Free Webinars
SAS experts will hold live events presenting a variety of topics.
For the opportunity to ask a specific question, you can register to participate in the live sessions. You can also view previously recorded sessions on demand to get in-depth information about a particular topic.
Analytics
- Accessing and Manipulating Data in SAS Viya You may have heard of SAS Viya, a modernization of the SAS platform, but you might not be familiar with how to access and manage your data in SAS Viya.
- Analytics and Decisions in a Streaming EnvironmentJoin a SAS expert to get an overview of the latest SAS Event Stream Processing technology and how analytics is used to improve decisions for more real-time action.
- Causal Inferences: An IntroductionData analysts and statisticians can learn how causal inference helps explain whether results can be attributed to a given cause in varied situations.
- Creating and Scheduling SAS Job Flows with the User Manager Plugin in SAS Management ConsoleThis webinar will demonstrate how multiple SAS programs, SAS Data Integration Studio jobs, and/or SAS Web Report Studio reports can be combined into a flow definition.
- Data Mining Tasks with SAS Enterprise GuideIn this presentation, we will cover them all: SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler; model scoring; and recency, frequency and monetary analysis.
- Data Preparation Best Practice Approaches for Deriving Better Insights From AnalyticsExplore data preparation ideas to help drive better insights from analytics. This webinar is for data scientists, data engineers, data stewards and analysts.
- Ensemble Models and Partitioning Algorithms in SAS Enterprise MinerIn this session, various ensemble models will be presented based on partitioning algorithms in SAS Enterprise Miner, including decision trees, bagging, boosting and gradient boosting.
- Introduction to SAS Administration Tasks in 9.4This presentation introduces you to the basics of SAS platform administration in a SAS Metadata Server environment.
- Introduction to Survival Data MiningThis webinar will discuss topics such as building models for time-dependent outcomes derived from customer event histories, accounting for competing risks and incorporating time-dependent covariates.
- Leveraging SAS Viya to Improve Base SAS ProcessesExplore technical insights and implementation details to get your code CAS-enabled, achieving faster results.
- Model Selection Techniques Into SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise MinerThis presentation will answer the what, why and how on model selection. We will take a look at the criteria and techniques used for model selection.
- SAS Analytics for ContainersAnalytics for containers provides portability, collaboration and a high level of security – especially for SAS users in federal financial agencies.
- SAS Enterprise Miner: Getting StartedLearn how to create a project, define a data source, create a basic flow process, explore and modify data, perform basic modeling, score new data and more.
- SAS Enterprise Miner: Tips and Tricks From favorite nodes to implementing more complex modeling techniques, learn top tips for getting the most from using SAS Enterprise Miner in this presentation.
- SAS Environment Manager: An IntroductionNew in SAS 9.4, SAS Environment Manager enables you to know exactly what’s going on within your SAS environment.
- SAS Forecast Server: Getting StartedIn this session, we will introduce you to SAS Forecast Server.
- SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya: A Perfect PairJoin us for this webinar and learn how SAS Grid Manager works with SAS Viya to process large volumes of data for rapid results.
- SAS Grid Manager: An Overview of the SAS Grid Manager Module in SAS Environment ManagerThis one-hour webinar will provide you with an overview of how to administer your grid environment. We’ll take a look at monitoring and scheduling in SAS® using the SAS Grid Manager module in SAS Environment Manager
- SAS Modeling Best Practices This session provides general guidelines for accessing and determining the best modeling methodology or methodologies for a given business issue.
- SAS Text Miner: Getting StartedLearn how to create a project, access and read unstructured data, perform natural language processing, and explore concepts in your document collection.
- SAS Visual Analytics 7.4: Tips and TricksThis session will provide you with options, methods and best practices when using SAS Visual Analytics for data exploration and report design.
- SAS Visual Analytics 7.4: Using Geospatial ObjectsFrom seeing where sharks attack to animating a hurricane’s path, you can learn how to incorporate geospatial data into real-world applications.
- SAS Visual Analytics 7.4: Working with Data With SAS Visual Analytics, data-driven insights abound. And so do the ways to manipulate and explore your data.
- SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 on SAS Viya: Getting StartedIt’s also an underlying foundation for several SAS solutions, including SAS Visual Analytics. It offers data discovery and reporting through a single, easy-to-use interface
- SAS Visual Analytics: An Introduction to Custom Calculations and Aggregations Join this webinar to learn how SAS Visual Analytics enables you to calculate new data items from your existing data items using an expression builder
- SAS Visual Analytics: Getting StartedThis presentation and demonstration introduces you to the capabilities and interface of this powerful data visualization software.
- SAS Visual Analytics: Getting Started with SAS Visual Data BuilderSAS Visual Data Builder enables analysts and data administrators to perform data preparation for analytics. You can design queries to perform joins, add calculated columns and subset and sort data
- SAS Visual Analytics: What's New in 7.3This session gives you a quick, convenient overview of new functionality and enhanced features of the software’s latest release.
- SAS Visual Analytics: What's New in 7.4Join us for this Ask the Expert session for a quick, convenient overview of new functionality and enhanced features that you might use with the latest release of SAS Visual Analytics.
- SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning: Getting StartedThe presentation and accompanying demonstration will offer a view into SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.
- SAS Visual Forecasting on SAS Viya: Getting StartedJoin us for this webinar and learn how SAS Visual Forecasting on SAS Viya supports high-performance automated forecasting and how to start using it.
- SAS Visual Statistics on Viya: Getting Started Quickly create predictive models through the visual point-and-click interface or through programming using SAS Studio or other programming interfaces.
- SAS Visual Statistics: Getting StartedLearn about SAS Visual Statistics and its capabilities (including its seamless integration with SAS Visual Analytics)
- Scheduling SAS Programs and Jobs for a Grid EnvironmentLearn about scheduling SAS programs and jobs from SAS applications with a focus on grid users.
- The New Languages of SAS 9.4 and SAS Viya: A SAS Programmer's Primer This session will describe new language interfaces to SAS and how these compare to traditional SAS 9.4 counterparts
- Understanding Hot FixesThis session introduces the concept of SAS® hot fixes, why they are necessary, and how they are installed and configured.
- Understanding User AuthenticationThis session covers the process of authentication when logging on to a SAS® client application, as well as when accessing data through program code
- Understanding Your Software Order and How to Use the SAS Deployment Wizard to Manage Your Software DepotThis presentation will explain how to request an upgrade or maintenance release of current software
- Variable Selection Using SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Address techniques using both SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner, and show specific ways that you can incorporate it into your predictive modeling.
- What Does It Mean to Administer SAS Visual Analytics?In this webinar, you’ll learn how to cover the SAS Platform and SAS Visual Analytics administration at a foundational level.
- What is a CASLIB and How Do I Use ThemYou need to know what a CASLIB is and how it can help you get access to your data with SAS Cloud Analytic Services.
Business Intelligence
- A Deeper Dive into SAS Enterprise Guide ReportingThis session assumes that you already have some proficiency with SAS Enterprise Guide, but want to learn more about the tasks that conduct reporting.
- Filtering Every Which Way in SAS Enterprise GuideBy the end of this hour, you will know the secrets to exploiting key data management, integration and filtering capabilities of SAS Enterprise Guide.
- SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office: An IntroductionThis session is for power users/business analysts who are comfortable working in Microsoft applications, and want to harness the advanced analytical power of SAS
- SAS Enterprise Guide: Getting StartedLearn how to access SAS data, run tasks and change output format, manipulate data in the Query Builder window, and use the SAS Enterprise Guide programming
- SAS Enterprise Guide: Hidden GemsThis session looks at both new and existing functionality of SAS Enterprise Guide to help both novice users and longtime programmers.
- SAS Enterprise Guide: Scheduling ProjectsIn this webinar, you’ll get a step-by-step guide to scheduling your SAS Enterprise Guide project using Windows Task Scheduler.
- SAS Enterprise Guide: Tips, Tricks and Considerations for ProgrammersIn this webinar, SAS programmers can discover tips, tricks and little-known functionalities in SAS Enterprise Guide.
