SAS Data Integration Studio P3:This manual is a companion to the online Help for SAS Data Integration Studio. The Help describes all windows in SAS Data Integration Studio, and it summarizes the main tasks that you can perform with the software. The Help includes examples for all source designer wizards, all target designer wizards, and all transformation templates in the Process Library tree. | 5 Introduction to SAS Data Integration Studio The SAS Intelligence Platform 5 About the Platform Tiers 5 What Is SAS Data Integration Studio 6 Important Concepts 6 Process Flows and Jobs 6 How Jobs Are Executed 7 Identifying the Server That Executes a Job 7 Intermediate Files for Jobs 7 How Are Intermediate Files Deleted 8 Features of SAS Data Integration Studio 9 Main Software Features 9 The SAS Intelligence Platform About the Platform Tiers SAS Data Integration Studio is one component in the SAS Intelligence Platform which is a comprehensive end-to-end infrastructure for creating managing and distributing enterprise intelligence. The platform includes tools and interfaces that enable you to do the following extract data from a variety of operational data sources on multiple platforms and build a data collection that integrates the extracted data store large volumes of data efficiently and in a variety of formats give business users at all levels the ability to explore data from the warehouse in a Web browser to perform simple query and reporting functions and to view up-to-date results of complex analyses use high-end analytic techniques to provide capabilities such as predictive and descriptive modeling forecasting optimization simulation and experimental design centrally control the accuracy and consistency of enterprise data For more information about the SAS Intelligence Platform see the SAS Intelligence Platform Overview. 6 What Is SAS Data Integration Studio A Chapter 2 What Is SAS Data Integration Studio SAS Data Integration Studio is a visual design tool that enables you to consolidate and manage enterprise data from a variety of source systems applications and technologies. This software enables you to create process flows that accomplish the following tasks extract transform and load ETL data for use in data warehouses and data marts cleanse migrate synchronize replicate and promote data for applications and business services SAS Data Integration Studio
