Enterprise Miner

Installing Enterprise Miner 6.2 Client – Use the install and config option!

Mar
03

Had a weird one this week.

SAS are installing a Grid environment at a customer site.

We had already installed the SAS 9.2 clients on a dedicated Citrix box, so the dev team could test the new SAS 9.2 clients / functionality.

We wanted to add a few clients, including the Enterprise Miner 6.2 client (we aren;t installing a websever so can’t use the web based java client).

So ran the install wizard, selected add additional software and then selected Enterprise Miner client.  Install wizard went through ok and completed succesfully.

But there was no Enterprise Miner shortcut on the start menu, and if I clicked the em.exe I got nada.

After a bit of tooing and froing, the answer was to run the install wizard, do a planned deployment and only select the client tier and then Enterprise Miner.

Thing that is confusing is that Enterprise Guide, Management Console, DI Studio etc all installed ok via the add additional software option.

Just not Enterprise Miner (and no error messages of course).

I won’t rant about the fact that although a lot of the SAS products/client interfaces all finally share the same infrastructure components, user interfaces and functionality (im loving shared prompts), a number of them are stil orphans in this regard (why oh why doesnt EM use std metadata connection profiles like every other SAS client!)

But if you do find that you manually install Enterprise MIner client and it just doesn’t, try a planned deployment.

 

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SAS Enterprise Miner, Delivers the goods but needs makeup (or makeover)

Jan
19

I was reading this interesting blog here from Jiangtang Hu, where he compares SAS Enterprise Miner with IBM’s Intelligent Miner and SPSS Clementine (interesting he didn’t compare Oracle’s Data Mining offering)

His outcome was SAS EM wins on most areas except the User Interface.

I must say that after doing an upgrade for a client to SAS 9.2 M3 and SAS Enterprise Miner 6.2 the other day, I logged straight into Enterprise Miner to see if it still looked as ugly as it always has, and the answer is yes.

Now I know look and feel doesn’t actually make that much of a difference to actual usability (just sales ;-) , and that SAS Enterprise Miner normally has a very limited set of users in an organisation (compared to Web Report Studio which looks damn sexy in 4.3).

But you would think that at some stage in the many upgrades and updates since SAS Enterprise Miner 4.1 the development team would have at least adopted the nice look and feel of DI Studio or the other good looking Studio interfaces.

SAS Enterprise Miner is starting to look very 80′s (especially those top buttons!) and not in a cool retro Miami Vice sort of way either!

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