Business Intelligence SAS Users Group :: BISUG newsletter [Year 2006 Issue 2]


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In this issue Hire8 Corporation is seeking SAS Business Intelligence Consultants A new Enterprise Guide blog powered by BISUG A new SAS Press book by Sunil Gupta (Data Management and Reporting Made Easy with SAS Learning Edition 2.0): Point-N-Click, Drag-N-Drop to Produce Great Reports, No SAS Programming Required!
Business Intelligence Consultants
David Mulvaney, Hire8 Corporation Join the clear leader in Business Intelligence and Balanced Scorecard! Looking for a challenge? Want to grow your career through an exciting opportunity? Hire8 Corporation is seeking SAS Business Intelligence Consultants. Our client is the Leader in the Delivery of award-winning Business Intelligence and Balanced Scorecard applications. Through a unique combination of SAS Institute software and their own tools, our client has successfully delivered advanced Dashboards, Balanced Scorecards, and meaningful graphics into the hands of client Executives. They are currently seeking contract-to-hire hands-on technical people that can design, develop, install and enhance applications built on the SAS 9 Business Intelligence platform. For more information, download the flyer and contact David Mulvaney at david.mulvaney@hire8.com or 972-739-9716.
A new Enterprise Guide blog
Alex Dmitrienko The first Enterprise Guide blog was created on February 2 to share Enterprise Guide technical information, tips, news, updates, review of Enterprise Guide publications and training courses. We hope that the blog will help us fill a gap between monthly newsletters (when new information appears on the BISUG web site only once a month) and make the BISUG web site more interactive. The blog will be maintained by a group by experienced Enterprise Guide users, including Susan Slaughter and Lora Delwiche, who have recently published their Enterprise Guide 3.0 book, The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 3.0, Ginger Carey and Helen Carey and myself. At this point, the blog will concentrate on Enterprise Guide 3.0 and, as we get closer to the release of Enterprise Guide 4.1, we will begin including more Enterprise Guide 4.1 posts. There are fewer than 10 posts right now but we are off to a good start.

A New SAS Press book: No SAS Programming Required!

Sunil Gupta, Gupta Programming
GuptaProgramming@cs.com

Sunil Gupta is the principal consultant and trainer at Gupta Programming. He has been using SAS software for over 12 years, is a SAS Base Certified Professional and was the program chair for the Western Users of SAS Software conference in 1998. He has also been an invited speaker at numerous SUGI conferences.

Sunil is the author of Quick Results with the Output Delivery System (SAS Press) and has recently published his second book, Sharpening Your SAS Skills (Chapman and Hall).

Today Sunil is going to tell us about his new SAS Press book, Data Management and Reporting Made Easy with SAS Learning Edition 2.0, which is planned to be published in March 2006. Although, the book's main subject is SAS Learning Edition 2.0, Enterprise Guide users will find it useful because SAS Learning Edition 2.0 features the Enterprise Guide interface and is based on the same engine. The book provides a good coverage of complicated data management and reporting issues faced by both SAS Learning Edition 2.0 and Enterprise Guide users.

Point-N-Click, Drag-N-Drop to Produce Great Reports, No SAS Programming Required!

Ready to take the easy road to SAS programming? Whether you are a programming wizard or a non-technical professional, you can take advantage of SAS Learning Edition to produce publication-quality reports that can be submitted to upper management. My latest book, Data Management and Reporting Made Easy with SAS Learning Edition 2.0, shows you how to reduce the time to deliver results through task-oriented menus, manage data and generate complex reports and charts using the full power of SAS and create SAS programs without writing any SAS code. Simple step-by-step instructions show how real-world business questions can be answered with the SAS Learning Edition. Better understanding of product sales and trends leads to better planning.

Not really interested in SAS Learning Edition? Business Intelligence users can still benefit from this book, because all examples in the book can be applied using SAS Enterprise Guide. By producing standard output from the task-oriented menus, more savvy users can then customize their results once they become more comfortable with SAS programming. Note that SAS Learning Edition and SAS Enterprise Guide are basically the same application with minor differences. The user interface and software functionally are the same except that SAS Learning Edition has a 1,000 record limit in a data set and will expire.