SAS NEWS

SAS® and DataFlux in Visionaries Quadrant for Data Integration Tools Magic Quadrant

SAS and DataFlux have been placed by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration report.
SAS® Data Integration, a key part of the SAS Business Analytics Framework, eases access to crucial data and eliminates the cost of custom coding for individual integration projects. Problems resulting from inconsistent or missing information are minimized, providing an accurate vision of crucial customer, project or other data. Read more.

SAS® a Leader in Cross-Channel Campaign Management Says Independent Research Firm

SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management Platforms, Q4 2009 (Dec. 2009), with SAS® Customer Intelligence listed as No. 1 in optimization, analytics and reporting and installed base. SAS also had a strong showing in application usability, real-time analytics, budget management and forecasting, architecture and campaign design. Read more.

SAS named a ‘leader’ in business performance solutions by independent research firm

SAS received the top rank for cost and profitability analysis – earning a perfect score – while also receiving the top score in product strategy and vision in the November 16, 2009, Forrester Wave: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2009 report. Read more

    SAS EVENTS

The Fresh Connection -
01 February: Supply Chain competition starts

As a supplier of solutions for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Supply Chain Intelligence, SAS supports this game that will start on 1st February 2010.

The Fresh Connection is an internet game for supply chain professionals. Conceived, developed and supported by experts in the field of supply chain management (SCM).  Are you interested to enter the competition? Let us know !

Demand Driven Forecasting event with Charles Chase
04 February

Let us know if you are interested to join us for a stimulating ‘Peer-to-Peer’ session with experts from your sector who have already had success in combining domain expertise with state-of-the-art business analytics to identify trends, predict exceptional events, and construct the best-possible forecasts.

Especially for this event, Charles Chase will be in Belgium to discuss his book: Demand-Driven Forecasting: A Structured Approach to Forecasting.

BI-Community Round Table
04 February, Faculty Club Groot Begijnhof 14, 3000 Leuven

SAS sponsors this event and will moderate a round table to discuss “First to Information = First to Win: Taming textual and online content. With the Web 2.0 explosion and beyond, organizations are receiving more and more crititcal signals via publications, e-mails, web sites, blogs, online communities and social networking sites. Business Analytics need to look beyond structured data to find the strategic insights to drive organizational excellence. Click here for more information about this seminar.

BI-Community Predictive Analytics TDWI Benelux Chapter Meeting
11 February, Bremberg Centrum Bremberg 1, 3053 Haasrode

SAS presents a customer case with Enquio. For more information, click here.

SAS Solutions Overview seminar
23 February, SAS Offices Tervuren

• Data Integration
• Predictive Analytics
• Reporting
• Business & Industry Solutions
• Performance Improvement capabilities

IT Service Management Forum by TMAB
18 March, Metropolis Antwerp

SAS will be present at the The IT Service Management Forum (itSMF), which is the only internationally recognised and independent organisation dedicated to IT Service Management. It is a not-for-profit organisation, wholly owned, and principally operated, by its membership.

    SAS RESOURCES

SAS® 9.2 Web application support for Integrated Windows Authentication

It is now possible to authenticate 9.2 clients to SAS servers, using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). This is possible for clients like Enterprise Guide, SAS DI Studio, and web applications, like Web Report Studio. Its benefits : bypasses the initial logon prompt accommodates logon mechanisms that are not password-based (such as smart cards or biometrics). It is primarily used for connections to the metadata server, the workspace server and direct connections to an OLAP server. See this SAS Note and page 148 of SAS® 9.2 Intelligence Platform Security Administration Guide.

Integrating SAS® Business Intelligence with Microsoft SharePoint

Because of the increased interest and deployment of Microsoft SharePoint, the need to integrate SAS® Business Intelligence technologies with SharePoint has also risen. This paper describes a variety of approaches to integrating the two technologies, such as using SharePoint document libraries to store content produced by SAS, including SAS output in SharePoint pages and extracting SharePoint list data into SAS for analysis.

Using the ModStyle macro to dynamically modify ODS styles

SAS Graph templates are used to produce new graphs with many statistical graphs. A language is available to modify those templates, described here