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SAS GLOBAL ACADEMIC PROGRAM UNIVERSITY NEWSLETTER - THIRD ISSUE 2005
SAS ANALYTICS - TRANSFORMING EDUCATION At SAS, we've spent more than a quarter of a century building and refining comprehensive business intelligence and analytics software. SAS delivers the industry's widest portfolio of analytics - ranging from simple data exploration to advanced modeling capabilities that are in use at more than 2,000 academic institutions across the globe. Discover how you can go from predictive modeling and descriptive analytics, to data and text mining, all the way on to forecasting and operations research powered by SAS.Read More
SAS® IN CURRICULA The University Of Alabama and SAS educate the next generation of data mining experts - four data mining courses offered via combined effortsWith two looming trends - the retirement of the baby boom generation and a growing skills gap - conspiring to make top-notch employees scarce, companies are increasing their reliance on institutions of higher learning to graduate a well-educated work force. That's why academic degree programs like the one co-sponsored by the University of Alabama and data mining leader SAS are generating so much interest. Read More The Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and Technologies - SAS® Academic Program brings interdisciplinary connection between marketing and IT to life The Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and Technologies, which specializes in IT, economics and business management while focusing on innovative and international training, is now partnering with SAS. SAS Enterprise Guide as well as SAS Enterprise Miner expose the students to advanced analytics. Approximately 100 students per semester learn about SAS solutions in the areas of Marketing & IT, Data Mining and Marketing Performance Management. Read More University Of New South Wales introduces data management for statistics course The University of New South Wales (UNSW), School of Mathematics has introduced a new second year undergraduate course that focuses on managing large volumes of data using SAS, 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. Read More
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP The Business School Rankings DilemmaBy John J. Fernandes (BIO), President and Chief Executive Officer of AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. For more than 20 years, media rankings of business schools have grown both in popularity and public perception. BusinessWeek, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and other organizations publish extensive articles or devote entire issues to the rankings. "The Business School Rankings Dilemma," an AACSB International report released this month, offers a compelling look into the popular practice of ranking business schools. Read More
NEWS SAS marks its first 25 years in Europe Swinburne University's Ian Watkins tells us why he's been using SAS for 25 years Business Intelligence Research Center (BIRC) of PKU and SAS, global leader in business intelligence, recently announced the opening of PKU-SAS Center of Excellence in Data Mining. Read More (To read in Chinese, please click here )
EVENTS BetterManagement LIVE Business Conference A three-part webcast event designed to inform you, inspire you and even entertain you on the most critical topics affecting IT today. In Episode 1: The State of IT, academics Thornton May, responsible for sculpting executive education IT curricula at four major US business schools: UCLA, UC-Berkley, Arizona State and Ohio State, and John Chalykoff, the associate dean and director of the master of science in management information systems program at Boston University's School of Management, discuss the performance of universities in graduating IT students relevant to business. View the webcast
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