Introduction.
Part I: Welcome to SAS!
Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World of SAS.
Chapter 2: Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS Enterprise Guide.
Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS.
Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information.
Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!
Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That?
Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Less Than a Minute.
Chapter 7: You Want Fries with That Graph?
Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Business Intelligence.
Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics.
Chapter 9: More Analytics to Enlighten and Entertain.
Chapter 10: Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output.
Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces.
Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate.
Chapter 12: OLAP: Impressing Your Co-workers.
Chapter 13: Supercharge Microsoft Office with SAS.
Chapter 14: Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered.
Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock and Roll.
Chapter 15: Setting It All Up.
Chapter 16: Taming the Data Beast.
Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and SAS Enterprise Guide.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 18: Ten SAS Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips.
Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators.
Chapter 20: Ten (or More) Web Resources for Extra Information.
Index.
Stephen McDaniel works at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA, and is the Senior Manager of User Empowerment–Business
Intelligence and Analytics. He is a strategic advisor and mentor for the business units in Yahoo! Search Marketing, helping business users to harness the potential of their data assets for planning and decision-making. As a member of Strategic Data Systems, he works closely with the data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic teams on behalf of the business units to provide user-centric vision and guidance to their efforts. You can reach him at www.stephenmcdaniel.us. Previously, Stephen was the senior manager in charge of the SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office development teams at SAS. Stephen has been a SAS user for more than 17 years and has experience at over 50 companies as a statistician, statistical programmer, product manager, and manager of data warehousing and business intelligence.
Chris Hemedinger is a senior software manager in the Business Intelligence Clients division at SAS. Chris began his career at SAS in 1993 as a technical writer, creating such hits as SAS Companion for the OS/2 Environment (remember OS/2?) and SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment. In 1997, he became involved in a prototype project to make SAS easier to use for non-programmers, and that project evolved into the hugely popular SAS Enterprise Guide, a product that Chris has worked with ever since.