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Spotlight on SAS Enterprise Guide

A new web seminar, part of the Inside SAS Web Seminar Series, will be given on Tuesday, June 6 at 1:00 pm (Eastern time). The web seminar will focus on Enterprise Guide. The following topics will be discussed:

* A guided mechanism to exploit the power of SAS and publish dynamic results throughout your organization.

* A process-flow diagram facility that lets users organize, view and maintain their projects visually, as well as conduct out-of-box reporting and wizard-based tasks.

* User access to any data types supported by SAS and native Windows data types. Users can perform many tasks by themselves without involving IT specialists.

* A dedicated, intuitive and advanced interface for analyzing business information stored in OLAP data cubes.

To register for this web seminar, please visit the registration page.

SAS Press webinar series

Alex Dmitrienko, BISUG founder

I would like to thank everybody who attended my May 11 webinar ("Using SAS Software in the Design of Clinical Trials") in which I discussed the role of SAS tools (SAS macros and Enterprise Guide custom tasks) in clinical trial applications. The archived version of the webinar (slides and audio) will be available on the webinar's web page. In the meantime, I have received several requests to share my slides. You can download the presentation in a PDF format.

By the way, my webinar was the third webinar in the four-part series organized by SAS Press. The last webinar in the series will be given by Kirk Lafler on May 25. To sign-up for that webinar, you need to visit the registration page (registration is free).

You can support Business Intelligence SAS Users Group (BISUG) by purchasing an electronic book, A Visual Guide to SAS Enterprise Guide 3.0. This e-book provides a concise review of main features of Enterprise Guide 3.0 and is an ideal way to get up to speed with this powerful software package!

The e-book explains the essentials of using Enterprise Guide 3.0. It introduces the main components of the program and demonstrates how they interact with each other.

The e-book is distributed in an Adobe PDF format via Amazon.com. To read the e-book, you will need Adobe Reader 6.0.

E-book on Amazon.com

By buying this e-book you will support the users group that helps bring SAS Business Intelligence to the masses!

Creating Basic Reports using SAS Web Report Studio

The target audience for this course, Creating Basic Reports using SAS Web Report Studio, is the Business Analyst who could have little or no SAS programming experience. The focus is creating basic and advanced reports quickly and easily, using the SAS Web Report Studio, from pre-defined data sources using a common user interface. Finally, a way of extracting the required data and building customized SAS reports without having to write a line of code!

The objective of this course is to give individual lessons to provide a good base knowledge in creating a new report using three main steps:

1. Select a report tool (Manual, Wizard, or Predefined template).
2. Select data.
3. Design a report layout.

The course contains 42 pages of lessons including slideshows, simulated software and course text, with SAS suggesting that it will take about 3 hours to complete. I found that without rushing through the material this class took approximately two hours and that I had given myself ample time to absorb all the detailed aspects covered in the material.

It is built to the same style and quality as other E-Learning courses offered by the SAS. Whether you select manual, wizard or predefined template, you are soon easily navigating the intuitive menu structure to select, filter and report the required data in a tabular and or graphical format for each objective task lesson.

I found that with the very common look and feel of the menus or wizard I was soon confident defining new reports. With the interspersed practices and occasional short quizzes at the end of a each learning section the participant is given a great way of reviewing and familiarizing them self with the tool usage. My newly gained self-confidence enabled me to create a new detailed report that could be saved and reused by other people with a few clicks of the mouse.

This kind of course can be covered thoroughly at a very affordable price, and the time scales that you are given to complete the course material are great as it allows you to start and stop around the normal daily job routine, this means that training does not have to be neglected.

This course would be very useful for all levels of experienced professional from Business analysts to Executives, at last a piece of intuitive software that will allow personnel from all levels of the corporate scale to access, and report their data easily.