Training

WHAT IS THE SAS SYSTEM?

SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. With innovative business applications supported by an enterprise intelligence platform, SAS helps more than 44,000 organizations improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

More than 2,900 financial institutions worldwide are SAS customers, including 96 percent of banks on the FORTUNE Global 500.

SAS CUSTOMERS IN NIGERIA INCLUDE;

• First Bank of Nigeria (SAS Risk Management Solution Software and SAS Operational Risk Management Solution)
• Skye Bank (Operational Risk Management & SAS Anti-money Laundering Solution)
• FCMB Bank (Operational Risk Management & SAS Anti-money Laundering Solution)
• GTB Bank (SAS Anti-money Laundering Solution)
• MTN (Sales Forecast)
• Mainstreet Bank (SAS Anti-money Laundering Solution)
• Sterling Bank (SAS Anti-money Laundering Solution)and lots more
   

SAS Foundation Module:

• SAS Programmer/Analyst

  The person is responsible for accessing and managing data and performing complex queries and analyses.

  Course List
  • SAS Base Programming for SAS 9
  • SAS Advanced Programming for SAS 9

• SAS Base Programming Overview

  This course is for users who want to learn how to write SAS programs. It is the entry point to learning SAS programming and is the main prerequisite to many other SAS courses. If you do not plan to write SAS programs and you prefer a point and- click interface, you should attend the SAS Enterprise

SAS Advanced Programming Overview

This course is for a user who wants to go extra miles in SAS and it is necessary for this person to have prior experience of programming in SAS Base Programming

There are three modules for a user who wants to learn SAS Advanced Programming namely:

• SAS SQL
• SAS Macro Language
• SAS Advanced Techniques and Efficiencies
   

Enterprise Business Intelligence/Report Writer Module:

Business Analytic User

This person will use SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office: Ms Word, Ms Excel, Ms PowerPoint and Ms Outlook to access existing information as well as creating his/her own reports and analyses using point-and-click application.

This course is designed for those users who have good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Outlook to analyse data, accessing reports and day to day work. This course teaches users by using MS Office with SAS.

Due to large amount of data for users to access and for their reports it takes many days for the work done but SAS Add-in for MS Office will take few minutes.

Business Analytics Modules

Statistical Analyst

This course is designed on how to clean and prepare data for analysis as well as conduct and interpret simple to complex statistical data analyses. 
 

Data Miner/Predictive Modeller

This course covers the skills required to assemble analysis flow diagrams using the rich tool set of SAS Enterprise Miner using predictive models (decision tree, regression, and neural network models).