SAS Belgium & Luxembourg
February 2006

In this issue

SAS Events
SAS Belux Academic Day

SAS News
Gartner Quadrant for Data Mining
Gartner Quadrant for BI Platforms

SAS Topics
Free Tutorial: SAS Enterprise Miner

Hello All,

Besides the usual SAS information, this issue of our newsletter is dedicated to this years SAS Belux Academic Day, which will take place on April 27th in Brussels. It is the ideal place to meet your fellow researchers and professors and share SAS experiences with them and with SAS people. Also for students it is a nice opportunity to learn how SAS can be used in research and teaching. We hope to welcome you there!

Katrien

SAS EVENTS

SAS Belux Academic Day, Brussels, Thursday 27 April 2006 – Call for Papers

After a Break of two years, we are organising our fourth SAS Belux Academic Day on Thursday, April 27th 2006! Grab this unique occasion to present your teaching and research experiences with SAS to your colleagues of the Belgian and Luxembourg academic community. Send us a 20 line abstract of your presentation before March 24th and join us for this enriching day.

SAS NEWS

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Mining, 1Q06.

SAS is positioned in the "Leader" quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Mining. More...

Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q06.

SAS is positioned in the "Leader" quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q06. More...

SAS TOPICS

SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 Free Tutorial

SAS Self-Paced e-Learning now offers a two and 1/2 hour tutorial that delivers training on the latest release of SAS Enterprise Miner.
In this step-by-step tutorial you learn to do basic tasks in SAS Enterprise Miner: You create a project and build a process flow diagram. In your diagram you perform tasks such as accessing data, preparing the data, building multiple predictive models, comparing the models, selecting the best model, and applying the chosen model to new data.
To get the most out of this tutorial, you should have SAS Enterprise Miner software displayed on your monitor along with a browser that displays the tutorial. More ...