The new features added to the software since the previous publication of this user’s guide are summarized in Chapter 1, What’s New in SAS High-Performance Forecasting 3.1. If you have used the SAS High-Performance Forecasting software in the past, you might want to skim this chapter to see what is new.

Following the brief "What’s New" chapter, this book is divided into three major parts:

• Part One contains general information to aid you in working with SAS High-Performance Forecasting software.

  The current chapter provides an overview of this software and summarizes related SAS publications, products, and services.

• Part Two, the "Procedure Reference," contains the chapters that explain the SAS procedures that make up SAS High-Performance Forecasting software. The chapters that document each of the procedures appear in alphabetical order by procedure name and are organized as follows:

  1. Each chapter begins with an "Overview" section that gives a brief description of the procedure.

  2. The "Getting Started" section provides a tutorial introduction about how to use the procedure.

  3. The "Syntax" section is a reference to the SAS statements and options that control the procedure.

  4. The "Details" section discusses various technical details.

  5. The "Examples" section contains examples of the use of the procedure.

  6. The "References" section contains technical references on methodology.

• Part Three provides a summary of and computational details about the SAS High-Performance Forecasting System, an interactive forecasting menu system. Two of the chapters in Part Three document the details of the forecasting process.