PREPARING FOR A CAREER USING SAS^®

Ever wonder how Amazon.com knows your name and which books or CDs you might enjoy? Or how the bank knows to call you when there's been unusual activity on your credit card? The chances are that SAS software is delivering this intelligence. These organisations rely on your SAS skills to turn data trends into meaningful (and profitable!) information.

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Your analytical skills are in ever-increasing demand in the international marketplace. By 2006 the demand/supply ratio will be 2:1 and growing, due to organisations accumulating larger and larger amounts of data. This means that more highly skilled people are needed to determine how best to analyse the data. SAS is the world leader in providing Business Intelligence software and services, so it's not surprising that job web sites worldwide now increasingly specify SAS skills as a pre-requisite.

Tutorials are shipped as part of SAS products. The purpose of the tutorials is to get new users of the product up and running as quickly as possible. The tutorials provide conceptual overviews of the product and step-by-step instructions on how to perform common tasks using the product interface. When using these tutorials, you should display the tutorial window along side the product window so that you can work through the steps in your actual SAS environment.

• Getting Started with SAS
• Getting Started with SAS^® Enterprise Guide^®
• Getting Started with SAS^® Enterprise Miner^TM
• Getting Started with SAS/EIS^®
• Getting Started with SAS/GIS^®
• Getting Started with SAS/Warehouse Administrator^® (Version 8)

This just-in-time training is fully interactive and designed to be used in conjunction with SAS software as well as with SAS Learning Edition. Access training directly from your desktop, whenever and wherever it's convenient, at extremely affordable prices. The prices displayed on the web site are corporate - (minus 50% will give you the academic price in USD).

SAS has a wide library of publications that will help you:

• SAS software documentation: SAS software licences include SAS OnLineDoc CD resources that provide help at the syntax level.
  The documentation is available online after registering by clicking here.
• SAS Books By Users Program: SAS users contribute to this highly respected library of books.
  Click here for further details
• User Group Conference Proceedings: Be sure to expand your knowledge of the ways that SAS is used by seeing the proceedings of our SUGI Conference and also those of SEUGI (available from SAS Publications).
  Click here to learn more about users groups.

What's new in SAS^®9 ?
http://support.sas.com/software/91x/toc.htm

• Success Stories: Information about some of the most successful uses made of our software. (http://www.sas.com/success/index.html).
  It is interesting to note that we can't publish many of the most successful stories because of commercial confidentiality: customers gain such unique value from using SAS that they don't want their competition to find out!
• Details of SAS products at http://www.sas.com/software/
• White Papers at http://www.sas.com/apps/whitepapers/whitepaper.jsp. These provide a detailed look into how SAS solutions, products and technologies solve business problems
• The Customer Support pages provide a mass of useful information http://support.sas.com

Subscribing to free e-newsletters is a convenient way of receiving information. There are several that may be helpful:

"In the Know" is a bi-monthly email communication for our user community. Its aim is to improve the news and information flow about SAS software solutions, technologies and technical support.

SAS schedules a regular program of highly regarded courses. See details on http://www.sas.com/offices/asiapacific/malaysia/training1/training.html. For details of special arrangements for academic customers, please contact SAS Training at your local SAS office.

SAS Certification is a global qualification that is increasingly desired by employers as it ensures that new and existing employees meet a minimum standard of SAS knowledge.

Learn about the SAS Certification Program
http://support.sas.com/certify/index.html