About 4GL Apps

Custom Interfaces to the world's most powerful Analytics Platform

Who We Are

• UK Company
• SAS Subcontractor
• Focus on SAS Solutions

Products

Data Controller for SAS®	SASensei	SASjs

Plus SCL Transcoding Kit

4GL Apps - Services

• Modernisation (AF/SCL + SAS/Intrnet)
• Migration (STP web apps to Viya)
• Manifestation
• Support

Projects

• 400 user AF/SCL modernisation, 8 months, Allianz UK
• AF/SCL Data Management system, 8 months, UK Gov Dept
• Demand Planning Tool, 3 months, Der Touristik (Germany)
• SOAP Interface to Viya, 3 weeks, Swedish Gov Dept

Plus many more

What is Data Controller?

• Controlled Data Capture
• Governance
• Exploration

Designed for Regulated Industries

Why use Data Controller?

• Eliminate entire Design/Dev/Test/Promote resource cost
• Ingest 'invisible' data into SAS (silos, EUCs)
• Automatic Data Quality at source
• Showcase Lineage (SAS9)

Data Controller Customers

• Belgium: Allianz + 2 more insurers
• Canada: Bank
• Denmark: Bank
• Germany: Siemens Healthineers, Der Touristik
• Sweden: Insurer
• UK: Goverment Dept

Plus desktop users

Data Controller Partners

• Analytium (UK SAS Partner)
• Notilyze (Netherlands SAS Partner)
• Selerity (Australia SAS Partner)

Where Data Controller is most useful:

• Regulated Industries - require evidence for audit
• Customer has DI Studio data lineage
• Customer ingests excel data

What is SASjs?

1. An Opinionated Approach - which led to the development of:
2. A Collection of Tools
   • @sasjs/cli - automated deployments (CI/CD), docs and tests
   • @sasjs/core - '00s of macros for AppDev
   • @sasjs/vscode-extension - Battery Pack for VS Code
   • @sasjs/server - build apps on Base SAS
   • SASjs Seed Apps

MIT open source / free for commercial use

SASjs Stats

• Over 55k downloads
• ~ 20 contributors
• 35 Repositories

SASjs Workflow

Why use SASjs?

• Maintain velocity as complexity increases
• Faster, higher quality iterations
• Rapid on-boarding
• Tests & Documentation

Where SASjs is most useful:

• Delivering complex SAS solutions (programming based)
• Integrating SAS with other technologies
• Bespoke User Interfaces

AF/SCL

• AF + SCL
• Catalog Centric
• Manual Deployment

Modern Apps

• JS + SAS
• GIT / DB Centric
• Continuous Integration

Phase 0 - Estimate + Initial Interface

1. Prepare
2. Propose
3. Produce

Fixed Price, 2 weeks
Entirely Offsite

Resources

• https://sasjs.io/resources
• https://datacontroller.io
• https://github.com/sasjs
• https://slides.sasjs.io
• https://core.sasjs.io
• https://cli.sasjs.io
• https://sasapps.io