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 What is SAS?
 Introduction to SAS Institute, Inc.
 Which industries use SAS?
 Future with SAS?
 Opportunities with SAS?
 How to learn and excel SAS?
 Browse thru the SAS User Interface…
 First SAS Program…

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 SAS is a BI software product from the SAS
Institute, Cary, NC
 People refer SAS to as “Statistical Analytical
System”….
 It’s a Business Intelligence tool which can
give simple answers to businesses through
data mining capabilities, report generation
and automation etc…..

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 Know how SAS is used in Industries?

◦ Pharmaceutical – Statistical Analysis, Reporting

◦ Telecom – Reporting, ETL, Data Mining, Forecasting
◦ Financials - Reporting, ETL, Data Mining, Forecasting, Fin research, Predictive
modeling, DBMarketing, Activity Based Management.
◦ Healthcare - Reporting, ETL, Data Mining, Forecasting

 What technologies you need to know (SAS or others) to perform well in the
Industry?

◦ Databases – Teradata, Oracle, SQL server, DB2

◦ ETL – SAS/WA, SAS ETL (Data Integration Studio)
◦ Application Development – SAS IOM Bridge, Appdev Studio, SAS/AF
◦ Web Interface – SAS IntrNet, WebAF Studio
◦ Reporting – SAS/EG
◦ Statistics – SAS EMiner, SAS/STAT
◦ Package – Enterprise BI Server

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 Source: Business Week…

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 All Pharmaceutical
Companies involved in
Clinical trials.
 American Express
 FDA
 Citigroup
 GlaxoSmithKline  Bank of America
 Merck  Discover Financials
 Sanofi-Aventis  ETS
 Pfizer  JPMorgan Chase
 Quintiles CRO  Wells Fargo
 Aetna
 AstraZeneca
 Freddie Mac
 Fannie Mae
 Marriot etc…

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 A whole span of career
opportunities exists with
the help of SAS.

◦ Business Analyst
◦ Risk Analyst
◦ Clinical Statisticians
◦ Data warehouse
specialists
◦ PM’s etc…

 An excellent opportunity
to get into the functional
stream rather than
Technical stream.

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 If you have NOT done any Statistical Analysis in school then
you might have NOT got a chance to learn about SAS…

 SAS is easy-to-learn 4th Generation Data-centric

Programming language and one of the well-paid
technologies currently.

 “Little SAS” book or the SAS Online tutor are good places to
start with …

 Require licensed version of SAS 8 or 9 software to work

with..

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 Next we’ll have a quick demonstration of the SAS v9.1.3
Interface…

Some of the features displayed here are –

◦ First a small SAS program

◦ All the SAS window panes
◦ A small SAS program with its output SAS Dataset, Log,
Explorer windows are shown….
◦ SAS Export File Interface (EFI) – options for Exporting SAS
datasets to Excel, Access etc
◦ All Menu items
◦ SAS Online tutor and its location and chapters

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 DATA steps typically create or modify SAS data sets, but they can also be used
to produce custom-designed reports. For example, you can use DATA steps to

◦ put your data into a SAS data set

◦ compute the values for new variables
◦ check for and correct errors in your data
◦ produce new SAS data sets by sub-setting, merging, and updating existing data sets.

 PROC (procedure) steps typically analyze and process data in the form of a SAS
data set, and they sometimes create SAS data sets that contain the results of the
procedure. PROC steps control a library of prewritten routines (procedures) that
perform tasks on SAS data sets, such as listing, sorting, and summarizing data.
For example, you can use PROC steps to
◦ print a report
◦ produce descriptive statistics
◦ create a tabular report
◦ produce plots and charts.

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Data numbers; Start of a Datastep
X1=1; Assigning values to x1
x2=2; x2
Run; End the datastep

Proc print Issue a Print Procedure

data=numbers; to print the dataset
numbers
Run;
End the Run statement

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