Business Intelligence Consultants

Add-in task for Enterprise Guide

David Shannon, Amadeus Software Limited
David.Shannon@amadeus.co.uk

Amadeus Software Limited, formed in 1989, has been building a unique reputation in the Business Intelligence arena, from the design and implementation of enterprise data warehouses to the delivery of key business information for more effective decision-making. We combine rapid applications development with outstanding functionality and performance.

The Demographics Summary task for Enterprise Guide creates a tabular report of demographic data. The purpose of distributing this add-in (custom task) is to demonstrate the extensibility features of Enterprise Guide. Add-ins can be created to perform any function what-so-ever that the Windows operating system supports.

A paper from Amadeus Software ("My Enterprise Guide", available upon request) discusses how this add-in was built. This Demographics Summary add-in has been tested with SAS Enterprise Guide 3.0 or newer.

The following partial report is an example of what can be achieved with this add-in, through a few simple mouse-clicks.

New discussion forums

Discussion forums open another channel of interaction with and among SAS customers

SAS employees love to talk to SAS customers. We like to hear our customers talk to each other about using SAS. As a company, we continually do a number of things to help make those conversations happen. We send a large number of R&D employees to SUGI, recently renamed SAS Global Forum. In March, we announced the addition of discussion forums to the SAS Customer Support Center. This addition opens a new channel for interaction, giving us and our customers and partners worldwide a forum in which to share ideas and benefit from the collective knowledge and experiences of one another.

We are excited about the opportunity to promote interactive communication with and between our customers and partners. These forums are a place for all generations of SAS users to take advantage of online technology to quickly locate information on a specific topic, connect with other knowledgeable users on that topic and participate in focused conversations. Currently discussion topics are SAS Enterprise Guide, Integration with Microsoft Office, SAS Stored Processes, ODS and Base Reporting, and SAS and Clinical Trials. The creation of discussion forums to promote and support the online community is just another step in maintaining our customer relationships and listening to our customers is the most important thing that we can do.

Discussion forums are a global tool that we provide for our customers to communicate among themselves with SAS guidance and support as required. The forums are not a substitute for the Technical Support Division at SAS. If you have a specific problem that requires one-on-one support, or the exchange of files to diagnose an issue, Technical Support continues to be your first channel of communication.

So let us hear you talking! Join the discussion!

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SAS Press webinar series

Alex Dmitrienko, BISUG founder

I do not normally use this forum to advertise my own papers or presentations but in this case I feel that BISUG members can benefit from a presentation I will be giving as part of the SAS Press webinar series on May 11 (12:30-1:15 p.m. EST). The title of the presentation is Using SAS Software in the Design of Clinical Trials and I am planning to talk about the role of standard SAS tools (SAS macros) and Enterprise Guide add-in (custom tasks) in clinical trial applications. Specifically, I will focus on the add-in that facilitates the design of group sequential clinical trials. The add-in can be downloaded from the Business Intelligence Exchange page [Task bixph002].

The SAS webinar series is a series of free web-based presentations that include a 15-minute question and answer session. To sign-up for the May 11 webinar, please visit the registration page. Once again, the registration is free.

Michael Raithel and Jack Shostak have given interesting presentations in this series on February 21 and March 21, respectively, and the last webinar will be given by Kirk Lafler on May 25.