Overview of SAS Information Delivery Portal

About SAS Information Delivery Portal

The SAS Information Delivery Portal (or simply, the portal) is a Web application that provides a single, easy-to-use interface from which you can access a broad range of enterprise information. This information includes reports, charts, Web applications, documents, and links to internal or external Web pages. The portal gives you access to information that is produced through the analytical capabilities of SAS, and provides a single access point to SAS output.

Your organization can use the portal to deliver important and timely business intelligence efficiently to employees, customers, partners, and vendors. The portal provides a secure environment for your business intelligence so that users see only the information that they have security rights to access.

The portal's personalization features enable you to create and customize your own Web pages and content. You can organize your personal portal so that it contains only the information that you need, in the format that makes the most sense to you. From the portal, you can subscribe to publication channels that deliver continually updated information to your desktop. The portal also provides a secure environment for sharing information with other users.

How to Access SAS Information Delivery Portal

To open the SAS Information Delivery Portal, open your Web browser and point it to the portal's URL address. To obtain the URL, contact your administrator.

To identify yourself to the portal, you must log on with your user name and password. (If you do not have a user name and password, contact your administrator to obtain them.)

After you log on, you can do the following tasks:

Personalize your view of the portal by adding pages, portlets, and content items and modifying or rearranging them to meet your unique needs. Each time you log on, your own personalized view of the portal is displayed.
Search for and view protected content that your user name and password authorize you to access.
Launch other applications that might be available from the portal, without the need to re-enter your user name and password.

The logon procedure varies depending on how your organization has installed the portal. Use either the portal logon procedure or the Web server logon procedure, as appropriate.

If your organization uses the portal's logon feature, open your browser and point to the portal's URL. When the portal's logon page appears, enter your User Name and Password. Then click Log On to open your personal portal.
Organizations that use the Web Server Logon, have different logon procedures. After you have logged on to the Web server, open your personal portlet by pointing your browser to the portal's URL.

Note: The portal supports only one user session per browser instance. Different portal users can have different sessions in separate browser instances, but not in separate tabs in the same browser instance.

How to Log Off from the Portal

When you are finished using the portal, you should log off in order to close your portal session. Logging off releases the system resources that you were using. (Your portal session continues to use system resources until the session expires, even if you closed the browser window.)

To log off, click Log Off in the banner. Then close the browser window.

How to Content Is Organized in the Portal

The following figure is an example of a portal.

Note: Your organization might customize the portal so that it looks different from the example shown here.

Information Delivery Portal

1The navigation bar contains links for your portal Web pages. You open a different page by clicking its name in the navigation bar. In the display, the portal's Home page is the active Web page. Notice that the Home link is highlighted on the navigation bar.

2Portlets are the rectangular display components of a portal page that contain links, graphs, reports, and other information that is available in the portal. You can edit the contents of some portlets. To edit, remove, or minimize a portlet, use the icons in the portlet title bar.

3The banner provides links that enable you to customize your portal and personalize your portal by means of the Options button. The banner also provides search, log off, demonstration, and help features.

4The portal links enable you to view information or launch applications that are available to you through the portal by clicking any active link that is displayed inside a portlet.

For information about the type of content that the portal can contain and how to add, view, and manage the portal's content, see the documentation that is available for SAS Information Delivery Portal.