Identity Synchronization Made Even Easier with Metacoda’s New Identity Sync Plug-in

SAS® Platform Administrators, are you looking for an easier way to bulk load identities into the SAS metadata repository from enterprise directories such as Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) or LDAP? Do you also need a friendly interface to visualize, check and troubleshoot your metadata? Do you find you don’t have the time to learn how […]

Confidence from Metadata Security Testing

In the past, with departmental data within the perimeters of an organization, security was sometimes a secondary concern. These days, with shared enterprise environments, external workers, cloud, and BYOD, security is often paramount. You may have seen security predictions for 2015 such as: Security becoming the killer app for big data analytics by IDC and […]

Metacoda Plug-ins V4.0 with Metadata Security Testing!

We’re excited to let our customers and other SAS users know that Metacoda Plug-ins version 4.0 is now available! We demonstrated an early version at SAS Global Forum 2014 in March, and Paul Homes presented a paper highlighting the new automated SAS metadata testing framework. (You can read about the paper on his PlatformAdmin.com blog.) […]

What’s your perspective?

I saw this cartoon a while ago and I thought it depicted an interesting and humorous notion of perspective. It shows how an individual’s perception depends on how they assess and action a situation. Similarly, I’ve heard a Japanese proverb about perspective that says… The reverse side also has a reverse side. :-) The thought […]

Helping SAS Customers Get More Value From Metadata

In a recent video interview by SAS® Institute, Michelle Homes from Metacoda spoke about our unique partnership, including how we help organisations get extra value out of their SAS software. She also talks about the growth of SAS user communities, such as QUEST, and how SAS Visual Analytics is a revolutionary product that delivers fast […]

Conditional Grants in SAS Visual Analytics

At Metacoda we thrive on metadata and enjoy building software to help organizations review, search, explore and manage their SAS® Software metadata more easily. With more SAS customers embracing SAS Visual Analytics, we’ve been asked whether our Metacoda Security Plug-ins software can show SAS Visual Analytics metadata and YES it can! SAS Visual Analytics connects […]

What’s your game plan for security?

We begin the season with great enthusiasm. A coach will put together a game plan based on how they see the season playing out. But, as the season progresses the plan may need to be modified to suit the new conditions. Even within a game, the team needs to regroup and discuss strategy based on […]

Metacoda is a sponsor at SAS Forum France 2013

Decision Network, a Metacoda affiliate in France, will be presenting our offering at the upcoming SAS® Forum France 2013 (#SASFF13). Be sure to attend Gregory Becquembois’ presentation at 2:30pm, Wednesday 6th November 2013, to hear about Metacoda Plug-ins and to get a Metacoda Koala afterwards. We hope that #SASFF13 attendees send us photos of the […]

Metacoda Plug-ins 3.0 R4

We’ve just released an update to our Metacoda Plug-ins software (3.0 R4). Some of the changes in this new R4 release include: A new Password Encoder utility that can be used to convert plain text passwords into SAS® pwencode format. This Password Encoder is a free-of-charge plug-in like the ACT Reviewer and Metacoda Explorer. Paul […]

Metacoda Plug-ins 3.0 R3

Today is a very exciting day! SAS Institute released SAS® 9.4, packed with lots of new features and improvements. You can find all the details in their What’s New in SAS 9.4 document. At Metacoda, we are particularly excited about the new SAS Environment Manager and SAS Web Application Server, together with enhancements to the […]