As a SAS Administrator or Developer, gaining a deep understanding of how your SAS environment is utilized is vital for optimizing performance and achieving business goals. While SAS provides a default report summarizing audit data, its limited scope often falls short for comprehensive analysis.
That’s why we’ve created enhanced User Activity Reports that go beyond the standard, offering extended data ranges and actionable insights tailored to your needs. These reports are trusted by clients to track user behavior, monitor application performance, and optimize resource allocation – all with customizable options to align with unique business requirements.
Why Gain Insights into User Activity?
Analyzing user activity empowers businesses to:
What Makes Our Reports Stand Out?
Our User Activity Reports offer clear and intuitive insights, designed to support both short- and long-term decision-making.
Short-Term Report Highlights:
Long-Term Report Highlights:
Why Choose Our Custom User Activity Report Over the Default SAS Report?
While the default SAS audit report, ‘User Activity Report’, provides a good starting point with insights into report usage and login frequency over time, it has some limitations. It contains sensitive information about identifiable users and lacks details on table and library usage. To address these shortcomings, we developed our own user activity report with the following key improvements:
Our reports therefore address common limitations of SAS's default reports, such as sensitive user data, ambiguous variables, and irrelevant metrics, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations while delivering more actionable insights.
Real-World Impact: Client Use Cases
Our enhanced User Activity Reports have been instrumental in helping businesses overcome challenges, optimize performance, and drive success. Here are some examples of how clients have benefited from our tailored solutions:
1. Customized Usage Tracking
A client wanted to monitor how their reports were being used – particularly over a weekly timeframe – to better align development efforts. We customized the short-term report to focus on weekly report usage, highlighting the most accessed reports and user interaction trends. This allowed them to prioritize improvements based on actual usage, ensuring their resources were directed where they mattered most.
2. Application Performance Monitoring
A company relying on critical applications needed a way to detect issues before they escalated. By leveraging our short-term report, they could track application usage, identify failures early, and resolve them proactively. This helped maintain high system reliability, reducing downtime and improving user satisfaction.
3. Long-Term User Interaction Insights
A client sought to analyze long-term trends in report usage and user behavior. We customized the long-term report to track report creation, frequent updates. Additionally, we adapted the definition of "read actions" to count all reads by a single user within one hour as one action, reducing redundancy and providing clearer metrics. With this data, they refined their reporting strategy and improved the relevance of their reports.
4. Resource Allocation Optimization
Efficient resource management was a key priority for a client who wanted to ensure their systems were available when users needed them most. By analyzing long-term login patterns, they aimed to identify peak usage times and allocate resources accordingly.
Using our long-term User Activity Report, we provided insights into user access trends and login frequency. This enabled the client to optimize their resource allocation, ensuring that critical systems were fully operational during high-demand periods. The result was a more efficient use of resources, enhanced user satisfaction, and improved operational performance.
Tailored Solutions for Every Business
With our enhanced User Activity Reports, you’re not just getting data, you’re gaining a tool that evolves with your business. Whether it’s optimizing performance, enhancing user experiences, or driving operational efficiency, our reports are designed to deliver the insights you need to succeed.
Interested? Let us help you implement our User Activity Reports to optimize your business performance. Contact us today to discover the possibilities!
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