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Learning Base SAS, Advanced SAS, Proc SQl, ODS, SAS in financial industry, Clinical trials, SAS Macros, SAS BI, SAS on Unix, SAS on Mainframe, SAS interview Questions and Answers SAS Tips and Techniques SAS Resources visit http://sastechies.blogspot.com

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Learning Base SAS, Advanced SAS, Proc SQl, ODS, SAS in financial industry, Clinical trials, SAS Macros, SAS BI, SAS on Unix, SAS on Mainframe, SAS interview Questions and Answers SAS Tips and Techniques SAS Resources visit http://sastechies.blogspot.com

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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.
 American Express
 FDA
 Citigroup
 GlaxoSmithKline  Bank of America
 Merck  Discover Financials
 Sanofi-Aventis  ETS
 Pfizer  JPMorgan Chase
 Quintiles CRO  Wells Fargo
 Aetna
 AstraZeneca
 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.

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Data numbers; Start of a Datastep
X1=1; Assigning values to x1
x2=2; x2
Run; End the datastep

Proc print Issue a Print Procedure


data=numbers; to print the dataset
numbers
Run;
End the Run statement

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