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What is SAS? Introduction to SAS Institute, Inc. Which industries use SAS? Future with SAS? Opportunities with SAS? How to learn and excel SAS? Browse thru the SAS User Interface… First SAS Program…

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SAS is a BI software product from the SAS Institute, Cary, NC

People refer SAS to as “Statistical Analytical System”….

It’s a Business Intelligence tool which can give simple answers to businesses through data mining capabilities, report generation and automation etc…..

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Know how SAS is used in Industries?

◦ Pharmaceutical – Statistical Analysis, Reporting◦ Telecom – Reporting, ETL, Data Mining, Forecasting◦ Financials - Reporting, ETL, Data Mining, Forecasting, Fin research,

Predictive modeling, DBMarketing, Activity Based Management.◦ Healthcare - Reporting, ETL, Data Mining, Forecasting

What technologies you need to know (SAS or others) to perform well in the Industry?

◦ Databases – Teradata, Oracle, SQL server, DB2◦ ETL – SAS/WA, SAS ETL (Data Integration Studio)◦ Application Development – SAS IOM Bridge, Appdev Studio, SAS/AF◦ Web Interface – SAS IntrNet, WebAF Studio◦ Reporting – SAS/EG◦ Statistics – SAS EMiner, SAS/STAT◦ Package – Enterprise BI Server

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Source: Business Week…

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All Pharmaceutical Companies involved in Clinical trials.

FDA GlaxoSmithKline Merck Sanofi-Aventis Pfizer Quintiles CRO Aetna AstraZeneca

American Express Citigroup Bank of America Discover Financials ETS JPMorgan Chase Wells Fargo Freddie Mac Fannie Mae Marriot etc…

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A whole span of career opportunities exists with the help of SAS.

◦ Business Analyst◦ Risk Analyst◦ Clinical Statisticians◦ Data warehouse

specialists◦ PM’s etc…

An excellent opportunity to get into the functional stream rather than Technical stream.

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If you have NOT done any Statistical Analysis in school then you might have NOT got a chance to learn about SAS…

SAS is easy-to-learn 4th Generation Data-centric Programming language and one of the well-paid technologies currently.

“Little SAS” book or the SAS Online tutor are good places to start with …

Require licensed version of SAS 8 or 9 software to work with..

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Next we’ll have a quick demonstration of the SAS v9.1.3 Interface…

Some of the features displayed here are –

◦ First a small SAS program◦ All the SAS window panes◦ A small SAS program with its output SAS Dataset, Log,

Explorer windows are shown….◦ SAS Export File Interface (EFI) – options for Exporting SAS

datasets to Excel, Access etc◦ All Menu items◦ SAS Online tutor and its location and chapters

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DATA steps typically create or modify SAS data sets, but they can also be used to produce custom-designed reports. For example, you can use DATA steps to

◦ put your data into a SAS data set ◦ compute the values for new variables ◦ check for and correct errors in your data ◦ produce new SAS data sets by sub-setting, merging, and updating existing data sets.

PROC (procedure) steps typically analyze and process data in the form of a SAS data set, and they sometimes create SAS data sets that contain the results of the procedure. PROC steps control a library of prewritten routines (procedures) that perform tasks on SAS data sets, such as listing, sorting, and summarizing data. For example, you can use PROC steps to ◦ print a report ◦ produce descriptive statistics ◦ create a tabular report ◦ produce plots and charts.

Data numbers;X1=1; x2=2;Run;

Proc print data=numbers;

Run;

Start of a DatastepAssigning values to x1

x2End the datastep

Issue a Print Procedure to print the dataset numbers

End the Run statement

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