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How to Become a Top SAS Programmer is designed to help SAS programmers maximize their value to an organization. Users will gain a better understanding of the SAS resources available to them so that they can enhance their SAS skills and knowledge, thereby becoming better SAS programmers.

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9781612901046

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I think Renu Gehring's SAS Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Practical Applications is a standout technical work that rewards the reader with the fruits of the author's exhaustive exploration of the capabilities of the SAS business intelligence tools. One feels in reading this like you're profiting from many hours spent discovering the limits of what the array of SAS BI tools can do. The book does an excellent job of making the reader aware of the extensive library of tools available: SAS Stored Processes, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office, SAS Web Report Studio, dashboards, SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Information Map Studio; it's all here. Gehring introduces these tools and then develops the healthcare applications for each. The data used in the applications is similar to data healthcare that analysts actually work with, and I think even veteran BI developers will find some gems here. For example, embedding a link to a stored process inside stored process output, and making what is usually static results dynamic, are especially creative techniques. Another strength of the book concerns the variety of applications that are developed. Gehring emphasizes how different parts of the organization can benefit from the implementation of SAS BI. The finance department can use Excel to run stored processes to create revenue reports. Clinicians in medical management can use the web reports and information maps that analysts have developed to create patient profiles and improve patient care. -- Clif Hindmarsh Healthcare Analyst

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Michael A. Raithel is a senior systems analyst for Westat, an employee-owned contract research organization in the Washington, DC, area. He has worked with Information Systems in the commercial and government sectors since 1980. An internationally recognized expert in the use of SAS software in mainframe and UNIX environments, Michael is the author of more than 25 SAS technical papers and is a popular lecturer at SAS Global Forum and at regional SAS conferences. Michael has been a section chair at SUGI, SESUG, and NESUG, and he co-chaired NESUG in 1995. He has been a keynote speaker at WUSS, SCSUG, PharmaSUG, and a Featured Lunchtime Speaker at SAS Global Forum. Michael has taught SAS classes at SUGI, SAS Global Forum, and at American University in Washington, DC. He has written three books for SAS Press, with another in the works, How to Become a Top SAS Programmer. A copy of the first edition of Tuning SAS Applications in the MVS Environment resides in the Smithsonian Institution of American History's Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology.

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