SAS Activity-Based Management 6.x Report Creation for Modelers

Role

Model builders responsible for creating and maintaining SAS Activity-Based Management reports.

Duration

2 days

Description

This course teaches you to create focused reports through the use of OLAP analysis cubes, report templates, and the classic analytic view of an ABC model.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have: Completed the ABC Modeling Using SAS Activity-Based Management 6.x course or have equivalent experience. Experience with SAS Enterprise Guide is recommended.

SAS Modules Used

SAS Activity-Based Management, SAS Enterprise Guide.

Course Topics

Reporting for Business Analysis and Model Validation:

• Defining business analysis and model validation reporting needs;
• identifying report templates to meet these needs;
• identifying report dependencies.

Characteristics of Effective Reporting:

• defining elements of successful report contents and appearance;
• aligning report styles to analysts' needs; avoiding common reporting pitfalls.

OLAP Reporting:

• practical application of SAS Activity-Based Management OLAP;
• enhancing OLAP views with Stage attributes;
• Using the OLAP Cube Explorer

Moving Report Data to SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Data Sets:

• setting up the SAS ABM Add-in;
• setting up SAS/SHARE;
• customizing reports in SAS Enterprise Guide

Presenting Your Reports:

• preparing reports for delivery

Challenge Lab:

• building a presentation from the class model;
• delivering your presentation to the class

Objectives

After attending this course you will be able to extract data from a SAS Activity-Based Management model and translate that data into reports using SAS Enterprise Guide.