Category: SAS

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sundeep Tengur. The revised EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has been a focal point for the financial services industry over the last couple of years and its adoption is set to revolutionise the payment ecosystem in Europe. New entrants, innovative technologies and increased regulation are already posing major challenges to traditional banks as they need to do more than ever before to retain their revenue streams, meet growing customer expectations and counter the erosion of their competitive edge. So why is PSD2 such a game-changer? In short, PSD2 calls for banks to open their data infrastructure ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. SAS programmers have high expectations for their coding environment, and why shouldn't they? Companies have a huge investment in their SAS code base, and it's important to have tools that help you understand that code and track changes over time. Few things are more satisfying as a SAS program that works as designed and delivers perfect results. (Oh, hyperbole you say? I don't think so.) But when your program isn't working the way it should, there are two features that can help you get back on track: a code debugger, and program revision history ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sanjay Matange. Long category values occur frequently in real world use cases.  This can happen with graphs for analysis of clinical research data, and also for graphs showing survey data where the question asked may be long (even a paragraph).  Managing such long categories on the x or y axis is always a challenge. With the SAS 9.4 release, SGPLOT and GTL support many features to help manage long category values by splitting and wrapping the value to fit in the space for each category.  On the x-axis, the space for each category is limited by ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sundeep Tengur. The revised EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has been a focal point for the financial services industry over the last couple of years and its adoption is set to revolutionise the payment ecosystem in Europe. New entrants, innovative technologies and increased regulation are already posing major challenges to traditional banks as they need to do more than ever before to retain their revenue streams, meet growing customer expectations and counter the erosion of their competitive edge. So why is PSD2 such a game-changer? In short, PSD2 calls for banks to open their data infrastructure ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Gerry Nelson. SAS Viya deployments use credentials for accessing databases and other third-party products that require authentication. In this blog post, I will look at how this sharing of credentials is implemented in SAS Environment Manager. In SAS Viya, domains are used to store the: Credentials required to access external data sources. Identities that are allowed to use those credentials. There are three types of domains: Authentication stores credentials that are used to access an external source that can then be associated with a caslib. Connection used when the external database has been set up to require a ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kim Andreaus. Next week I will be facing two major milestones in my life.  I turn 55 ...and the next day I take my only son to college.  These simultaneous occurrences have led me to some soul searching.   At times like this I often turn to my favorite authors/speakers for insight and wisdom.  I found that many of these have developed various lists:  Oprah has her "Things I know for Sure" at the end of each magazine, Anne Lamott just presented a TED talk on "12 things I"ve learned from life and writing", and even Ali ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Gert Nissen. Even though the calendar says it is summer time , the weather is not on the same page - at least not here in Copenhagen. That makes me think of the approaching winter and how animals prepare for it by gathering food stocks. We humans should fill our knowledge stock to stay comfortable at work all year long. Perhaps you were one of the many who tuned in on our webinars in freezing January when we started introducing them to Nordic SAS FANS. They provided short tips and tricks to inspire SAS users to gain more value from their SAS ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. Robots - everyone has probably been fascinated by the idea of robots at one time or another. From the early science fiction robots (such as Klaatu's robot Gort) to the mid-1980s movie robots (like Johnny 5), they have been portrayed in many different ways in fiction. These days, with the advent of computers, various kinds of robots have become a reality. In this blog post, the "robot invasion" we'll be mapping out is the proliferation of robots used in manufacturing (Sorry Doctor Who Cybermen fans - it's not that kind of invasion! Maybe I'll ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mary Kathryn Queen. In this blog post I am going to cover the example of importing data into SAS Viya using Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) actions via REST API. For example, you may want to import data into a CASLib via REST API.  This means you can perform an import of data outside of the SAS Self-Service Import user interface environment using REST API.  Once this data is loaded into CAS it is available for use in applications such as SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Data Builder. Introduction To import data into SAS Viya via ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Charlie Chase. Analytics-driven forecasting means more than measuring trend and seasonality. It includes all categories of methods (e.g. exponential smoothing, dynamic regression, ARIMA, ARIMA(X), unobserved component models, and more), including artificial intelligence, but not necessarily deep learning algorithms. That said, deep learning algorithms like neural networks can also be used for demand forecasting, depending on the situation.        When it comes to demand forecasting and planning these days, many people believe demand-driven and market-driven are interchangeable. There are some basic similarities - you need to forecast true demand, and use more advanced analytics to sense and ... Read More