SAS Code Optimization

Summary

After using your SAS processes for several years, you may have noticed a significant decrease in performance.
Indeed, the data volume, number of concurrent processes, and the number of people using your programs can significantly reduce the performance of your code, as they were originally created for a very specific framework some years ago.
At BeOptimized, our experts have the knowledge to help you monitor, analyze, and optimize your code and processing workflows.
SAS is widely recognized for its strong performance in handling big data. As a general guideline, if a 10-step process involving fewer than 1,000,000 records takes more than 30 seconds to execute, it may indicate a performance issue. While a 30-second runtime might be acceptable in a monthly batch process, it could be problematic for use cases that require real-time or near-real-time execution..

Why not call upon a BeOptimized professional consultant to help you optimize your codes?

Optimization

Benefits

  • Experienced SAS consultant with + 17 years of field experience.
  • Coach your employee AND improve your code
  • Possibility to be coached on optimization technics
  • Fully SAS-certified expert and accredited SAS trainer

SAS Products

Practical

  • Pay as you go service
  • Book a meeting room at your office and we can start when you are ready
  • Can be done remotly
  • No company laptop required
  • Lot of availabilities
  • Free support for up to one month after the coaching session.
  • Contact us for more information

Service Description

BeOptimized’s Optimization Service is not a traditional "time and materials" consulting offer – it’s a focused, pay-as-you go service. You’re not hiring a consultant for several months to debug or develop SAS code.
The analysis and optimization are carried out by the process owner in collaboration with BeOptimized, in a coaching-style approach. There’s no need to provide a dedicated laptop or workstation for the consultant.
For this service we only need 2 things: a SAS process to improve and a process owner to guide on SAS optimization technics !

BeOptimized SAS Code Optimization Services consists of individual coaching sessions on your SAS code where optimization technics are used and explained in order to improve SAS code efficiency


At the end of the engagement, the optimized process is compared to the original: it must produce identical results, but with improved performance.

Step-by-Step Approach

There are many optimization techniques and options available within SAS. However, these are not our starting point in the optimization process.
When you run SAS code, it never runs in isolation — SAS is highly dependent on its environment. That’s why our approach begins with a high-level assessment of the overall process: we analyze the environment, as well as the input and output data, before diving into the code itself. This step is essential, because the same SAS code can perform very differently depending on the context in which it's executed.

In general our steps are subdivided as follow:
  • Environment analysis
  • Data Steps, Proc Steps performance analysis
  • Review of coding practices
  • Program optimization (procedures, macro, etc.)
  • Performance tuning (In Memory, In Database, Indexing, SAS Options... etc.)
  • Possibility to be coached on optimization technics

You have a question? Please contact us for more information.

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