part three

administration and data loading

The SAS Visual Analytics solution provides a remarkably powerful and dynamic set of software tools with which you can accomplish astounding feats of large-scale digital data manipulation and analysis. It’s important to understand how those software tools function and interoperate so that you can get the best and most efficient operations out of them.

In this part you will learn additional methods for loading data, how to administer the LASR Analytic Server, and tips for tuning your system.

•   Chapter 8 Loading Data

The SAS LASR Analytic Server supports a wide-range of data sources. This chapter briefly explains what types of sources are supported as well as the considerations of serial versus parallel loading.

•   Chapter 9 LASR Administration

To successfully maintain the SAS LASR Analytic Server, the SAS administrator should be familiar with the SAS Business Intelligence architecture, Hadoop architecture, and how their respective software services inter-operate.

•   Chapter 10 Performance Considerations

SAS software offers the enterprise an extremely flexible deployment and operational architecture. Optimizing the software for your data and users for best utilization is a necessary step. This chapter discusses the considerations for scalability, availability, and efficiency.