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SAS Visual Analytics delivers unprecedented ability to solve difficult problems, improve business performance, and mitigate risk rapidly and confidently. In this Friday's Innovation Inspiration blog, you will find a video of Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, demonstrating how effortlessly users can chart a billion rows of data in a point and click environment. I wonder how many SAS Certified programmers it took to prep the data for this revolutionary innovation.
NEWS
SAS Commitment to Customers Delivers Shared Success

SAS professionals around the world gathered in Orlando, FL, for SAS Global Forum 2012. The international users group gave SAS customers opportunities to shine and share their breakthroughs. These have been posted online for you: SAS Global Forum 2012 Proceedings and Best Contributed Papers.


SAS Certification Tutorials – No Cost »
SAS UK Education consultants lead online tutorials for individuals preparing to take a SAS Certification exam. These are offered at no cost via the SAS® Professionals.net Expert Channel .
SAS® Professionals Convention – 2012 »
Trying for a new SAS record, the planners for this year's SAS Professionals Convention are expecting 150 people to sit for the SAS Certification exams they are hosting on July 10. In years past, participants have enjoyed unprecedented support with weekly tutorials leading up to the testing event, and this year is no different. The next newsletter will report on attendance and the winning team.
Recent FAQ Answered »
Reminder – as with most certification programs, the score required to pass a SAS exam is subject to change at any time. This is because questions can be added, deleted, or changed within an exam pool due to ongoing maintenance and the difficultly level of an exam may change as a result. 
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Base Programming »
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    This tool checks any SAS log file for error and warning messages and links to SAS Usage Notes that are related to any of the messages that were found.
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    SAS Training Post blog by SAS Education technical trainer compares programming techniques used to combine data sets.

Advanced Programming »

Predictive Modeling »

BI Content Development »

Platform Administration »

GLOBAL SAS EVENTS

Analytics 2012

Oct. 8-9
Las Vegas



SAS® Professional Convention

July 10-12
Marlow, United Kingdom


EXAM EVENTS BY COUNTRY
Belgium and Luxembourg »
All exams offered
   Tervuren – Aug. 3 and Oct. 19
Denmark »
All exams offered
   Copenhagen – Aug. 30 and Oct. 2
France »
All exams except Predictive Modeling offered
   Vincennes – Aug. 10
      Aug. 24 and Oct. 19
Programming review training classes (starting dates)
   Vincennes – Aug. 10
      and Oct. 5 
Germany »
All exams offered
   Heidelberg – Aug. 13
      and Oct. 19
Italy »
Base Programming review training and exam (starting dates)
   Rome – Sept. 19
Advanced Programming review training and exam (starting dates)
   Milan – Sept. 19
Platform Administration review training and exam (starting dates)
   Milan– Sept. 24
BI Content Development review training and exam (starting dates)
   Milan – Sept. 3
   Rome – Oct. 15
Netherlands »
All exams offered
   Huizen – July 12
Norway »

All exams offered
   Oslo – Nov. 1
   Testing dates flexible. Contact SAS Norway office a week in advance to schedule a testing event in Oslo training center.


Sweden »
All exams except Predictive Modeling offered
   Stockholm – Oct. 12
Taiwan »
Programming exams offered
   Taipei – July 31, Aug. 23
      and Oct. 31
Predictive Modeling exam
   Taipei – Aug. 24 and Oct. 29
United Kingdom »

Base Programming exam
   Live Web Review Tutorial 
      (free) – July 30, Sept. 10 
      and Oct. 15
   Marlow – Aug. 28
   Glasgow – Sept. 12
   Manchester – Oct. 15
Advanced Programming exam
   Live Web Review Tutorial 
      (free) – July 23, Sept. 3
      and Oct. 8
   Marlow – Aug. 28
   Glasgow – Oct. 26
   Manchester – Sept. 24
Clinical Trials Programming exam
   Marlow – Oct. 12
Predictive Modeling exam
   Marlow – July 20, Aug. 13, 
      Sept 17 and Oct. 19
BI Content Development exam
   Live Web Review Tutorial 
      (free) – Aug. 6, Sept. 17
      and Oct. 22
   Marlow – Oct. 11
DI Development exam
   Live Web Review Tutorial 
      (free) – Aug. 13, Sept. 24
      and Oct. 29
   Marlow – Aug. 29
Platform Administration exam
   Live Web Review Tutorial 
      (free) – July16, Aug. 20
      and Oct. 1
   Marlow – Aug. 29

SAS® Professional Convention
  
Marlow – July 10


United States »

All exams offered
   Cary, NC – July 20, Aug. 13
      Sept. 17 and Oct. 19


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