the company's business requirements
the configuration of the business enterprise (for example, hardware, software, business processes, and communications protocols)
the package content (structured and unstructured data)
the transport (such as archive, channel, e-mail, message queue, or Web) that is used to deliver the package.

The following scenarios depict business factors that might affect how a package is rendered:

Consumer Need	Publisher Solution
Access to packages, but have limited system storage resources	Render the package as an archive.
Access to package without having SAS software installed	Render the package as an archive and attach the archive to e-mail for access using SAS Package Reader.
Only executive-level summaries (for example, text reports, graphics, and Web links)	Render the package as unstructured content to known consumers via e-mail or to unknown consumers via subscription-based channels.
Access to SAS results, but do not want to access the package for continued processing	Apply a template to the SAS data package entry for viewing in e-mail and on the Web.
Access to SAS results, but do not have Web access or do not use HTML	Apply a template in plain-text format to the SAS results for viewing in e-mail.
Direct access to SAS results for continued data processing	Deliver SAS results package entries to message queues or archives to enable programmatic access to SAS data.
To span a broad professional range (executive, manager, programmer, and knowledge worker)	Apply name/value metadata to the package and package entries to enable consumers to filter packages or package entries for relevancy.

Before the publisher can begin the publishing process, the administrator must first configure the publishing environment, which might include archives, channels, subscribers, and subscriptions. For details, see Administering the Publishing Framework in the SAS Integration Technologies: Administrator's Guide. If you are using an LDAP directory server as your metadata repository, see Administering the Publishing Framework in the SAS Integration Technologies: Administrator's Guide (LDAP Version).