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Just Go With The Flow! With SAS® Data Integration Studio

The document discusses SAS Data Integration Studio, defining it as a visual tool for building and managing data integration processes. It outlines major advantages like metadata support, visual workflow, integration capabilities, and scheduling. A few minor disadvantages are an increased complexity of installation and learning curve.

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Just Go With The Flow! With SAS® Data Integration Studio

The document discusses SAS Data Integration Studio, defining it as a visual tool for building and managing data integration processes. It outlines major advantages like metadata support, visual workflow, integration capabilities, and scheduling. A few minor disadvantages are an increased complexity of installation and learning curve.

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Just Go with the Flow!

with SAS® Data Integration Studio


Goals of the Presentation
 Background Information
 Define SAS Data Integration
 Define SAS Data Integration (DI) Studio
 Major Features and Advantages of Data Integration
Studio.
 Disadvantages of SAS Data Integration Studio.
 Above all, to encourage you to “just go with the flow”
and give SAS Data Integration Studio a try.

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Background Information
 Statistics Canada
 350 Surveys
 SAS Data Integration Studio is a natural fit
 Research Project

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What is Data Integration?
 Imagine two puzzles

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What is SAS Data Integration Studio
 According to my SAS course notes, “it is a visual design
tool for building processes,
 Implementing processes AND
 managing processes

Regardless Of:

 Data sources,
 Applications, OR
 Platforms

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Advantages of DI Studio

 Meta Data rich ($) – Meta data on just about any object you
use in Data Integration Studio.
 Visual – It is almost like working on a flow chart.

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Advantages of DI Studio

 Can be Integrated with SAS® Dataflux (More Integration


with the release of SAS 9.3 suite of products).
 Ability to create stored processes and SOA modules.
 Ability to schedule jobs via the SAS® Platform Scheduler
(an industrial strength scheduler).

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Advantages of DI Studio

 Import Existing Code.


 Ability to push the processing to the database

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Advantages of DI Studio

 Import Existing Code.


 Ability to push the processing to the database

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Advantages of DI Studio

 Integration of Third Party Source Control starting with


SAS Data Integration Studio 9.3.

 SAS Data Integration Studio can leverage the security that


is set up from within the SAS platform.

 Can build tables quickly by importing column definitions


from other tables.

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Advantages of DI Studio

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Advantages of DI Studio
 Impact Analysis

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Advantages of DI Studio

 Performance Statistics
 Start Time, End Time, Duration CPU Time
 CPU Time, Current Memory
 System Memory
 Number of threads.
 Can run jobs on a grid

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Some Disadvantages of DI Studio

Not Many…..
 Installation is more complex.
 There is a learning curve. Training is required.
 MetaData administrator required.

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DI Studio Summary

In summary, DI Studio is the ideal tool for integrating


data across the organization. DI Studio accomplishes
task in a very transparent, organized and secure
fashion. It has many advantages and very few
disadvantages.

Questions?

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Contact Information

David Dean
Technical Consultant, Statistics Canada
R.H. Coats 14O
Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
1-613-951-5052
[email protected]

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