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Our February meeting features talks by three of SAS Institute's leading industry analysts. The meeting will begin with a panel discussion explaining the most important new technologies in information processing. Each analyst will also give a presentation on his area of specialization. This is also a great opportunity to meet the staff of SAS Institute's Boston office and to learn about the services they offer. Door prizes will be given away at the end of the meeting.
This meeting is open to BASUG members and those who would like to learn more about the group. During the meeting, there will be ample opportunity for both new and former members to enroll for 1997. Our dues are only $16 per year per person, or $60 for all users at one site.
Please register for the meeting ** by January 28 ** by contacting:
What is data warehousing? Data mining? The World Wide Web? How is an intranet different from the internet? How do important new technologies like these fit into the information needs of your organization?
To answer these questions, BASUG chairperson, Paul Grant will moderate a discussion with three industry analysts from SAS Institute: John McIntyre, Rick Langston and Chip Kelly. Together they will identify and describe the major technological trends in information technology today, and explain their importance to your organization. They will also talk briefly on how you can learn about these technologies in more detail at SUGI 22.
Paul Grant is a Senior Programmer/Analyst at Private Healthcare Systems in Waltham, MA. He chaired the SUGI 21 (Chicago, 1996) and NESUG '94 (Philadelphia, 1994) SAS user group conferences. He is currently chairperson of the Boston Area SAS Users Group. Paul has been using SAS software in a variety of industries since 1981.
Rick Langston, SAS Institute
This tutorial discusses several advanced features of format processing that can be of interest even to knowledgable users of the SAS System. Items covered include: using formats as labels, cntlout and cntlin data sets, gaining efficiency with the NOTSORTED option, using a format as an alternative to sorting large data sets, and comparing V5 and V6 formats.
Rick Langston is a Senior Systems Developer at SAS Institute Inc. He is the product manager for SAS/TOOLKIT Software, and is also responsible for a variety of base and core software within the SAS System, including PROC FORMAT. Rick has been a SAS user for 20 years, of which 17 have been at SAS Institute.
Chip Kelly, SAS Institute
Riding the wave of interest in web applications, SAS Institute's recent announcement of the availability on their web site of downloadable Web Publishing tools ushers in a new era of open functionality for the SAS System. In this presentation Chip Kelly will describe the web publishing process, and how these new tools from SAS Institute simplify the process of turning SAS-generated reports into SAS Powered web pages.
Chip Kelly is Program Manager for Web Enablement at SAS Institute Inc. Chip's been using SAS software since 1972, and has been at SAS Institute since 1984.
John McIntyre, SAS Institute
SAS Software has been used by thousands of enterprises to successfully implement Data Warehouses, from the data extraction steps all the way to enablement of easy access to information consumers. The tasks in the Management and Organization phases of Warehouse 'construction' have been, to date, accomplished by combining the capabilities found in the SAS/ACCESS family of engines with the transformation functionality found in the 4th generation language of SAS. A new product, the SAS Data Warehouse Admininstrator helps automate these processes. Features in the Data Warehouse Administrator include mapping routines to key legacy and relational data sources, code generation, visual organization of the warehouse structures and creation and maintenance of a metadata directory. This presentation will review these features, and demonstrate how they work.
John McIntyre is Marketing Strategy Manager for the Business Solution Division of SAS Institute Inc. In this position he is responsible for marketing directions for decision support applications exploiting popular client/server packaged solutions. John has been at SAS Institute since 1987.
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