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The online SAS Support Communities are a vibrant source of information and interaction for over 90,000 registered participants. Here you can ask (and answer) questions, grow (and share) your SAS expertise, and explore these collection points for other resources (like hot tips, articles, blogs, and events) relating to the community topic.

SAS Forecasting and Econometrics is one of over 30 such communities currently available on the SAS support pages.

This site should be visited and bookmarked by every user of SAS forecasting software. It contains answers on over 500 subjects, making it a great first stop when you have a coding or modeling question. (See my colleague Chris Hemedinger's informative blog about "How SAS Support Communities can expedite your tech support experience.")

Kinds of Forecasting and Econometrics Subjects

To give you a flavor for the subject matter in the community, here are some examples:

Most questions deal specifically with coding and modeling within SAS forecasting software. However, the community is also helpful for addressing broader questions on forecasting process, and for other forecasting-related announcements, such as:

Where to Begin

Lurking in your chosen community is perfectly acceptable. But I would encourage you to overcome any shyness, and to go ahead and post your questions (and answers).

Communities function best when there are lots of active participants, and the SAS communities are active. Chris Hemedinger cited recent statistics that 62% of questions get their first response within 60 minutes of posting! And 92% get responses within the first day.

Community moderators blast any unanswered questions to a corps of volunteer responders from SAS R&D, professional services, product management, and marketing. So there is a very good chance any questions you have will be answered promptly, and correctly, by an expert in the subject matter.

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Mike Gilliland

Product Marketing Manager

Michael Gilliland is a longtime business forecasting practitioner and formerly a Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters, and is Associate Editor of their practitioner journal Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Mike is author of The Business Forecasting Deal (Wiley, 2010) and former editor of the free e-book Forecasting with SAS: Special Collection (SAS Press, 2020). He is principal editor of Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions (Wiley, 2015) and Business Forecasting: The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Wiley, 2021). In 2017 Mike received the Institute of Business Forecasting's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021 his paper "FVA: A Reality Check on Forecasting Practices" was inducted into the Foresight Hall of Fame. Mike initiated The Business Forecasting Deal blog in 2009 to help expose the seamy underbelly of forecasting practice, and to provide practical solutions to its most vexing problems.

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