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5th Annual SAS® Health and Life Sciences Executive Conference »
 This year’s conference – scheduled for April 16-17 at SAS World Headquarters in Cary, NC – features a who’s who lineup of speakers, including: Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, Commissioner of the US FDA and John Halamka, MD, MS, CIO of Harvard Medical School. An Executive Leadership Panel will discuss best practices and new technologies at this can't-miss event. Register to attend.

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Competing on Analytics: Turning potential into performance »
The 2008 Competing on Analytics Series offers a four-phase approach that shows individuals at all levels how their contributions can help create a more mature approach to business intelligence, analytics and data integration. Read more. Learn more about SAS Analytics.
Health IT initiatives top HIMMS agenda »
HIMSS conference highlighted the movement in health and life sciences toward gaining a better understanding of data to improve patient well-being and efficiency as well as to identify new opportunities to advance healthcare.
SAS in Leaders quadrant for business intelligence platforms »
SAS, the leader in business intelligence, has been placed in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008, by Gartner Inc.
SAS’ Helton named to HITSP board »
Edward Helton, PhD, SAS’ Chief Scientist for Regulatory and Biomedical Affairs in the Health and Life Sciences Global Practice, has been elected to serve as an open representative on the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel.
  Events


The 17th Annual Partnerships with CROs and Other Outsourcing Partners »
April 14-16
Las Vegas


Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS) »
April 28-30
London

Blue Health Intelligence Conference »
April 30-May 2
Scottsdale, AZ


HP Health & Life Sciences Symposium »
May 12-15
Orlando

AHIP Institute 2008 »
June 18-20
San Francisco

44th Drug Information Association Annual
Meeting »
June 22-26
Boston
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AstraZeneca: Easy access to production information with SAS® »
Time savings and improved efficiency lowers production costs.

Healthways heads off increased costs with SAS® »
The US leader in health and care support for well and chronically ill populations relies on SAS to identify high-risk patients and implement preventative actions.

  Training

SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform customer training »
Learn how to manage your SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform with new customer training for business analysts and data integration developers. SAS offers multiple training styles; choose what works best for you.

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SAS® for Dummies »
Learn commonly used features of SAS®9 software and practical applications like working with the data, reporting, macros and more! (Listen to a podcast with author Chris Hemedinger.)

Predictive Modeling with SAS® Enterprise Miner™: Practical Solutions for Business Applications »
Step by step, you'll be able to compare manual calculations with the calculations that are performed by SAS Enterprise Miner. Topics addressed include data collection and data cleaning, decision trees and regression trees, logistic regression models, neural networks, variable selection and variable transformation, and more. Bonus CD-ROM includes data sets, SAS Enterprise Miner project templates, and SAS code. View table of contents.
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