| What if you could enhance your learning at SAS Forum 2010? You can.
Be sure to reserve a seat at the SAS Pre-Conference courses.
Suitable for everyone, from first time users to highly seasoned professionals, the pre-conference program is carefully designed to help all attendees accelerate their SAS abilities.
Our Business Knowledge Series offers attendees valuable face-time with experienced SAS customers and subject matter experts. Pose questions, share thoughts and gain insight into how SAS is applied to solve complex, organisational challenges.
Then take your place at the popular SAS Education sessions. These are the hottest technical training seats in town, offering 'hands-on learning' workshops with some of the best developers, programmers and SAS experts in the business.
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Business Knowledge Series - Leverage the knowledge and experience of our global network of professionals and published authors
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SAS Education - build your SAS skills and explore and apply the full power of SAS software.
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Business Knowledge Courses:
| | Data Mining Techniques: Theory & Practice |
| Course Date(s) |
9-11 August, 2010. Duration 3 days |
| Time |
9am – 5pm |
| Location |
Cliftons, Sydney |
| Trainer's Name |
Michael J. A. Berry |
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Bio
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Michael Berry, together with his colleague, Gordon Linoff, has authored some of the most widely read and respected books on data mining.
Best sellers in their field, Michael’s books have been translated into numerous languages and reflect many years of successful, practical and hands-on experience down in the data mines.
An active practitioner, Michael is a sought after educator, consultant, keynote speaker and seminar leader on the subject of data mining and its application to customer relationship management.
Prior to founding Data Miners in December, 1997, Michael spent 8 years at Thinking Machines Corporation. His specialisation was the application of massively parallel supercomputing techniques to business and marketing applications, including one of the largest database marketing systems of the time.
Michael believes that to understand data, one has to be close to the business that generates it and the people that make use of it. Consequently he travels frequently to visit client locations around the world, possesses both US and UK passports, may legally reside and work in the EU and can read and speak French and Spanish. |
| Course Information |
This course introduces a data mining methodology that is a superset to the SAS SEMMA methodology around which SAS® Enterprise Miner is organised. The course also introduces a wide range of data mining algorithms, theoretical knowledge and practical skills. In this class, you will work through all the steps of a data mining project, beginning with problem definition and data selection, and continue through data exploration, data transformation, sampling, portioning, modelling, and assessment.
Learn how to:
• Use a data mining methodology
• Build and use decision trees and neural networks for modelling and scoring
• Use survival analysis and create survival curves
Who should attend?
Business analysts, their managers, and statisticians.
View full course outline
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| Prerequisites |
No prior knowledge of statistical or data mining tools is required. |
| Cost |
AUD3,850 inc GST per person |
| ETA Credit |
350 per person |
| | SAS Functions by Example |
| Course Date(s) |
August 10-11, 2010. Duration 2 days |
| Time |
9am – 5pm |
| Location |
Cliftons, Sydney |
| Trainer's Name |
Ron Cody |
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Bio
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Ron Cody, Ed.D., is a retired professor from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School who now works as a private consultant and a national instructor for SAS Institute Inc. A SAS user since 1977, Ron's extensive knowledge and innovative style have made him a popular presenter at local, regional, and national SAS conferences. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, such as Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide; SAS Programming by Example; Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, Fifth Edition; The SAS Workbook; The SAS Workbook Solutions; Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software; Longitudinal Data and SAS: A Programmer's Guide; and SAS Functions by Example, as well as countless articles in medical and scientific journals.
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| Course Information |
This course covers many useful functions that can solve everyday problems quickly and efficiently and that are not discussed in other programming courses. It is ideal for anyone who programs in Base SAS, especially DATA step programming.
Learn how to:
• Use functions to process and compare character variables and strings
• Use array functions
• Use variable information functions
Who should attend?
• SAS programmers
View full course outline
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| Prerequisites |
Before attending this course, you should:
• Have completed the SAS Programming 1: Essentials course
• Having completed the SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques course is also recommended or, alternatively, a minimum of one year of SAS programming experience.
