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Course fee and EPTO/APTO units differ for on-site training.Authorization in the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform
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Classroom duration: 2.0 days Live Web duration: 4 half-day sessions Please note the System Requirements below. Course fee: $1,450 EPTO units: 2.8 CEUs: 1.2 | ||
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This course is for those who will be involved in administering users, servers, and applications in the SAS Intelligence architecture. The course focuses on the key areas of authorization, metadata permissions, and securing metadata objects.
Learn how to
- describe the process of authorization
- secure Business Intelligence objects
- use folders to secure metadata
- use access control templates to secure metadata.
Who should attend
Anyone tasked with administering SAS, in particular, security in the SAS metadata
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Prerequisites
Before attending this course, you should
- read SAS Intelligence Platform: Overview (.pdf)
- attend the Introduction to SAS Business Intelligence Applications for Reporting and Analysis course
- attend the Technical Overview of the SAS Intelligence Platform Architecture course.
Course Contents
Introduction to SAS Metadata Security
- introduction to the SAS 9 Intelligence platform
- introduction to basic tenets of security
- introduction to security in the SAS 9 Intelligence platform
- introduction to authorization
- elements of an authorization decision
- how an authorization decision is made
- introduction to metadata permissions
- securing libraries and tables
- securing OLAP cubes
- securing stored processes
- securing information maps
- securing reports
- securing servers
- securing metadata identities and groups
- guidelines for developing a metadata security plan
- creating additional metadata identities
- repository ACT settings
- securing root folders
- creating and implementing a security plan
Software
This course addresses SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office, SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Information Map Studio.
Course Materials
Classroom: Students attend classroom courses in one of our public training centers. You receive
a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.
Live Web: 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.
Live Web: 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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