- Using Microsoft Excel PivotTables in the SAS Add-In for Microsoft OfficeIn this webinar, you’ll learn how the SAS add-in functionality enables SAS data to be explored using an MS Excel pivot table
Customer Intelligence
- Introduction to Custom Processing for SAS Marketing AutomationDiscover techniques and resources for developing SAS Stored Processes for a Process or Custom node. Whether you’re a SAS programmer or a campaign designer, learn to create and use custom processes using SAS Marketing Automation.
- Optimize Your Way to Awesome Marketing With SAS Customer Intelligence Learn the benefits of optimizing campaigns and how to use SAS Marketing Optimization and SAS Marketing Automation together to help you get better results.
Data Management
- A Venture into SAS Data ManagementBy the end of this live webinar, you’ll understand the key characteristics, value and features of SAS Data Management
- Techniques for User Code in SAS Data Integration StudioSAS Data Integration Studio provides a powerful visual design tool for building, implementing and managing data integration processes
- Virtualizing Enterprise DataThis session reviews how to use SAS Federation Server to virtualize and deliver enterprise data across an organization. You’ll learn about security features using advanced data masking and encryption, granular role-based permissions and embedded data quality.
Foundation Tools
- Exploring SAS Stored ProcessesSAS Stored Processes provide the capability to define a SAS program that is managed and distributed via a server, but which can be executed from a variety of client applications
- Gaining Comfort with SAS Grid Computing for Analysts and Data ScientistsWhat is SAS Grid Computing? How can it boost your analytics performance? This webinar introduces you to the key concepts and benefits of SAS Grid Computing.
- Moving Your Programs to the World of DS2 This session will introduce you to the SAS DS2 programming language and show how you can accomplish this.
- PROC REPORT: Getting StartedJoin this session to learn basic syntax, ordering and grouping values, how to create new columns, and simple highlighting techniques.
- PROC REPORT: Next StepsDiscover why you might need to use an alias when calculating multiple statistics for one analysis variable, or in using a variable for multiple purposes.
- Producing PPT, EXCEL and EPUB Books in SASLearn how to use the SAS Output Delivery System (ODS) to create PowerPoint, EXCEL and EPUB books from SAS results.
- SAS SQL: An IntroductionGet to know PROC Structured Query Language (SQL) from the ground up.
- SAS Studio: Advanced Topics and What's NewShowcasing the latest version of SAS Studio, this webinar will explore a variety of new tasks.
- SAS Studio: An IntroductionThis session introduces SAS Studio, a development application for SAS that you access through your web browser.
- SAS/ACCESS: Universal SAS Methods to Access Just About Any Data, AnywhereThis Ask the Expert session will illustrate two universal SAS syntax methods for reading and writing database tables
- Sorting Through All of the Features of PROC SORTThe PROC SORT of today tackles data challenges like never before. It goes past EBCDIC and ASCII to include additional languages beyond English.
- The What, When and Why of SAS/ACCESS InterfacesThis session introduces the key characteristics and capabilities of SAS/ACCESS interfaces
- Top 10 SAS FunctionsHave you ever wondered if there are functions that are popular among SAS users? If so, what are they? Join us as we focus on widely used SAS functions
- Top 10 Ways to Optimize Your SAS CodeLearn tips and tricks to make your SAS code run more efficiently.
- What's New in 9.4 for FoundationJoin us for a high-level discussion of selected changes and enhancements in SAS 9.4.
Hadoop
- Preparing Data in Hadoop for Analysis and ReportingHow business users, data analysts and scientists can manage, manipulate and cleanse data stored in Hadoop using an intuitive browser interface.
- Programming Techniques for SAS In-Memory Analytics With HadoopA brief overview of several SAS technologies and programming methods for Hadoop
SAS Administrator
- Creating and Scheduling SAS Job Flows with the User Manager Plugin in SAS Management ConsoleThis webinar will demonstrate how multiple SAS programs, SAS Data Integration Studio jobs, and/or SAS Web Report Studio reports can be combined into a flow definition.
- Introduction to SAS Administration Tasks in 9.4This presentation introduces you to the basics of SAS platform administration in a SAS Metadata Server environment.
- SAS Environment Manager: An IntroductionNew in SAS 9.4, SAS Environment Manager enables you to know exactly what’s going on within your SAS environment.