Some familiarity with arrays, DO loops, the FIRSTOBS and LASTOBS options would be useful but is not essential.
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| Cost |
AUD2,750 inc GST per person |
| ETA Credit |
250 per person |
| | SAS Enterprise Guide for Experienced SAS Users: An Insider's Perspective |
| Course Date(s) |
August 10-11, 2010. Duration 2 days |
| Time |
9am – 5pm |
| Location |
Cliftons, Sydney |
| Trainer's Name |
Chris Hemedinger |
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Bio
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Chris Hemedinger has carved an impressive career out of making SAS more accessible and easier to understand. Starting his career at SAS in 1993 as a technical writer, Chris created the hit 'SAS Companion' series for OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. He went on to additional projects aimed at making SAS even easier to use for non-programmers, giving rise to the hugely popular SAS® Enterprise Guide, a product he has worked with ever since.
Now a senior software manager in SAS R&D, Chris is part of the team that builds SAS® Enterprise Guide and SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office. He's also co-author of the popular SAS for Dummies book and moderator of the SAS Enterprise Guide discussion forum.
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| Course Information |
Do you use SAS Enterprise Guide in your organization? Chances are good that you do, or that you will be soon. As a desktop client interface to SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide is viewed as an IT-friendly way to provide SAS capabilities to a wide variety of users. As a SAS professional, it's time for you to learn how you can best use SAS Enterprise Guide in your environment. Join Chris Hemedinger (Senior Manager for the SAS Enterprise Guide product) on this in-depth tour of SAS Enterprise Guide. This course provides you, an experienced SAS user, with an inside look at how you can use SAS Enterprise Guide to get more work done within SAS, faster. Learn how to run your programs, develop new programs, manage your work in projects, share results with others, and much more. Chris will share some of his favorite tricks for becoming a more productive SAS user by combining the best features of SAS with the development environment of SAS Enterprise Guide.
Learn how to:
• Understand the architecture of SAS Enterprise Guide and client-server computing
• Write, edit, and submit SAS programs in SAS Enterprise Guide
• Customize the environment to best suit the way you work: for programming, for data preparation, and for report building
• Let built-in tasks do the heavy lifting when designing queries and reports
• Save your favorite task settings with task templates
• Use best practices for data access and administration
• Write scripts and schedule your process flows in SAS Enterprise Guide
• Use SAS metadata capabilities to create dynamic reports with stored processes
• Use custom tasks to extend the capabilities of SAS Enterprise Guide
View full course outline
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| Prerequisites |
None |
| Cost |
AUD2,750 inc GST per person |
| ETA Credit |
250 per person |
| | SAS Architecture & Deployment Workshop |
| Course Date(s) |
August 10-11, 2010. Duration 2 days |
| Time |
9am – 5pm |
| Location |
Cliftons, Sydney |
| Trainer's Name |
James Foster |
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Bio
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James Foster is the Chief Technology Strategist at SAS Australia. James has had broad experience within the IT industry, in areas such as Software Testing, Development and Project Implementation. James is currently responsible for thought leadership in creating and implementing technology road maps for SAS customers in both the sales and delivery cycles.
Architecture advisory and best practices form a key part of James’ role, with direct involvement in all major customer accounts across many industries. This knowledge not only includes SAS technology but extends to integration with corporate systems and infrastructure. James draws upon his practical experience in implementing a large number of large scale enterprise solutions.
James is also part of the SAS Global Technology Strategy team, which enables him to communicate local customer requirements to the SAS R+D community. It also means he is able to share upcoming software development plans and trends with local customers. This communication also includes emerging technology trends such as SOA and Web 2.0.
Prior to working at SAS, James held a number of roles within the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence areas, both in Management and hands-on delivery. James has worked in a number of industry areas such as Financial Services, Telecommunications and Government.
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| Course Information |
This course is designed to provide System Administrators, Enterprise Architects, IT Architects, IT Managers and Project Managers an understanding of the SAS® 9 architecture and key concepts in managing a SAS® 9 deployment.
