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What is SAS Information Map Studio? SAS Information Map Studio creates information maps — business metadata that translates your warehouse and data structures into terms that business users can understand, enabling consistency and self-sufficiency in getting the information needed to drive decisions.
Why are SAS information maps important? SAS information maps provide a business metadata layer that enables your business users to ask questions and get answers themselves. This frees IT resources from one-time reporting requests and reduces the need to provide training in programming and database structures.
For whom is SAS Information Map Studio designed? SAS Information Map Studio is designed for information architects and query designers who need to create and manage information maps (business metadata) to enable self-service information access by business users.
Key Benefits
- Free IT from one-time reporting requests. SAS Information Map Studio enables IT to provide common sets of information in terms that are understood by business users. Business users can then use the information maps to create queries and build the reports they need without IT intervention and without having to know anything about the physical data stores held throughout the organization.
- Get consistent reports and information. SAS Information Map Studio leverages SAS’ centralized metadata architecture, and the information maps are stored in the SAS Metadata Repository. As a result, SAS information maps are available as part of the SAS 9.1 suite of reporting interfaces and to SAS solutions built on the SAS Intelligence Platform. Information is presented in a consistent fashion across the organization with everyone using the same terminology in the same way. IT does not have to spend resources reconciling data inconsistencies and business users can trust the information they gather.
Key Features
- Map physical data structures to understandable business terms. Through SAS Information Map Studio, you can create data items that map physical data references to business context terms. Creating a business metadata layer translates complex data structures into terms that business users can understand.
- Specify business rules that drive consistent data and guidelines for usage. Information maps can surface standard definitions for business metrics so all users can access the same definitions. These business rules ensure that key business metrics are defined and used consistently across the enterprise. Information maps also capture proper usage information, such as allowable aggregations, which sets boundaries for business users to ensure that data is used only as intended and that business users have understand how to use each data item.
- Leverage SAS data access and storage capabilities. Information maps leverage the powerful, cross-platform data access capabilities of SAS, providing unmatched abilities to access and join data from multiple data sources.
- Provide easy access to powerful SAS analytics. SAS software’s powerful analytic models can be surfaced as stored processes and linked to information maps to provide up-to-date intelligence in business reports.
- Leverage SAS’ centralized metadata architecture. SAS information maps are available as part of the SAS 9.1 suite of reporting interfaces and to SAS solutions built on the SAS Intelligence Platform.
- Administer information maps. Information maps can be organized into a folder tree in the SAS Metadata Server, and you can use SAS Information Map Studio to create, move, rename or delete the information maps. Row-level permissions can be applied to an information map based on relational data. As a result, data is filtered for specific user groups, so each group sees only its authorized subset of the data.
For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the SAS Information Map Studio fact sheet  . |
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