What can I do with SAS Enterprise Guide? You might have heard about SAS software and thought that you had to be a programmer to use it. Well, you don't! SAS Enterprise Guide has ready-to-use tasks that you can use to create detail, summary, and graphical reports, and to perform statistical analyses. When you use these tasks, SAS Enterprise Guide writes the SAS program for you and sends it to SAS. If you need to manipulate your data, SAS Enterprise Guide also has a point-and-click interface that enables you to perform queries without doing any programming. SAS Enterprise Guide also makes it easy to present the results of the tasks that you can perform. You can create results in several different formats, such as HTML, PDF, and RTF that you paste into a Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint document.

All of your work in SAS Enterprise Guide is easy to manage because it is stored together in one file, called a project. The tasks that you learn to do in this tutorial are basic to SAS Enterprise Guide. You work with data, run a task, and work with results. When you are familiar with these basic tasks, you are ready to learn most any advanced task. Next you learn how SAS Enterprise Guide works with SAS.