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SAS is a business intelligence software used across multiple industries like pharmaceutical, telecom, and financial. It allows users to perform data mining, reporting, predictive modeling, and more. Some key technologies that work well with SAS include databases, ETL tools, application development platforms, and reporting software. There are many career opportunities for roles like business analyst, risk analyst, and data warehouse specialist that require SAS skills. The document provides information on getting started with SAS and includes screenshots of the SAS interface.

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SAS is a business intelligence software used across multiple industries like pharmaceutical, telecom, and financial. It allows users to perform data mining, reporting, predictive modeling, and more. Some key technologies that work well with SAS include databases, ETL tools, application development platforms, and reporting software. There are many career opportunities for roles like business analyst, risk analyst, and data warehouse specialist that require SAS skills. The document provides information on getting started with SAS and includes screenshots of the SAS interface.

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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  American Express
in Clinical trials.  Citigroup
 FDA  Bank of America
 GlaxoSmithKline  Discover Financials
 Merck  ETS
 Sanofi-Aventis  JPMorgan Chase
 Pfizer  Wells Fargo
 Quintiles CRO  Freddie Mac
 Aetna  Fannie Mae
 AstraZeneca  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
Run; numbers
End the Run statement

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