This course provides comprehensive training for SAS Profitability Management. The course covers key concepts and focuses on building a profitability model and generating dynamic reports. In addition to model design techniques and validation, the course covers advanced reporting, which includes identifying alternative SAS tools for analyzing SAS Profitability Management data. (For example, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Data Integration Studio, and SAS Profitability Management Studio are also used in this class.) The course concludes with project implementation. This self-study course includes structured course notes that provide a detailed overview, essential skills, and exercises, along with a software Virtual Lab to practice.

The e-learning includes:

• digital course notes for self-study
• Virtual Lab: 30 hours of hands-on software practice

Learn how to

• build and update a SAS Profitability Management model
• recognize the relationship between rules and behaviors
• update an existing model with new data
• analyze model data using OLAP reporting tools.

Who should attend End users and technical analysts (representing a range of industries, including telecommunications, banking, and large remote retail companies), specifically those who want to be able to quickly calculate point profit for customer transactions using SAS Profitability Management Formats available Duration
: 21 hours/180 day license

Before attending this course, you should have domain experience. Familiarity with OLAP reporting is helpful but not required.

No programming courses in Base SAS are required. Training about the business intelligence applications that make up the platform for SAS Business Analytics is an appropriate follow-up to this course.

This course addresses SAS Profitability Management software.

What Is SAS Profitability Management?

• course objectives and overview
• what is SAS Profitablity Management?
• data flow and applications used in class
• the FASHBI case study
• viewing a report on the Web client

Understanding Dimensionality

• what are dimensions?
• introducing SAS Enterprise Guide

Building the Model

• overview and the star schema
• building a model
• dimension tables and SAS Data Integration Studio
• transaction tables
• transaction tables and the model
• rules tables
• behavior tables and model calculation

Reporting

• reporting overview
• report definition tables
• creating reports
• viewing reports
• advanced reporting tools

Validating and Updating the Model

• model validation
• updating the model

Model Design

• reviewing the core tables
• table dependencies: transaction and dimension tables
• table dependencies: table groups and the assignment rules table
• table dependencies: rule association and behavior tables
• table dependencies: the report tables
• model design
• skills for a successful project

Using What You Learned

• a consolidation and integration exercise using the skills taught in class

Data Management

• organizing the data
• SAS Management Console
• adding a library
• adding a server

Sample Tables

• SAS Profitability Management tables

Table Dependencies

Calculation Diagrams

• introduction
• calculation based on a unit rate
• calculations based on a total rate

PFM21.