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Want To Learn How To Increase SAS Efficiency In Your Organization?

You are invited to attend a workshop to learn how to:

  • Reduce the time of long running SAS jobs
  • Take advantage of the Netezza appliance to score your SAS models in parallel for lightning fast scores
  • Free up time for your analysts and statisticians to create more models that result in additional business value
  • Shrink the time it takes to cleanse and transform your data – the activity that takes the most time
  • Learn how SAS is being redeveloped to execute inside a Netezza massively parallel database
  • Use the same SAS interface and syntax you already know to get faster analysis by reducing the run time from hours to minutes for long running jobs
  • See the future of SAS in your organization, and the skill set you will need to succeed

Agenda:

8-9 a.m. Registration, Breakfast and Networking
9-10:30 a.m.

Presentations:

  • Welcome to the new world of massively parallel SAS
  • Why does SAS run so fast on Netezza?
  • How do I rethink my SAS programs and storage to always get lightning
    speed?
  • How do I move scoring inside the database?
  • How can I clean and transform data in place to speed up any bottlenecks?
  • SAS 9.3 and beyond, what's next for SAS in-database capabilities?
  • Simple administration of Netezza
  • Show and tell with benchmarks
  • Case study 1 – 12 Hours to 12 Minutes
  • Case study 2 – How a major financial institution instituted massively
    parallel infrastructure for the SAS business users
10:30-11 a.m. Q&A and Closing Remarks

Who Should Attend:

SAS Users, SAS Analysts, SAS Developers, Database Analysts, Analytic Managers, Analytic Directors and SAS Programmers who use any of the following SAS capabilities:

  • Data Step Merges
  • Hash Objects
  • Array Joins
  • Macro Joins
  • Index Joins
  • Data Step Scoring
  • Concurrent Processing
  • Proc Means
  • Proc Summary
  • Proc SQL
  • Proc Tabulate
  • Data Step Accumulators
  • Sum Statments
  • Proc Sort
  • Order Bys
  • Group Bys
  • Data Set Replaces
  • Proc Append
  • Variable  Creation
  • Variable Updates
  • Grid Processing
  • Proc Formats
  • Table Lookups
  • Sequential Processing
  • Process Flows
  • Use of Work
  • Scoring
 

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Event Details:

Location:                       
Seattle, WA
May 22, 2012

Houston, TX
May 23, 2012

Denver, CO
May 24, 2012

Montreal, QC
June 6, 2012

Toronto, ON
June 7, 2012

Minneapolis, MN
June 12, 2012

Los Angeles, CA
June 13, 2012

San Jose, CA
June 14, 2012

Chicago, IL
June 19, 2012

Featured Speaker:
Dana Rafiee
IT Principal
Destiny Corporation

 



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