Data Warehousing with SAS Wilbram HazejagerProduct ManagerSAS Warehouse Administrator® softwareSAS EMEA

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Agenda! Introduction! Data Warehousing! Future Developments! Questions and Answers

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The SAS Intelligence Architecture is a low-risk framework that integrates our industry-leading capabilities in data warehousing, advanced analytics, and business intelligence to provide an intelligence framework that can grow and adjust with your enterprise.

Intelligence Architecture

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Data Warehousing Data Warehousing is the ongoing process that brings together data from any distributed source, manages it, and transforms it into information that has a positive influence on your company's bottom line. SAS offers an end-to-end, award winning Data Warehousing solution backed by a proven development andimplementation Methodology, as part of SAS’ Intelligence Architecture.

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Data Warehousing

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Capture! Gather requirements ! Determine sources! Set up extractions! Use all existing rules,

documentation, models and metadata

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Integrate! Take any existing

metadata and turn into business terms, not IT terms.!Rules!Metrics!Processes

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Automate! Make processes

!Repeatable!Manageable!Cost Effective

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Metadata Management! Enrich metadata! Manage metadata ! SAS does this

automatically for you!

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High level challenges! Disparate data sources, platforms, and operational

systems! Independent operational and business data views ! Failure to turn raw data into actionable knowledge! Limited resources and budgets! Hard-to-access information ! No way of leveraging varying

employee skill sets! Aging and changing technologies

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SAS Provides ! Integrated, platform-independent technologies

covering over 100 data sources and 40 supported platforms

! Warehousing tools that manage metadata from business rules, processes and metrics to transformations.

! Market leadership across the entireintelligence creation process –

end to end supplier of intelligence

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What should a DW Solution give you?! Alleviate the complexity of data management ! Easily accommodate needs of business users

and IT professionals ! A simple, cost-effective way to access data,

regardless of its source! Provide a true 360-degree view of the enterprise! Do more than collect and store the information;

it would manage and share it. 1 of 2

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What should a DW Solution give you?! Provide information in a ready-to-consume

format where quality is never in question. ! Easy to maintain and manage, flex with changing

business needs, and be low-risk. 2 of 2

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What you get with SAS and warehousing! Streamline the integration and management

of your information ! Provide a foundation for quality information

throughout the enterprise! Grow and adjust with your enterprise needs

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Why use SAS for data warehousing! Simplifies the ongoing operation of a data

warehouse environment through unique SAS process management capabilities.

! The SAS warehousing solution integrateswith our advanced analytical and business

intelligence applications to form the SAS Intelligence Architecture.

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Data Warehousing: Sprint! Global Telecommunication Company

!Serving 23 million customers in 70 countries!Using a suite of SAS products to build a DW!Consolidating over 25 data sources into 1 platform!Automating ETL process for efficiency

Almost everything we want to do we can do inside of SAS, and it's all integrated and seamless.

Flint CraverSystems Development Manager

Sprint Marketing Information Solutions Group

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Data Warehousing: Barclays! UK-based Global Provider of Financial Services

!17 million customers!Using a SAS data warehouse!Deliver Mortgage Limit information to sales people at

the point of customer contact

The customer feels he has received a great service without paperwork. ROI was achieved in eight weeks.

Pankaj MistryData Warehouse Manager

Credit Risk Management - Barclays

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How do we do this?Latest developments! The SAS Scalable Architecture

! Metadata! Management Console ! ngWarehouse Administrator – Managing the ETL

process! Application Servers

Version 9

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Benefits of Centralized Metadata! A central storage environment! A secure storage environment! Organized by business relationships! Reusability of defined information! Sharability across application users

! Supports impact analysis! Supports business drill-down

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Open Metadata Architecture

OMG CWM! Member of CWM

working group responsible for the definition of the standard.

OMG CWM! Member of CWM

working group responsible for the definition of the standard.

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Benefits of the Open Metadata Architecture! Common model with support for extensions! Multi-tiered approach! Single tool to manage metadata for all SAS

applications! Support industry standards for metadata

interchange

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SMC

Maintenance!License Mgr! Install

informationMonitor

Policy !Authorization!Access Control!Resources

Environment!Metadata!Servers!Application!User Mgr !SAS Processes

SAS Management Console

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SAS Management Console Metadata Manager ! Manage repository

servers. ! Manage Resource

templates.

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Screenshot of SAS Management Console

Technology Knowledge CentreThursday 13 June 09:00-10:30 / 13:30-15:00

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" Java-based thin client" Wizard-driven interface" Multi-user operation" Multi-level (dev, test,

prod) operation" Common metadata

server a key feature" Leverages SAS Scalable

Architecture

ngWarehouse AdministratorManaging the ETL process

ngWarehouse Administrator

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Functionality re-used from Query componentFunctionality re-used from Query component

Technology Knowledge CentreWednesday 12 June 16:30-18:00Thursday 13 June 10:30-12:00

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SAS Application Servers! Scalable Architecture

! SAS/ACCESS threaded reads! Threaded procedures! SAS/CONNECT using MP CONNECT

Stream2 (Intelligent Storage and Architectures):Wednesday 12 June 17:10Scaling up and out: the value proposition of the SAS® Scalable Architecture (Cheryl Doninger)

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SAS ManagementConsole

• Server Definitions• Version Control• Change Management

• Server Definitions• Version Control• Change Management

SAS ApplicationServers

SAS ngWarehouse Administrator

• Warehouse Processess• Warehouse Processess

• Accessing libraries• Processing data• Accessing libraries• Processing data

SAS MetadataServer

DEV/TEST/PROD

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Conclusion

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Conclusion! Enterprise-wide data warehousing requires:

! integration of all DW components!automation of all processes!documentation of all processes

! SAS software provides the framework to achieve the enterprise data warehouse

Questions?

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