Functionaly is added to SAS/ACCESS Interface to Aster nCluster to use control characters for the delimiter and quote characters when bulk loading. New data set options BL_ESCAPE=<

Translation updates for the French language are available for SAS Anti-Money Laundering 4.2. The updates are to the Help system only.

After installing AML 4.2 Some table translations are not available. Manual editing is necessary for antimnyldncf_config.xml to surface french translation

Value (n): a fair return or equivalent in goods, services or money for something exchanged; relative worth, utility or importance; a numerical quantity that is assigned or is determined by calculation; something (as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable

Competition can be a complicated thing. There was a distinct sense of competition between Michelangelo and one of his contemporaries, Bramante, who was fiercely jealous of Michelangelo’s incredible talent. Once, when Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to build him an extravagant tomb, Michelangelo took to it with his usual fervour and spent eight months in a marble quarry selecting and cutting the most perfect pieces of marble. While Michelangelo was away, Bramante had deviously influenced the Pope to cancel the project. Some years later, when the Pope commissioned a new project, Bramante turned down what he saw as an arduous task with little possibility of recognition. Instead, Bramante proposed that Pope Julius select Michelangelo for this time waster, to keep the master busy and away from the limelight.

Michelangelo was no fool ... he knew of Bramante’s deception and took on the project with vigour. He spent many years working tediously under physically exhausting conditions to complete the project. Bramante had miscalculated. The outcome was so breathtaking that it has become recognised as Michelangelo’s most iconic work. It was the Sistine Chapel.
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In SAS size="-1">® Information Map Studio, calculated measures use one of the following aggregation types: Defined in expression (non-additive) Defined in expressi

In order to use a shared prompt in an OLAP-based information map, the prompt must meet the following requirements: The Prompt Type is OLAP member . The Data Source for the

Beginning with SAS size="-1">® 9.2, filters can be defined as part of SAS size="-1">® Information Map that uses a cube as its data source. (The behavior of these filter

When a comment variable is used as a reporting variable, the Details Table or Text Analysis might fail if the input text data does not contain enough variation for text mining. This can occur if the comment variable contains the same string.

The POS snd NEG options in PROC HPFDIAGNOSE are for variable SELECTION only. They are not parameter RESTRICTION options. When you run PROC HPFDIAGNOSE using the INPUT statement, possible option choices inclu

Ingrid Zeegers is responsible at Philips’ development and design of sustainable business. Zeegers is one of the exponents of the principles of cradle-to-cradle in The Netherlands, and under her supervision the Electronics division now has a different view on the use of materials, energy efficiency and product propositions. A view that leads to considerable savings. Innovative solutions, like the EnergyCare vacuum cleaner, have been developed under the Philips Green logo. “Sustainability requires systems innovation and is a shared responsibility of the entire organization
and its value chain.”

What are good examples of sustainable entrepreneurship?
"A new generation of companies is completely focused on sustainability. Very inspiring are the hybrid tuk-tuk (a motrized mini taxi in Asia) and the energy generating dance floor of Enviu. Innovaders is doing well with the Wattcher. This smart gadget gives an insight into the energy consumption at home, and helps private individuals with saving energy. Fashion brand Kuyichi has become internationally successful with organic cotton, including clothing and bags that have been produced according to fair trade principles.”

Ingrid ZeegersHow has sustainable entrepreneurship taken shape within your organization?
"The first environmental activities began in 1972 after the publication of the report ‘The limits to growth: a global challenge’ by The Club of Rome. Frits Philips was also involved with this. Since 1994, improving the environment has been a core objective of our company, and sustainability has become integrated in corporate processes. The EcoVision 4 program runs from 2007 to 2012 and contains ambitious targets. For instance, 30 percent of the turnover in 2012 must come from green products. In order to realize this target, a technical innovation program for the entire value chain has already been ongoing for two years. We are sharing knowledge with suppliers and waste processors and are thinking of new business models together.”

Where should the responsibility for sustainability lie within an organization?
“Philips wants to embed sustainability in all positions. After all, everyone can think along on how we can do things smarter.”

What are realistic targets to set within an organization?
“It is important to articulate a serious ambition. Our goal is to realize 30 percent of the total revenue in 2012 via green products, with a 25 percent higher efficiency in energy consumption than in 2007. Furthermore, 1 billion Euros has to be invested in sustainability. We use sustainable performance indicators to measure this. Philips annually accounts for all of these aspects in the sustainability report, which is checked by an accountant.”

How sustainable are you in daily life?
“I do notice that I am becoming increasingly sustainable in my daily routine. I go to the health food store, I no longer have a car, I use energy-saving bulbs and eat less meat. I recently bought the Wattcher, which is so much fun. Just as in my work, I notice that it is still quite difficult to find."

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Starting in SAS 9.1, the WORK library can reside in a directory of any Unix file system (UFS) supported on z/OS, including HFS, zFS, and NFS. Background Information: In a single-user SAS session or job, the WORK

More than a year ago, SAS made a strategic decision to strengthen our focus on the U.S. intelligence community (IC) by forming a new business unit (SAS Federal, LLC). Since then, the explosion of data in the IC has only grown and the threats to national security continue to evolve more rapidly.

In my opinion, there’s an urgent need for the application of advanced analytics in the IC to defeat national security threats and, ultimately, save lives. SAS took a big step towards meeting that need today with the acquisition of Vision Systems and Technology, Inc. (VSTI), a professional services company that has been delivering analytic solutions to the U.S. IC for over a decade.

