SAS EXPERTISE
Knoware has a strong record of successfully providing SAS consultancy services to a wide range of satisfied customers for almost 25 years.
We provide expertise across all aspects of SAS: as a Knoware managed project or as a resource to fit into an existing team.
Analysts and developers for full analytics lifecycle
Knoware provides analysts, developers and data scientists with expertise across the analytics lifecycle to address a wide range of requirements such as:
- Accessing data from source systems or other locations
- Transforming data into the most useful format for your business
- Analysing data, from simple descriptive statistics to advanced analytics
Outputs can include:
- self-service reporting
- visualisation
- traditional reporting or data feeds to other systems.
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Access data from
source systems or
other locations
Transform the data into
the most useful format
for your business
Analyse the data, from
simple descriptive
statistics to advanced
analytics
Produce the required
outputs – self-service
reporting, visualisation,
traditional reporting or data
feeds to other systems
Data preparation, integration and ETL
Knoware has the skills and experience to help with formal ETL, data wrangling, data integration or data preparation. Preparing data is by far the biggest task in analytics work, typically taking around 80% of the overall effort. Our consultants are proficient in the full range of SAS data preparation tools including:
Formal ETL (Extract, Transform and
Load) processes, to ingest data
from source systems into an
analytics data store (data
warehouse, data lake or data vault)
Data wrangling or ad-hoc data
preparation to meet immediate
analytical needs
Data integration, to incorporate
data from various disparate
systems, or to feed analytics
outputs into other systems
Preparing data is by far the biggest task in analytics work, taking typically around 80% of the overall effort.
Information delivery, reporting and visualisation
Our consultants use a variety of SAS tools and techniques to produce:
- Self-service interactive reporting and insights, using SAS VA, SAS EG, custom SAS web interfaces or MS Office SAS interfaces
- Visualisation and infographics using SAS VA and other tools
- Traditional production and ad-hoc reporting in numerous formats, including HTML, PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, XML and JSON
Design, implementation and managing effective analytics platforms
At Knoware we pride ourselves on creating effective SAS environments optimised for productive business use. Our consultants go beyond installing the SAS software and aim to deliver a fit-for-purpose user environment that is reliable and secure. We follow up by providing business and administration users with relevant training, mentoring and documentation.
We can also provide tailored hosting and/or support packages to meet your business needs.
SAS upgrades, modernisation and Cloud migration
Successful analytics capabilities and productive business users rely on a well-maintained platform. Knoware can help organisations take their SAS analytics and performance to new heights with the help of sound architecture and controlled migration to the Cloud.
Knoware can also help with:
- Supporting change management
- Upskilling users on relevant new tools and techniques
- Providing best-practice guidance for using the new enhanced environment
Knoware has a SAS modernisation and upgrade methodology that has been honed
from the experience of carrying out dozens of modernisation projects.
SAS environment and coding reviews
Knoware can provide advice and support when SAS environments or systems are not performing in an optimal manner. Problems we can assist with include:
- Performance issues
- Stability issues
- Difficulties managing and administering the environment
- Jobs taking longer to run due to Inefficient SAS code
- Difficult to understand system and SAS programs due to poor SAS coding practice
- Documentation shortcomings.
Our expert consultants can review SAS environments and systems and either report on, or directly address, the issues to improve the environment promptly.
SAS platform administration
Knoware can completely support your SAS environment saving you the need to have full-time specialist staff.
This can include:
- advice on difficult issues using our specialist knowledge
- regular environment “Health Checks”
- providing additional help in peak periods
- cover when your platform administration staff are away.
Alternatively we can provide a completely outsourced and managed platform.
A SAS environment needs to be well managed and administered to keep it running well. We offer a range of SAS platform administration services to meet differing needs.
The Knoware Difference
Our consultants go beyond simply installing the SAS software; we aim to deliver a fit-for-purpose user environment that is reliable and secure, and we follow up by providing business and administration users with relevant training, mentoring and documentation.