What Is SAS Information Map Studio And Its Purpose?

SAS Information map Studio is used to manage SAS information map. This tool is designed for business users to analyse and build report from data warehouse. The advantage of information map is there is no need to understand data relationship. Business user can just focus on analysis and report.

What can I do with information map?

With information map you can easily create filter to subset the data in data source.

Can connect to the data sources like relational tables are multidimensional olap cube. It actually makes complex data look easy.

Role of Workspace server pooling in information map:

Workspace server creates set of workspace server processes which are available for certain type of request. They can be reused for subsequent request. The process will be launched by shared identity.

By default pooling is done at server side. All the requests are managed by object spawner in case of server side pooling.The object spawner allocates the process by using its load balancing capabilities.

We have also an option to configure client side pooling . The client side pooling is used when we access information map in SAS Web Report Studio and SAS information delivery portal. The pool administrator within the application manages that client side pooling. However the process is always instantiated by object spawner. The client side pooling is used only in case of security requirements. In the initial configuration we only have server side pooling.

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