This course provides comprehensive training for SAS Profitability Management. The course covers key concepts and focuses on building a profitability model and generating dynamic reports. In addition to model design techniques and validation, the course covers advanced reporting, which includes identifying alternative SAS tools for analyzing SAS Profitability Management data. (For example, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Data Integration Studio, and SAS Profitability Management Studio are also used in this class.) The course concludes with project implementation.

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 self-study e-learning includes:

• Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
• Virtual Lab time to practice.

Naucz się

• Build and update a SAS Profitability Management model.
• Recognize the relationship between rules and behaviors.
• Update an existing model with new data.
• Analyze model data using OLAP reporting tools.

Kto powinien uczestniczyć

End users and technical analysts (representing a range of industries, including telecommunications, banking, and large remote retail companies), specifically those who want to be able to quickly calculate point profit for customer transactions using SAS Profitability Management

Dostępne formaty	Długość
e-szkolenie:	21 godziny/180 dzień licencja

Before attending this course, you should have domain experience. Familiarity with OLAP reporting is helpful but not required.

No programming courses in Base SAS are required. Training about the business intelligence applications that make up the platform for SAS Business Analytics is an appropriate follow-up to this course.

To szkolenie wykorzystuje oprogramowanie SAS Profitability Management  

What Is SAS Profitability Management?

• Course objectives and overview.
• What is SAS Profitablity Management?
• Data flow and applications used in class.
• The FASHBI case study.
• Viewing a report on the Web client.

Understanding Dimensionality

• What are dimensions?
• Introducing SAS Enterprise Guide.

Building the Model

• Overview and the star schema.
• Building a model.
• Dimension tables and SAS Data Integration Studio.
• Transaction tables.
• Transaction tables and the model.
• Rules tables.
• Behavior tables and model calculation.

Reporting

• Reporting overview.
• Report definition tables.
• Creating reports.
• Viewing reports.
• Advanced reporting tools.

Validating and Updating the Model

• Model validation.
• Updating the model.

Model Design

• Reviewing the core tables.
• Table dependencies: transaction and dimension tables.
• Table dependencies: table groups and the assignment rules table.
• Table dependencies: rule association and behavior tables.
• Table dependencies: the report tables.
• Model design.
• Skills for a successful project.

Using What You Learned

• A consolidation and integration exercise using the skills taught in class.

Data Management

• Organizing the data.
• SAS Management Console.
• Adding a library.
• Adding a server.

Sample Tables

• SAS Profitability Management tables.

Table Dependencies

Calculation Diagrams

• Introduction.
• Calculation based on a unit rate.
• Calculations based on a total rate.