VSTI specializes in culling all but the most relevant data so that agencies can make decisions much quicker. Combining that with SAS’ analytics prowess will create a unique offering in the IC.

During this process I’ve gotten to know VSTI’s leadership, particularly CEO Dwayne Robinson and CTO Bryan Harris. They, and the people they lead, are some of the most brilliant, dedicated technologists I’ve come across and I’m confident that there is no better company to deliver the power of SAS to the folks protecting this country.

I’m very excited about what the future holds. Dwayne and Bryan have been soaking up info on SAS technology like sponges and have amazing ideas about what we can accomplish. (Bryan was the proverbial kid in the candy when he started reading about SAS Social Media Analytics©.)

I’ll share more as we go down this road, and it will require little arm twisting to get Dwayne and Bryan talking, too!

When logging into SAS Web Report Studio you might see this error message: The authentication system is not responding. Please contact your syst

I'm learning again and again this year that the act of blogging during a conference helps me retain more information than I would if I did not blog. I've always been a diligent note taker, though. That's the way I learn and process information. Even when I never even use or refer back to my notes from meetings, the act of writing them helps me prioritize and internalize the content.

When you publish 16 posts from a single event, though, a second read or summarization is useful. Not only to catch typos (which I'm still doing), but also to refresh yourself on what you learned. As I'm been reviewing all the blog posts we wrote for The Premier Business Leadership Series in Berlin, I've been pulling out nuggets of information worth repeating. It's been hard to narrow down the list, but the purpose here is brevity, so I give you 10 lessons from The Premier Business Leadership Series, Berlin.

1. Analytics on its own will not bring change; it needs to be accompanied by compelling stories. Stories bring context to the analysis and reason to act.
   
2. Set your analytic aspirations in line with your budget and resources. If you are a smaller organization, prepare for evolution rather than revolution.
   
3. Banking is not about credit and risk. It's about people.
   
4. 3 tips for doing more with less in IT: Rationalize and standardize; empower employees; and empower end users.
   
5. Don’t ask, “What’s the state of art in retail analytics?” Instead, look within and find an important problem to solve.
   
6. Analytics are not worthwhile if you don't provide the results of your analyses to decision makers in a useful format.
   
7. We are living through a monumental moment in history where major changes in the business environment are taking place every five years.
   
8. Repeatability, quality, reliability and cost-efficiency are the enemies of innovation.
   
9. Everything online that's big and good started as little and good.
   
10. Avoid using technology for its own sake. Instead, always develop products that solve real customer problems.

Dennis Pamlin is a senior associate at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences. As a strategic economic, technology and innovation advisor, Dennis works with companies and government on sustainability initiatives such as IKEA goes renewable. He also initiated World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Trade and Investment Program work in the BRIC countries. “It is time to move beyond incremental improvements and tap into the potential that the new generation of technologies provides,” says Dennis about his work.

What are good examples of sustainable business initiatives?
“My heart goes out to organizations that are making changes that will allow them to keep making profits, whilst reducing the overall resource consumption. BYD for instance, that built the world's first mass-produced, plug-in hybrid car. In Baoding, a relatively small city in China, 150 new alternative energy companies have emerged, making use of wind and solar power, bio-diesel, and energy efficiencies. Telecom operators and major ICT companies such as Cisco, Ericsson, HP, IBM and SAS also offer interesting solutions to deliver real sustainability.”

How has sustainable entrepreneurship taken shape within your organization?
“We’re the first generation of global citizens. The global economy and challenges require that we think as such. Also, the new network economy is not about competition, but about collaboration. My mission is to make sure that making and saving money go together. I help companies and governments see the same map of the same economy and to move from concept to reality and find new markets and customers.”

Who in the organization should be responsible for building sustainability strategies?
“The CEO and board must be fully committed. Also, it must be clear that everyone in the organization is involved. Sustainability will never happen if only Environmental Health & Safety and Corporate Social Responsibility departments are held responsible.”
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Several of us at SAS are gearing up for the 16th annual ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. If you are not familiar with this, it is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. The KDD-2010 program features keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the famous KDD Cup competition!

SAS is proud to be a sponsor of KDD-2010 this year. Our onsite team includes SAS Product Management, Research & Development, and Product Marketing. We'll be heading to Washington, DC from July 25-28 to attend the conference and demo our software in the booth - including the latest data mining and text analytics capabilities. Please look out for us and say hello, stop by the booth and learn what’s new! Be sure to enter to win a copy of the Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications – in the meantime, you can download a chapter excerpt on Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes.

To learn more from SAS at the event, you can also attend the Poster Reception II and Demo Session on Tuesday night in Indepedence Center B for a demo on Automatic Topic Discovery presented by James Cox and Richard Foley.

For those of you heading to DC, I’d encourage you to click here to access the official KDD-2010 Social Networking Interactive Schedule. I just updated my account, which allows you to update and add talks to your conference schedule calendar using Outlook or other popular calendar programs, leave notes, ask questions to presenters, and engage in other ways. Check it out! If you are the social media type, you’ll probably also want to follow @kdd_news on twitter as well. If you aren't going, take a peak at The Text Frontier Blog later this month to get our perspective on the event!

Poor performance might be experienced running ETL with Oracle libraries. This is due to a large number of select statements.

If it is necessary to prevent access to a SAS® Web Analytics webmart during the ETL process, add the following code to the weba_1100 process: data _null_; set &webmart; rc=metadata_setatt

This Usage Note provides some tips for creating and troubleshooting Custom Input Forms for SAS Stored Processes that are executed using the SAS Stored Process Web Application.