This course provides information about how to access and build reports as well as analyze data using several of the information consumer applications in the platform for SAS Business Analytics.

The self-study version of this course contains structured course notes that provide a detailed overview and exercises and that help you develop essential skills. There is also a Virtual Lab that enables you to practice what you learn in the course.

The e-learning includes the following:

• digital course notes for self-study
• Virtual Lab: 30 hours of hands-on software practice

• identify types of reports
• create and share reporting presentations
• interact with multidimensional data
• access SAS data sources
• work with SAS analyses.

Who should attend

Formats available	Duration
e-Learning:	28 hours/180 day license

No SAS experience or programming experience is required, although you should have some computer experience. Specifically, you should

• be able to log on and off a computer and use a keyboard or mouse
• have some experience using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel (specifically, you should be able to open and save documents, use the menus and toolbars to accomplish tasks, and navigate Word documents and Excel spreadsheets)
• know how to use a Web browser to access information.

This course addresses SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office, SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Analytics Platform, SAS Web Report Studio software.

• exploring the SAS Information Consumer applications
• discussing the course environment and scenario

• identifying report types
• interacting with SAS BI Dashboards
• working with SAS reports
• running SAS Stored Processes

• exploring the SAS Web Report Studio roles
• considering basic reporting concepts
• creating a report with the report wizard
• creating a report in edit mode
• creating a report using a report template

• working with summarization options
• modifying the report layout
• working with report sections
• subsetting displayed data
• modifying report objects
• specifying report properties
• printing and exporting reports

• working with the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office options
• accessing data in the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
• exploring data characteristics for a SAS table
• opening a SAS information map into Microsoft Excel
• interacting with multidimensional reports

• exploring SAS task and wizard features
• creating a one-way frequency analysis
• creating a summary tableL
• creating graphical analyses with charts and plots

• controlling and managing the SAS Add-In output
• working with templates and SAS favorites
• accessing reports from Microsoft Outlook

• sharing report presentations
• building report presentations

• SAS resources
• beyond this course

• understanding report scheduling and distribution
• scheduling a report
• distributing a report