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The Enterprise Melting Pot: Everyone's a SAS User - They Just Don't Know It

Category: Data Management, Software and Web Development

Tags: business intelligence, computing, data warehouse, applications, data

Overview This paper describes the business intelligence effort for the Decennial Census through implementation of SAS Business Intelligence. The intended audience for this paper is organizations that are just beginning to implement common enterprise-wide computing that want insight into the decision process. The paper highlights what worked for them, how they made the decisions they did, and how one can benefit from their lessons learned. The environment consists of separate stovepipe applications; even the data warehouse was a stovepipe. All the usual problems associated with stovepipe systems development exist at the Census Bureau such as data duplication, conflicting data definitions, and turf wars, etc.

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Publisher: SAS Institute
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Jun 2, 2007
Format: White Papers
Topics: Application Development, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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