SAS Information Map Studio enables data modelers and
data architects to create and manage SAS Information Maps, which are
business metadata about your data. Information maps enable you to
surface your data warehouse data in business terms that typical business
users understand, while storing key information that is needed to
build appropriate queries.
Information maps provide
the following benefits:
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Users are shielded from the complexities
of the data.
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Data storage is transparent to
the consumers of information maps, regardless of whether the underlying
data is relational or multidimensional, or whether the data is in
a SAS data set or in a third-party database system.
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Business formulas and calculations
are predefined, which makes them usable on a consistent basis.
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Users can easily query data for
answers to business questions without having to know query languages.
For more information,
see the SAS Information Map Studio Help, which is available from within
the product, and
SAS Information Map Studio: Getting Started
with SAS Information Maps, which is available at
http://support.sas.com.