There is a new version of this course. Please see SAS Platform Administration: Getting Started.

This course provides an overview of the platform for SAS Business Analytics from a platform administrator's perspective.

• identify the tiers of the platform for SAS Business Analytics
• understand metadata and how it can be modified by the various client tier applications
• understand the specific job functions of a SAS platform administrator.

Who should attend

There are no formal prerequisites for this course.

This course addresses SAS Analytics Platform, SAS Management Console software.

• the platform for SAS Business Analytics overview
• identifying personas in the platform for SAS Business Analytics

• exploring SAS metadata
• exploring server definitions
• exploring data definitions
• exploring user definitions
• exploring business intelligence content

• accessing metadata and defining libraries in SAS Data Integration Studio
• defining SAS metadata for OLAP reporting
• defining SAS metadata for information maps
• accessing SAS metadata using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
• accessing SAS metadata using SAS Enterprise Guide
• accessing SAS metadata using SAS Web Report Studio
• accessing SAS metadata using the SAS Information Delivery Portal

• describe the tasks of the SAS platform administrator