An Introduction to SAS® ENTERPRISE GUIDE

Corporate Strength & StabilityReliability in a High-Risk Economy

• Largest Privately held software company in the world

• 2004 Revenue in excess of $1.5 Billion• SAS re-invest 26% of Revenue in R&D• Consistent revenue growth &

profitability• Commitment to innovation• Investment in domain expertise

R&D Spend:Percentage of Total Revenue

28 years

Rev

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$1B

26%

Local PresenceConnecting with Customers in Canada

• 6 offices in Canada• 200 employees• 540+ Customers• 1450+ installations • Local user groups

across the country

Enterprise Guide

• Easy to use point and click interface to the SAS system.

• Provides access to data manipulation, description, analysis, reporting and graphing functionality.

• Automatically generates SAS code which can be re-run and modified.

• EG tasks can be scheduled and auto-run.

Enterprise Guide

• Work organized into Project Tree and Process Flow.

Prepare and Manipulate Data

Describe and Report Patterns

Report Results in a Variety of Formats and Styles

• Table and report output available in HTML, PDF, RTF and text.• Large variety of styles to choose from OR user can take complete

control and create own style.

Present Graphs in a Variety of Formats

•Graphics output available in ActiveX, Java image, JPEG, GIF

Perform Basic and Advanced Statistical Analyses

Perform Survey Analyses

• Procedures designed for sampling and analysis of complex survey designs.

• Procedures gives correct variance and confidence intervals.

• PROCs SURVEYSELECT, SURVEYMEANS, SURVEYFREQ, SURVEYREG, SURVEYLOGISTIC

Easily Build Web Reports

HELP!?

•Simple and more extensive Help features.

•Technical and Statistical training specialist offer mentoring, and public or customized courses.

LETS HAVE A LOOK…

What The Analysts are saying………

“…SAS continues to provide one of the broadest portfolios of BI tools …” Source: Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2004-2008

Forecast Update & 2003 Vendor SharesIDC, Doc#21472 (July 2004)

“if you are struggling to harness the data in your business and the cost of trying to improve seems to be growing exponentially it time to look at SAS.”

Source: Bloor Research

(August 2004)

“SAS technology excels in complex business scenarios – areas that other BI vendors fear to tread.”

“Delivering Intelligence Across the Enterprise,”

Butler Group (April 2003)

“Of 24 vendors evaluated for the Gartner report, SAS was one of four rated ‘Positive’.”

Source: Gartner Campaign Management Marketscope Research(April 2005)

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