SAS Activity-Based Management Reviews

SAS Activity-Based Management offers OLAP drilling functions with chart/graph capabilities, allowing for data extraction and presentation preparation. Users benefit from cost tracing across multiple allocations, enabling detailed cost distribution in complex models. SAS Enterprise Guide facilitates query building without SQL, enhancing its usability. Cube generation supports data visualization on MS analysis servers, crucial for accounting tasks like cost allocation and transfer pricing. Its advanced calculations surpass Excel's capabilities, catering to sophisticated financial models.

SAS Activity-Based Management needs simplified usability and an intuitive interface. Users find it resembles a black box, complicating understanding and modification. Issues like unchanged default layout and complex data integration hinder efficiency. The absence of a 'drilling with graph function' is regrettable in new updates. Visualization of cost flow lacks user-friendliness, and analysis requires excessive time for building OLAP cubes. Consideration for more logical user constraints and competitive interface design would be beneficial.