DataFlux Data Management Studio 2.7: User Guide

Overview of DataFlux Software

DataFlux Data Management Studio and Server

DataFlux Data Management Servers provide a scalable server environment for your jobs, profiles, and real-time services. After you upload your jobs and real-time services to the server, authorized users across your enterprise execute them.

In a production environment, you typically run test jobs and small jobs on the DataFlux Data Management Studio host. You upload larger jobs to a DataFlux Data Management Server. The DataFlux Data Management Server provides a scalable server environment for large Data Management Studio jobs. Jobs are uploaded from Data Management Studio to a Data Management Server, where the jobs are executed. For more information, see Data Management Servers Riser Bar.

Authorization Server

SAS Quality Knowledge Bases 

A Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) is a collection of files that store data and logic that define data management operations. SAS software products reference a QKB when performing these operations on your data. There are currently two QKBs available: QKB for Contact Information (CI) and QKB for Product Data (PD).

You can use definitions in a QKB as delivered, or you can use DataFlux Data Management Studio to customize the QKB by modifying definitions or creating new definitions for use with your own business data. Since a QKB is used by DataFlux Data Management Studio, SAS Data Quality Server, and the SAS Data Quality Accelerators, QKB customizations are automatically available to your entire enterprise. For more information, see Managing Quality Knowledge Bases.

DataFlux Web Studio

DataFlux Web Studio is an optional, web-based application. It has separately-licensed modules that enable you to perform data management tasks from a web browser. DataFlux Web Studio Server runs the jobs that support all of the Web Studio modules. Each of the following modules has its own tab in DataFlux Web Studio.

DataFlux Reference Data Manager provides a web interface for creating and managing reference data, such as a list of valid values for a Gender field or a list of valid ZIP codes with their associated cities and states. The values are organized into domains. Reference Data Manager domains can be used in DataFlux Data Management Studio data jobs and in business rules. For more information about domains and data jobs, see Using Reference Data Manager Domain Items in a Job. For more information about domains and business rules, see Create a Rule that Compares Two Fields.

DataFlux Monitor Viewer and Dashboard Viewer provide web interfaces for reviewing defined output of business rules, along with exceptions. This output includes items such as rules, triggers, history, dimensions, scores, and trends. The output is generated by data monitoring jobs that are created in Data Management Studio and are deployed to a DataFlux Data Management Server. These web interfaces are similar to the Monitor Viewer and Dashboard tab in DataFlux Data Management Studio, but the web interfaces are available to those who do not have access to DataFlux Data Management Studio. For more information about creating data monitoring jobs, see Monitoring Data.

Note: In order to use the DataFlux Web Studio modules that are described above, Web Studio and the separate modules must be licensed on the relevant server.

For more information about DataFlux Web Studio, see the DataFlux Web Studio User's Guide and the DataFlux Web Studio Installation and Configuration Guide.

Related Products

See Related Products for information about DataFlux Address Update Add-On, Data Management Server for SAS, SAS Business Data Network, SAS Federation Server, and SAS Lineage.