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RSS sasInside the Mind of the Retail CEO
White Paper The combination of a nervous consumer, a shaky economy and a historic presidential campaign means that there has never been more at stake for the retail industry. So, what's on the minds of retails CEOs? [08 Jul 2008]
Strategic Supply Management: Creating the Next Source of Competitive Advantage
White Paper This webcast offers a roadmap of what it means to practice strategic supply management. No longer a transactional activity, supply management is about creating and sustaining new sources of competitive advantage. [08 Jul 2008]
A Balanced Scorecard in 16 Weeks, Not 16 Months
White Paper The speaker of this webcast will help to circumnavigate the common pitfalls of balanced scorecard development. He will talk about 11 lessons that will make a difference: appoint an external project facilitator; begin with senior management team... [08 Jul 2008]
Parsing Web Logs With Base SAS
White Paper This paper gives a brief description of the Extended Common Log Format that is typically used by web servers to keep track of the requests that occur at a web site, and presents SAS code that reads the Extended Common Log Format web log into a SAS... [03 Jul 2008]
Aligning IT with Operational and Budget Strategies - Using SAS IT Value Management and SAS IT Resource Management to Demonstrate IT's Merit
White Paper This white paper introduces the concept of IT value management and provides an overview of SAS' unique ability to help IT departments demonstrate their value to the organization. The IT department's role in the success of the enterprise is changing. [03 Jul 2008]
Multiprocessing With Version 8 of the SAS System
White Paper A new feature has been added to Version 8 of the SAS System that allows the SAS jobs to take advantage of SMP hardware and to also allow parallel processing with the remote hosts in one's network. With the ever increasing need to get more done in... [30 Jun 2008]
SPD Server 4.1: Scalability Solution for SAS - Turning Big Data Into Business and Analytic Intelligence
White Paper The features and enhancements added address performance for the SAS Enterprise Marketing Automation Solution. This paper will provide an overview to the new features and enhancements for SPD Server 4.0. [30 Jun 2008]
ARMing SAS Jobs on HP?UX 11.x
White Paper Using ARM with SAS allows a systems administrator to monitor the performance of the entire job or even a single PROC step within a job. The purpose of this paper is to describe the steps necessary to ARM a SAS job and then monitor that job using HP... [30 Jun 2008]
Globalization and National Language Support for Your Version 8.2 SAS Environment
White Paper Historically, SAS has provided options one could use to set up the system to handle data in non-US operating environments. With the 8.2 release, SAS expands and simplifies its support for national languages on all platforms - from the mainframe to... [30 Jun 2008]
Security Concerns and Best Practices for a SAS Grid
White Paper The paper will identify security issues and the best practices for addressing security issues when accessing nodes in a SAS grid using the capabilities of SAS/CONNECT. In fact, these same issues apply for a CONNECT client connecting to and... [30 Jun 2008]
How to Increase I/O Throughput With SAS for Windows' SGIO Feature
White Paper SAS users tend to do very large amounts of sequential blocked I/O. When one has several of these type jobs running on a server, SAS tends to overrun the operating system file cache. When this happens on a Windows 2000/2003 server one may be able to... [30 Jun 2008]
An Introduction to Exporting SAS/Graph Output to Microsoft Office SAS Release 8.2 and Higher
White Paper This paper includes in-depth information about the different formats and methods one can use to export SAS/GRAPH output to Microsoft Office 97, 2000, and XP. This paper has been updated to include new features that are now available in SAS 9. [30 Jun 2008]
Examples of Batch Processing Under Windows
White Paper This paper will show several examples of executing SAS batch jobs under Windows 95, 98, NT, ME and Windows 2000 operating systems. These examples will work with all of the operating systems listed. The examples in this paper were created using the... [30 Jun 2008]
VPN and Firewall Traversal
White Paper This paper present method proposed in IETF for making both initial IKE negotiations and subsequent authenticated / encrypted communications across IPSec AH / ESP SAs work despite the changes in the headers, and possible protocol transformations. [30 Jun 2008]
Storing Graphs Generated With BY-Group Processing in Separate Files
White Paper When exporting a single graph to a specific file, one can name the output file using a FILENAME statement. If one produces several graphs from a single procedure using a BY statement, they will each be written to that same file. [30 Jun 2008]
