Forecasting Using SAS Forecast Server Software

Duration: 1.0 day

Audience

This 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.

Course Description

This course 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.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should

be familiar with business forecasting problems
have experience with a Windows computing environment
have experience using a product such as Microsoft Excel to enter or transfer data and to perform elementary analyses, such as computing row and column totals and averages and producing charts and plots.

You do not need formal training in forecasting or statistics to benefit from this course. Programming experience is also not required.

Course Contents

Forecasting Using SAS Forecast Studio

producing accurate forecasts using SAS Forecast Studio

Hierarchical Forecasting

forecasting your data in a hierarchy
reconciling hierarchical forecasts
working with inputs

Producing Reports

producing reports using stored processes

Software Addressed

This course addresses the following software product(s): SAS Forecast Server, SAS/STAT. This course also addresses the SAS Forecast Studio graphical interface.

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