SAS® Activity-Based Management 7.x Advanced Reporting and Analysis

This course teaches you how to create focused reports using OLAP analysis cubes, report templates, and the classic analytic view of an ABC model.

The self-study e-learning includes:

Learn how to

build reports for both model validation and analysis
design effective reports that reflect the report consumer's preferred style
use online analytical processing (OLAP) for custom reports
use SAS Enterprise Guide to pull SAS Activity-Based Management model data to construct custom reports
prepare your reports for delivery.

Model builders who are responsible for creating and maintaining standard and custom SAS Activity-Based Management reports

Before attending this course, you should have completed the Modeling Cost Using SAS® Cost and Profitability Management 8.1 course or have equivalent experience. Experience with SAS Enterprise Guide, which can be gained by taking the SAS® Enterprise Guide® 1: Querying and Reporting course, is recommended.

This course addresses SAS Cost and Profitability Management Standard software.

Standard SAS Activity-Based Management Reports and Report Dependencies

Model Validation and Analysis Reports

Advanced OLAP Reporting with SAS Activity-Based Management

Customizing Cubes for Reporting

explaining the advantages of the SAS OLAP Server
identifying the correct model and cube view
building a cube in SAS OLAP Cube Studio
viewing the cube in SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, and Microsoft Excel
viewing a cube

Report Customization in SAS Activity-Based Management OLAP

Custom Reports in SAS Enterprise Guide

extracting report template data from your activity-based model and place it in a SAS data set
formatting the data and using simple math to calculate a value
generating a report with a graphics display from the report template data
saving the process

Reporting and Refining SAS Activity-Based Management Data in Other SAS Reporting Applications