NEW FEATURES OF ENTERPRISE GUIDE 6.1 MATT MALCZEWSKI, SAS CANADA

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1 NEW FEATURES OF ENTERPRISE GUIDE 6.1 MATT MALCZEWSKI, SAS CANADA

2 AGENDA NEW FEATURES FOR General Users SAS Programmers Data Analysts Miscellaneous New Tasks

3 FYI Enterprise Guide 6.1 is compatible with SAS server v. 9.2, 9.3 & 9.4 Using the most recent release gives you access to the most recent functions

4 GENERAL USERS

5 GENERAL USERS ANNOTATION Notes functionality has been extended Now, keep notes in an open state Allows for easy, quick annotation of process flow details/highlights

6 GENERAL USERS PARALLEL EXECUTION OF BRANCHES Typically, EG process nodes are processed left/right, top/bottom and one at a time EG 6.1: ability to concurrently process independent branches Application starts multiple client managed workspace servers Along with other parameters, controlled by a configuration file When enabled from File Project Properties, the application will start a workspace for each branch As each workspace becomes idle, the session is ended and removed HOWEVER A branch CANNOT be executed in parallel if it references the Work library.

7 GENERAL USERS PROJECT SCHEDULING/ AUTOMATION Scheduling wizard now integrates with Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler 2.0 Creates a VBScript file This uses EG automation interface to automate execution Use C#.NET as well to do some interesting automation through the object model Access datasets, code & more

8 GENERAL USERS CREATING PROJECT LIBRARIES Previously, purvue of SAS Administrators Project Library Wizard makes defining local ad hoc libraries easy Specify LIBNAME options that are NOT listed as dedicated entry fields Enter the keyword/value for the option in the grid or enter text to include in the LIBNAME statement in the Additional Options text field Now have a personal sandbox to leverage Will exist ONLY for the duration of the SAS session... Like a temp folder

9 GENERAL USERS ODS GRAPHICS DESIGNER External program which allows for editing of ODS graphics (.SGD files) In SAS 9.4, ODS Graphics Designer can be installed: Independently of Base SAS Will work with remote servers Can be launched from EG 6.1! Leverage ODS Graphics Designer to customize graphs/output as per corporate templates, division standards, etc.

10 GENERAL USERS GENERATE RESULTS IN MANY FORMATS Through ODS, EG can output: SAS Report (the format used by SAS Web Report Studio) HTML (web format, readable by web browsers and many other programs) RTF (Rich Text Format, readable by many word processing programs) Portable Document Format (PDF, readable by Adobe Reader and other programs) Text You can override defaults or control for all output or for specific ones (from Options, or from Task itself) Allows for highly customizable output of multiple formats (reports etc.)

11 SAS PROGRAMMERS

12 SAS PROGRAMMERS Enhanced Editor is your friend many great features which are highly customizable However, others are not so obvious (code formatting, macros, code analysis)

13 SAS PROGRAMMERS Pop-up code auto completion CODE AUTO COMPLETION EG recognizes libraries, datasets, even variables within! Depends upon active connection to SAS workspace server Hover over (or press F1) for help with syntax, usage and even links to examples Toggle sensitivity within the Enhanced Editor Options

14 SAS PROGRAMMERS CODE FORMATTING The magic of formatting a.k.a. I don t like your structure, let s clean it up Customizable through the Editor Options pane

15 SAS PROGRAMMERS MACROS & SHORTCUT KEYS A keyboard macro is a sequence of Enhanced Editor operations Create a simple macro by recording a series of operations Edit the macro to insert other editor operations Abbreviation macro: only inserts a string at the current position, no other macro commands Once created, appears in the list with other commands

16 SAS PROGRAMMERS CODE ANALYSIS Analyze for Program Flow Analyze for Grid Computing Analyze for Internationalization

17 SAS PROGRAMMERS LOG SUMMARY VIEW

18 DATA ANALYST

19 DATA ANALYST BUILT-IN TASKS & CUSTOM TASKS EG 6.1 has ~90 built-in tasks A quick, easy way to generate functional SAS programs: can be opened in a code node and edited if more complexity is required Even more powerful: Custom Tasks Using C# or Visual Basic, can customize tasks for your business needs Task Template = great timesaver Establish a custom template with specific options/parameters for any given type of graphical output ONLY works for the format scheme (i.e. no variable roles are saved)

20 DATA ANALYST FILTERING & QUERYING TOOLS Data Filter and Sort Simplest querying tool, allows for very simple data filters to be defined Data Exploration Interactive development of complex filter conditions Don t have to add the data to the project Can generate a Query Builder node in the Process Flow Query Builder Most powerful tool for filtering data Perform joins on data sets and create computed columns Save templates for queries (use to define sub-queries)

21 DATA ANALYST DATA EXPLORER Read-Only Make changes to order/filter/query, Click Apply Changes to do so Note: same constraints as the parallel processing task (i.e. no Work library)

22 DATA ANALYST THE OLAP ANALYZER Define an ad hoc connection to the OLAP Server Allows you to work on OLAP Cubes

23 MISCELLANEOUS TASKS

24 MISCELLANEOUS TASKS Integration with SAS high-performance tools with the addition of the High- Performance Logistic and High- Performance Linear Regression tasks

25 MISCELLANEOUS TASKS New RFM Task

26 CONCLUSION SAS Enterprise Guide 6.1 allows many types of users to use the power of the SAS System in a familiar Windows environment It is a mature product that has a wide breadth of features to help users be productive in their work

27 QUESTIONS? TWITTER: MALCHEW LINKEDIN: MATT MALCZEWSKI