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Company: Wells Fargo N.A.
Company background: Over 150 years Wells Fargo provides financial and other related services.
Contact: Nagappan Ulagappan
Title: Lead Credit Risk Officer
Country: United States
Award Category: Innovative Problem Solver
Tell us about the business problem you were trying to solve?
Metadata solutions for all analytical attributes prepared periodically.
How did you use SAS to solve that business problem? What products did you use and how did you use them?
Using SAS proc contents collected data information about variable attributes, label name, descriptions from different data sets, date and time it was prepared, user who updated the data, statistical analysis and character analysis using automated schedule job. This data was fed into web database.
What were the results or outcomes?
Web page with updated metadata
Why is this approach innovative?
It reduces the time to know about data and easier to navigate among thousands of data tables and datasets.
What advice would you give to new SAS users?
You can solve complicated problems with simple sas procedures.
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