SAS Education Practice George Habek Sr Analytical Training Consultant Scott MacConnell Sr Account Executive, Academic Outreach Manager

Agenda George Habek Product Demonstration Scott MacConnell SAS Introduction George Habek Product Demonstration

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Sas not just descriptive analytics FORECASTING AND TRUE PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS HIGH-PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS Today’s economic, competitive and financial conditions are complex and dynamic in nature. Focusing on growth and agility, while managing costs, is more important than ever. Through high-performance analytics, SAS qualifies as the only vendor able to quickly deliver competitive advantage while addressing your highest-priority objectives.   Speed up innovation and quickly launch products or services to outperform competitors. Gain precise insights to seize new opportunities and differentiate in the marketplace. Exploit big data to capture value and change the way you make decisions. Drive compelling customer engagements to increase top-line revenue growth. Take advantage of innovative hardware advances and processing options to solve larger problems and tackle more complex scenarios. Transform structured and unstructured data assets into business value using big data analytics with multiple deployment options. SAS continues to solve some of the most complex domain and vertical-specific business issues in the world. Every level of SAS software—including SAS Business Solutions and SAS’ technology infrastructure (information management, analytics and business intelligence)— relies on high-performance analytics capabilities to turn mounds of big data into big opportunities for your business. Add/substitute proof points specific to your audience or country

Sas Is More than just Analytics INFORMATION MANAGEMENT The ability to manage information is becoming more problematic due to increasing data volumes, velocity, frequency and complexity. This has been exacerbated by the massive growth of unstructured documents such as e-mails, text documents, presentations, images, video files, etc. SAS helps you manage and govern this deluge (both structured and unstructured) by providing a unified approach that includes data integration, data quality, data mastering, enterprise data access and data governance. SAS information management is tightly integrated with the analytics capability that is at the heart of SAS business solutions. This integration ensures accuracy and faster time to value. SAS provides the highest level of reliability, availability and performance in demanding real- time environments—from highly optimized data access to high-performance analytics options that include grid computing, in-database processing and in-memory analytics.   Add/substitute proof points specific to your audience or country

"There's a huge, huge demand for people with these particular skills, the ability to handle and work with large amounts of data to do the analytics, to do forecasting and prediction….And there's just a tremendous shortage right now. Every company out there is really interested in analytics -- they want people with analytical talent.“ Jim Goodnight, CEO

Areas of Support Initiatives On-site Workshops Teaching Materials Joint Certificate Programs OnDemand Software & SAS University Edition Curriculum Consulting Summer Workshops Free e-learning Materials Advanced Business Analytics Boot- Camp AP Stat for High Schools On-site Workshops Development & Support of Masters programs Guest Speakers Student Programs Partnerships (TUN) SAS® Visual Analytics & SAS® Visual Statistics Evaluation Books & Course Notes Programming for High Schools

Professor Student Overall Approach SAS SAS Customer Universities, Customers and SAS W University Professor Student 3 Way Win Overall Approach Universities rely on SAS to recommend companies to recruit their students Commercial customers recruit students SAS helps Universities develop programs and teach needed skills Commercial customers advise programs and sit on advisory boards SAS SAS Customer

SAS® Analytics skills are the most valuable skills a candidate can bring to the job market - Money and PayScale study More information about the study can be found in the Money article, “The 21 Most Valuable Career Skills Now.” SAS PR - http://www.sas.com/en_us/news/press-releases/2016/may/money- magazine-sas-skills.html?utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=press-release

By 2018, demand for workers skilled in analytics could outpace supply by 60 percent – or 1.5 million jobs – according to a McKinsey Global Institute study. Are you preparing students to fill the gap?

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