- SAS Grid Manager: An Overview of the SAS Grid Manager Module in SAS Environment ManagerThis one-hour webinar will provide you with an overview of how to administer your grid environment. We’ll take a look at monitoring and scheduling in SAS® using the SAS Grid Manager module in SAS Environment Manager
- Scheduling SAS Programs and Jobs for a Grid EnvironmentLearn about scheduling SAS programs and jobs from SAS applications with a focus on grid users.
- Understanding Hot FixesThis session introduces the concept of SAS® hot fixes, why they are necessary, and how they are installed and configured.
- Understanding User AuthenticationThis session covers the process of authentication when logging on to a SAS® client application, as well as when accessing data through program code
- Understanding Your Software Order and How to Use the SAS Deployment Wizard to Manage Your Software DepotThis presentation will explain how to request an upgrade or maintenance release of current software
- What Does It Mean to Administer SAS Visual Analytics?In this webinar, you’ll learn how to cover the SAS Platform and SAS Visual Analytics administration at a foundational level.
SAS Visual Analytics
- SAS Visual Analytics 7.4: Tips and TricksThis session will provide you with options, methods and best practices when using SAS Visual Analytics for data exploration and report design.
- SAS Visual Analytics 7.4: Using Geospatial ObjectsFrom seeing where sharks attack to animating a hurricane’s path, you can learn how to incorporate geospatial data into real-world applications.
- SAS Visual Analytics 7.4: Working with Data With SAS Visual Analytics, data-driven insights abound. And so do the ways to manipulate and explore your data.
- SAS Visual Analytics: An Introduction to Custom Calculations and Aggregations Join this webinar to learn how SAS Visual Analytics enables you to calculate new data items from your existing data items using an expression builder
- SAS Visual Analytics: Getting StartedThis presentation and demonstration introduces you to the capabilities and interface of this powerful data visualization software.
- SAS Visual Analytics: Getting Started with SAS Visual Data BuilderSAS Visual Data Builder enables analysts and data administrators to perform data preparation for analytics. You can design queries to perform joins, add calculated columns and subset and sort data
- SAS Visual Analytics: What's New in 7.3This session gives you a quick, convenient overview of new functionality and enhanced features of the software’s latest release.
- SAS Visual Analytics: What's New in 7.4Join us for this Ask the Expert session for a quick, convenient overview of new functionality and enhanced features that you might use with the latest release of SAS Visual Analytics.
- SAS Visual Statistics: Getting StartedLearn about SAS Visual Statistics and its capabilities (including its seamless integration with SAS Visual Analytics)
Viya
- Accessing and Manipulating Data in SAS Viya You may have heard of SAS Viya, a modernization of the SAS platform, but you might not be familiar with how to access and manage your data in SAS Viya.
- Leveraging SAS Viya to Improve Base SAS ProcessesExplore technical insights and implementation details to get your code CAS-enabled, achieving faster results.
- SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya: A Perfect PairJoin us for this webinar and learn how SAS Grid Manager works with SAS Viya to process large volumes of data for rapid results.
- SAS Optimization on SAS Viya: Getting StartedIn this presentation, you’ll get coding examples for linear programming, mixed integer linear programming, nonlinear programming and network optimization.
- SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 on SAS Viya: Getting StartedIt’s also an underlying foundation for several SAS solutions, including SAS Visual Analytics. It offers data discovery and reporting through a single, easy-to-use interface
- SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning: Getting StartedThe presentation and accompanying demonstration will offer a view into SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.
- SAS Visual Statistics on Viya: Getting Started Quickly create predictive models through the visual point-and-click interface or through programming using SAS Studio or other programming interfaces.
- SAS Viya Architecture and Data Movement: A SAS Programmer’s OverviewExperienced SAS programmers can learn more about SAS Viya architecture and SAS Viya programming.
- SAS Viya: Working With APIsExperienced and novice SAS users can join us to learn how and when to use APIs to run machine learning models in SAS Viya.
- The New Languages of SAS 9.4 and SAS Viya: A SAS Programmer's Primer This session will describe new language interfaces to SAS and how these compare to traditional SAS 9.4 counterparts
- What is a CASLIB and How Do I Use ThemYou need to know what a CASLIB is and how it can help you get access to your data with SAS Cloud Analytic Services.