting and Analysis (Live Web)
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Duration: 3
half-day sessions Please note the System Requirements below. Course fee: $860 EPTO units: 1.7 CEUs: 0.9 | ||
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This course provides a hands-on overview of the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform and the specific applications that are used to create reports and analyses using SAS desktop and Web applications. It does not cover SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS OLAP Cube Studio, and the SAS Information Delivery Portal.
Learn how to
- access data in Microsoft Excel and create reports and analyses in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
- build reports from a Web browser
- access data, create reports and analyses, and turn those results into stored processes using SAS Enterprise Guide
- build business views of enterprise data
- understand the basics of the system administrator functions using SAS Management Console.
Who should attend
Business users
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Prerequisites
No SAS experience or programming experience is required, although you should
- have some computer experience. Specifically, you should be able to log on and off a computer and use a keyboard or mouse.
- have some experience using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Specifically, you should be able to open and save documents, use the menus and toolbars to accomplish tasks, and navigate Word documents and Excel spreadsheets.
- know how to use a Web browser to access information.
Course Contents
Introduction to the Course Scenario and SAS Intelligence Platform
- Orion Star sports and outdoors
- SAS Intelligence Platform
- Orion Star personas and course data
- overview of the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
- accessing data with the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
- analyzing information with the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
- using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office to access reports
- overview of SAS Web Report Studio
- using SAS Web Report Studio
- introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide
- using SAS Enterprise Guide
- introduction to SAS Stored Processes
- creating stored processes with SAS Enterprise Guide
- overview of SAS Information Map Studio
- using SAS Information Map Studio
- introduction to the SAS Management Console
- how the SAS Management Console works
- introduction to the SAS Management Console Plug-Ins
- working with the user interface
- manually creating SAS Stored Processes
- SAS Intelligence Platform training
Software
This course addresses SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Intelligence Platform, SAS Management Console.
Course Materials
Students attend Live Web classes using a Web browser and a telephone and interact with
their instructor and fellow classmates in real time. Each student receives an e-mail
with instructions on how to join the class three business days before the class begins.
The instructions e-mail includes a link to download the course materials.
Students need to download and print the course materials prior to class.
System Requirements
For Live Web, you must
- review and follow the general system requirements.
- complete the course exercises through our virtual lab. The virtual lab allows you to access the software used in class over the Internet, so that you do not need this software on your local machine.
- run this test to connect to a virtual lab session. If firewall problems prevent you from connecting to the virtual lab, then you will not be able to participate in the course exercises. Using your organization's BI environment is not an option for completing the course exercises.
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