BUSINESS USER

Business Users include executives, middle managers and other information consumers, such as sales, marketing and finance professionals. Business Users access information from the web, Microsoft® Office applications and information portals.

Using SAS® Web Report Studio for Thin-Client Reporting

This course teaches you how to create, modify, and interact with reports using SAS Web Report Studio. Little or no experience in other reporting tools or database technology is required. The course requires the SAS Intelligence Platform.

Learn how to interact with SAS Web Report Studio to:

• open existing reports
• create new reports
• schedule reports
• include SAS Stored Processes in a report
• open reports in the SAS Information Delivery Portal.

Who should attend: Anybody who wants to use a Web-based interface to open, create, and interact with reports using SAS data sources

Level I: Getting Started

Duration: 1 day

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/sbiwrs.html

Accessing Information Using the SAS® Information Delivery Portal

This course focuses on using the SAS Information Delivery Portal to view content developed in the SAS Business Intelligence environment. This course requires the SAS Intelligence Platform.

Learn how to:

• navigate the SAS Information Delivery Portal
• change preferences in the portal to customize your view
• add and arrange pages in your portal view
• add and organize content in pages
• interact with SAS reports and SAS Stored Processes
• access SAS Information Maps containing relational and multidimensional data.

Who should attend: Business analysts, information consumers, and business decision makers who use the SAS Information Delivery Portal to view business reports

Level I: Getting Started
Duration: 1 day

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/sbiidp.html

Accessing SAS® from Microsoft Office Applications

This course provides an overview of SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office and shows how it can be used to access SAS information directly from Microsoft Office applications. This course requires the SAS Intelligence Platform.

Learn how to:
access and filter existing SAS data
use SAS data sources in PivotTables
create customized bar charts and summary tables
use stored processes, SAS tasks, and wizards to create reports
create spreadsheets, documents, and slides from SAS output.

Who should attend: Microsoft Office users who want to work with SAS data to create reports and perform analyses

Level I: Getting Started

Duration: 1 day

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/sbiamo.html

Introduction to SAS® Business Intelligence Applications for Reporting and Analysis

This course provides a hands-on overview of the SAS®9 Intelligence Platform and the specific applications that are used to create reports and analyses using SAS desktop and Web applications. It does not cover SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS OLAP Cube Studio, and the SAS Information Delivery Portal.

Learn how to:
access data in Microsoft Excel and create ports and analyses in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
build reports from a Web browser
access data, create reports and analyses, and turn those results into stored processes using SAS Enterprise Guide
build business views of enterprise data
understand the basics of the system administrator functions using SAS Management Console.

Who should attend: Business users

Level I: Getting Started

Duration: 2 days

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/lwsbiov1.html

Overview of SAS® Business Intelligence and Data Integration Applications

This course provides a comprehensive, handson overview of the SAS Intelligence Platform applications, including the Data Integration applications.

Learn how to:

• use SAS Management Console
• use SAS Data Integration Studio
• use SAS OLAP Cube Studio to create an OLAP cube
• access data, create reports, and perform analyses using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
• access data and create reports and stored processes using SAS Enterprise Guide
• write stored process code and register stored processes
• build business views of enterprise data
• build reports from a Web browser
• access existing information using the SAS Information Delivery Portal.

Who should attend: Business users, data warehouse architects, and SAS system administrators

Level II: Fundamentals

Duration: 3 days

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/sbiovr.html