SAS Academic Program

Background

Benefits of Academic Program:

Under the Academic Program, SAS is committed to your university in the following areas:

a) Curriculum Development and Course Consulting

Let SAS help you develop a curriculum that speaks to the way business is conducted today. Through our curriculum development program, SAS helps business school and university faculty members develop and integrate courses that are relevant to the times in which they are taught.

Our education and professional services team will ensure your curricula / your research is launched successfully. Should there be need, both academics and students will be able to take SAS education courses at SAS Malaysia premises under Academic pricing.

SAS Academic Team is able to provide course consulting on incorporating SAS into an Academic Program. Whether the goal is to create a one-credit course or a sequence of courses, SAS is able to work with your school. The consulting also includes sharing existing course notes, ppt and pdf (Academic Trainer Kits), which are used at SAS.

b) Research

Through this program, faculty and/or campus research centers can partner with SAS on one or more emerging topics to solve a question or find a solution. One of the example of emerging topics today includes "Applying Data Mining Techniques" in various industries to find a solution or answer.

"Data Mining is the process of exploration and analysis, by automatic or semi-automatic means, of large quantities of data in order to discover meaningful patterns and rules" and SAS was ranked as number one Data Mining category with over 36% of the market by IDC report and forecast ( 2002 - 2007 ).

c) Joint Event and Closer Collaboration:

SAS will support you in your seminar or event by contributing SAS prominent speakers, knowledge sharing on SAS projects and promotion of the event to our corporate customers.

We can also work on publications together and SAS marketing team to support the coordination.

We can also linkage you to our bettermanagement.com members. Bettermanagement.com is a web portal where thought leaders can exchange information through web seminars, papers, e-learning

d) Global Connection and Knowledge Sharing Perspective

We have a global connection - students studying in Sweden are taking training in SAS Australia. Professors from Australia are traveling to our European HQ in Germany. Where-ever you may go - we are able to support you and your students as SAS is a multinational company.

This global connection also enables knowledge sharing of initiatives world wide. There is a vast amount of knowledge to be shared on innovative approaches on joint collaboration. We hope we can work with you to create a good reference.

e) Publicity

The local SAS Malaysia office will work with you on any opportunities to publicize the innovative teaching and research at University and create linkage to the business world. Such initiatives will include working on external case studies with you, approaching the press and creating speaker / presentation opportunities at events and seminars.

f) Internship Program

We have a structure in place for internships towards our commercial customers. Should you be interested, we can work with you to facilitate internship arrangement to place your students either at SAS, SAS Malaysia Customers, SAS worldwide or SAS worldwide customers. Your students will enjoy free SAS license usage during their internship program for job related to SAS.

g) Final Thesis Program

This program can be applied when a student is working as an intern (for his final thesis) at a commercial company who does not have SAS. Your local Academic Coordinator will work with you to prepare the environment for the student to access SAS software during his intern project and writing a thesis.

The following documents (provided by the student to local SAS Academic Coordinator) will be used by SAS to assess the eligibility of the program.

1. Cover letter
2. CV
3. Recommendation letter from Professor
4. If final thesis take place at a company, recommendation letter from company
5. Abstract of thesis
6. Project plan

h) Home copies - Learning Edition for Students

Today if your student wants to self study on SAS and use SAS to practice their assignment or homework,they can use SAS Learning Edition.

The package consists of the following

• An on-line, interactive tutorial
• The book: "Getting Started with the SAS Learning Edition
• A CD that contains Enterprise Guide, Base SAS, and all the procedures surfaced by EG in SAS/STAT, SAS/QC, SAS/ETS, and SAS/GRAPH

Enterprise Guide, with its customizable user interface and automation capabilities, is the key to this learning environment. It provides an easy-to-use, task-based graphical user interface to SAS with the familiar look and feel of Windows. Interactive dialogs guide users through SAS analytical and reporting tasks, access to both SAS and other types of data, and the ability to export those results to other Windows applications

In conclusion,

SAS is the only vendor able to meet the need for enterprise business intelligence, ensuring:

• ROI on BI software spend
• Reduced investment risk
• Quality of intelligence driving decisions

SAS is the only vendor that

• has a proven understanding of the process of generating business intelligence
• can provide the combination of:
• methodologies and models for transferring that knowledge to our customers
• software that supports each step of the process

Hence, by partnering with SAS, your university will enjoy enormous benefits by leverage on SAS branding in their job prospects. Students equipped by SAS would gain strong competitive advantage and may enjoy job opportunities at current SAS customers . Success stories