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

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

3. We Come In Peace

5. 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.
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6. 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 s, 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.
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7. "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

8. 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

9. 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
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SAS Customer

10. 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.”
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11. 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?

12. Thank you!
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