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The Enterprise Melting Pot: Everyone's a SAS User - They Just Don't Know It

Overview This paper describes the business intelligence effort for the Decennial Census through implementation of SAS Business Intelligence. The intended audience for this paper is organizations that are just beginning to implement common enterprise-wide computing that want insight into the decision process. The paper highlights what worked for them, how they made the decisions they did, and how one can benefit from their lessons learned. The environment consists of separate stovepipe applications; even the data warehouse was a stovepipe. All the usual problems associated with stovepipe systems development exist at the Census Bureau such as data duplication, conflicting data definitions, and turf wars, etc.

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Publisher	SAS Institute	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Application Development

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