SAS ANZ announces skills certification program

SYDNEY & AUCKLAND,  (24 Nov 2009)  –  SAS Australia and New Zealand has announced the introduction of the SAS ANZ Certification program to formally recognise SAS skills primarily in key areas of business analytics.

SAS – which is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market – has been in Australia & New Zealand since shortly after the company’s founding in 1976.  SAS ANZ customers include leading financial institutions, utilities, telecommunication carriers, government departments, universities and retailers.

Certification is awarded to individual software professionals and does not extend to the organisations they represent or to their affiliates.  Individuals will typically be employees of SAS alliance partners, experienced contractors and SAS personnel.

If they so wish, SAS ANZ Certification conferees will be identified on the company’s external website – with the obvious benefit of their elite standing being noted in the public domain – and have their further related accomplishments added to the record.

Certification will be conferred in five SAS disciplines, namely –

• SAS Business Intelligence 
• SAS Data Integration
• SAS Platform Administration
• SAS Enterprise Miner 
• SAS Version 9.2 Migration  

Individuals are eligible to be certified in any or all five disciplines with the prerequisite that they demonstrate a thorough knowledge of SAS 9.2 – the company’s current core analytics platform.

Each certification examination will comprise both theoretical and practical components to establish applicants’ in-depth understanding of SAS technology and their ability to apply that understanding to diagnosis and solution design for problem solving.

SAS ANZ Certification examinations will be conducted under strict conditions on SAS ANZ premises and the first of these – for SAS 9.2 Migration – will be next month.

For more information on SAS ANZ Certification, please visit: http://www.sas.com/offices/asiapacific/sp/partners/accreditation.html 

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