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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Tune your SAS system for max performance](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2012/11/KEEP-code.jpg)
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation, has written four SAS books and more than 500 peer-reviewed papers - 19 of which were awarded Best Contributed Papers or Poster, so I’m going to believe him when he says that he’s figured out a thing or two about tuning SAS systems.
![Friday's Innovation Inspiration: Calculating frequencies in PROC MEANS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-1.png)
In pharmaceutical research, analysts often want to see the number of respondents who are at each site and the treatment they receive. Apparently, there's more than one way to produce correct results when you are using the PROC MEANS procedure. In Janet Willis' paper, Do You Have Too Much Class?, (awarded Best
![Considering submitting a paper for SAS Global Forum?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Are you considering submitting a paper to the SAS Global Forum? The deadline for submissions is right around the corner – here’s some ideas to help you get your paper selected! Steve Overton and Tricia Aanderud have presented papers at several of the SAS user groups and here are a
![How to build an Analytic Center of Excellence](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
'Develop an Analytic Center of Excellence (COE)' could be translated to – develop a culture of analytics in your organization such that every department and division sees value in analytics and pursues measurement for all strategic decisions.
![IT skills or SAS skills--what's more important?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
As one of the external instructors for the SAS Platform Administrator Fast Track course in Australia, I have found that the students who attend the courses come from diverse backgrounds. My experience so far has been an approximate 50-50 split, with half being IT system administrators wanting to learn how
![PROC ARIMA: Penetrating the matrix](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Justin Smith and William “Gui” Zupko were looking at manufacturing data over time and wanted to know the minimum value in their dataset, and they wanted to pinpoint its exact location – the specific row and column. PROC ARIMA uses the ARIMA (auto-regressive integrated moving average) model or the ARMA