Enterprise deployments demand reliable and robust systems to ensure business operations run smoothly. As enterprises and business requirements grow, your SAS implementation and applications need to advance to service the increasing demands of the enterprise and business users. This course aims to present the revolutionary benefits of the SAS® 9 architecture whilst providing you with tips and pointers on how the SAS platform for Business Analytics fits into the modern enterprise.
The format of this course is a combination of instructor-led presentations on relevant topic areas as well as interactive “chalk-talk” style discussions and exercises in a workshop-style forum. Focusing on the SAS® 9 system architecture, configuration and better practices for the deployment, this workshop will give you an opportunity to openly discuss any questions or issues you are currently facing, as well as hear about other deployments and experiences from other SAS customers.
This course is appropriate for sites that are planning to implement a platform for SAS® Business Analytics as well as sites that already have the platform for SAS® Business Analytics installed.
Whilst suited for people that will be involved in designing and administering the SAS server and application environment, the course is also suited to IT managers and project managers in understanding the key architecture topics in scoping a SAS implementation project from a technical and systems perspective.
Topics covered in this session include:
• Understand the SAS® 9 product architecture and servers
• Understand the SAS® 9 security architecture
• Learn about SAS® 9 environment management
• Learn about SAS® 9 scalability and capacity planning
• Understand infrastructure and hardware considerations
• Understand integration and interoperability capabilities
• Learn about backup and disaster recovery considerations
• Learn about configuring a highly available system
• Learn from examples of customer implementations |
| Prerequisites |
This course is ideal for SAS Administrators, IT Managers, Architects, Project Managers and anyone currently implementing (or planning to implement) a SAS® 9 platform for Business Analytics. |
| Cost |
AUD2,750 inc GST per person |
| ETA Credit |
250 per person |
Education Courses:
| | Building and Solving Optimisation Models with SAS/OR |
| Course Date(s) |
August 9-11, 2010. Duration 3 days |
| Time |
9am – 5pm |
| Location |
SAS Sydney |
| Course Information |
This course focuses on formulating and solving mathematical optimisation using the OPTMODEL procedure, from inputting data to interpreting output and generating reports. The course covers linear, integer, mixed-integer, and nonlinear programming problems, with an emphasis on model formulation and construction.
Learn how to:
• Formulate and solve linear programming problems using the OPTMODEL procedure
• Solve integer and mixed-integer programming problems using the OPTMODEL procedure
• Solve nonlinear programming problems using the OPTMODEL procedure
Who should attend?
Anyone who wants to formulate and solve linear, integer, mixed-integer, or nonlinear problems using SAS/OR software |
| Prerequisites |
Before attending this course, you should:
• Have completed an undergraduate course in operations research that includes linear programming or have recent experience using linear programming or be comfortable with matrix algebra
• Be able to execute SAS programs and create SAS data sets. You can gain this experience by completing the SAS Programming 1: Essentials course
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| Cost |
AUD3,630 inc GST per person |
| ETA Credit |
330 per person |
| | SAS® Macro Language 2: Developing Macro Applications |
| Course Date(s) |
August 10-11, 2010. Duration 2 days |
| Time |
9am – 5pm |
| Location |
SAS Sydney |
| Course Information |
This course is designed for experienced SAS macro programmers who want to learn to develop and use macro applications. New techniques and best practices are taught within the context of the applications.
You will learn how to:
• Create a framework for developing macro applications
• Develop reusable macros
• Read and process data
• Pass and process macro parameters.
Who should attend?
Experienced SAS macro programmers who have a solid understanding of the macro facility |
| Prerequisites |
Before attending this course, you should:
• Have completed the SAS Macro Language 1: Essentials course or have equivalent knowledge and experience
• Have a solid understanding of DATA step programming, specifically, be able to:
• Write macro programs that contain iterative processing and conditional processing
• Create local and global macro variables
• Create macro variables using the SYMPUTX routine
• Utilise indirect macro variable references
• Utilise the SQL procedure SELECT statement INTO clause |
| Cost |
AUD2,420 inc GST per person |
| ETA Credit |
220 per person |
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