SAS GLOBAL ACADEMIC PROGRAM BUSINESS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER - THIRD ISSUE 2005

Dear Reader,

In the past academic year, SAS has continued to reach out extensively to business schools with software, curricula support and partnerships to help ensure that tomorrow's leaders graduate with highly sought after business intelligence and business analytics skills.
We are partnering with many of our commercial customers in countries across the globe, to assess which academic institutions are providing them with analysts and business and IT savvy graduates, and evaluate just which business intelligence and analytics skills are in demand. We'd like to thank all of you for working with us to strengthen the bond between the academic and business world.
Analytical skills, for example, are increasingly in demand - In more than 40,000 places around the globe, SAS software is empowering a higher level of business decision making with business intelligence and predictive analytics.
In this issue, we thus take a closer look at the SAS Analytical Intelligence Platform - you'll find lots of informative articles, webcasts and customer stories on many of our analytics tools like SAS/STAT, SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS forecasting technologies.

Enjoy!
Your Academic Program Team

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NEWS

New Business Intelligence Self-Paced e-Learning from SAS
There's a new skills gap growing: the Business Intelligence (BI) skills gap. Organizations are drowning in data, and thus investing heavily in BI in order to harness their data to make better, more informed decisions. Yet, they often lack the skilled employees they need to analyze and interpret their data in the right way. So much so that according to a recent report by 2006, demand for BI skills and staff is likely to outweigh supply by 2-1.
SAS is addressing this demand through its Academic Program across the globe, and SAS' Self-paced e-learning business intelligence flash demo overview and lessons have been created to enable even beginners to learn more about BI.
What is SAS BI, what are the components, how do they fit together into the SAS Business Intelligence Solution - and where do you fit in? This BI Overview contains a series of in-depth demos that include voice, visual images and screenshots to address what you need to know now. You select which pieces you are interested in, whether it be the big picture, the underlying architecture, or specific client tools (such as SAS Web Report Studio and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office). Then you'll be ready to tackle the BI lessons most suitable for your interests and needs.
The BI lessons use a SAS environment for practicing skills, so SAS software does not have to be installed. Users can perform the tasks in the SAS BI products without the hassle of setting up the data, information maps, stored processes, and so on. What's more we are offering a 50% discount to our academic customers, so you too can easily and affordably hone your BI skills!
The following BI lessons are available today:
- Viewing Reports Using SAS Web Report Studio
- Creating Basic Reports Using SAS Web Report Studio
- Developing Stored Processes Using SAS Enterprise Guide
- Viewing Results and Running Stored Processes Using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
- Viewing OLAP Cubes Using the SAS Web OLAP Viewer for NET
- Querying Data and Running SAS Tasks Using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

With SAS Certification the SAS Academic Program continues to increase students' marketability
Now busy students and academics can obtain SAS knowledge and increase their marketability in today's competitive job market with the help of SAS Certification. In conjunction with SAS, academic institutions worldwide will be able to leverage the expertise SAS has developed from successfully training thousands of individuals over the past 29 years and incorporate that experience into their curricula.
Raritan Valley Community College, a SAS Continuing Education Provider (CEP), for example, will offer two SAS programming courses within their Continuing Education department, designed to reach out to the professional community this Autumn. The evening courses, taught by a seasoned SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, will equip students with the power of SAS and prepare them for SAS certification exams. Another example of the success of SAS Certification in curricula comes from down under. The University of New South Wales (UNSW), School of Mathematics in Australia recently introduced a new second year undergraduate course using SAS entitled Data Management for Statistical Analysis. Within weeks of the School announcing the course to the students, over 100 enrolment applications were received. According to the School's Associate Professor James Franklin, this high response is a stark indication of the increasing need within the workplace for SAS skills. Adding even further to the course's value is a $1,000 prize being offered by SAS to the top student and the opportunity for all passing students to become SAS Certified Base Programmers.
There are also a great number of universities that align their curricula with SAS certification content providing students with all they need to know to sit the SAS Certification exams in their free time. And more and more students are choosing to do just that since the demand for individuals with SAS expertise continues to grow. Many students discover this for themselves when browsing one or more of the popular job search engines.
Professors can helps set their students apart from the competition by building their SAS expertise and putting their SAS skills to the test with the SAS Certified Professional Program. Students who know SAS, but are not SAS-certified, can also do just the same. With ninety-six of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500® List using SAS software, the career paths are endless!
To learn more about offering SAS Certification contact certification@sas.com

EVENTS

BetterManagement LIVE Business Conference
October 26-27, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada
SAS presents the 4th annual BetterManagement LIVE Worldwide, a leading business conference exploring innovative management perspectives. Select from 46 sessions that address industry-specific issues as well as single topics across multiple industries.
As the premier sponsor of BetterManagement LIVE Worldwide Business Conference, SAS will be inviting a limited number of executives to the conference as our guests. Contact your local office for further details.
Want to learn more about leadership and activity-based management? BetterManagement University, October 23-25, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, brings together hands-on training with real world applications. BetterManagement University offers pre-conference classes to compliment the topics and solutions at BetterManagement LIVE.

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