Training

Take advantage of additional learning opportunities while attending the conference - courses are only open to F2007 attendees. All post-conference training will take place in Building F on the SAS campus.

Forecasting Using SAS Forecast Server Software

(Wednesday, June 6)

This one-day class prepares you to generate large volumes of forecasts automatically using the SAS Forecast Studio interactive interface. You learn to manage default settings to improve forecast accuracy, produce forecasts and reconcile them across hierarchies, and produce forecasts in an appropriate form for integration with a business intelligence solution.

The course is designed for business analysts and others who want to create business forecasts using SAS Forecast Server. The course is appropriate for analysts in any industry, including retail, financial services, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.

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Using SAS High-Performance Forecasting Software

(Thursday-Friday, June 7-8)

This two-day course enables you to make accurate forecasts quickly and automatically, giving you the power to confidently plan your business operations. This course focuses on the following areas: creating programs that provide forecasts as output files or SAS data sets and structuring the programs and output so that they can be incorporated into a corporate forecasting system; assessing forecast performance and making decisions about the adequacy of initial forecasts, as well as the adequacy of forecasts that are being dynamically produced; and manually overseeing forecasting or devising automated strategies to determine when a forecast model should be updated.

This course is designed for professional forecasters and business analysts who need to produce forecasts for large numbers of time series.

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Business Forecasting Using SAS: A Point-and-Click Approach

(Wednesday-Friday, June 6-8)

This three-day course teaches business analysts how to carry out forecasting projects using the point-and-click interface in the Time Series Forecasting System in SAS/ETS software. Course topics include exponential smoothing models, autoregressive integrated moving average models, and dynamic regression models.

This course is designed for business analysts and others who want to create business forecasts using SAS/ETS software. Familiarity with business forecasting problems is recommended, but participants do not need forecasting or programming experience in order to benefit from this course.

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