Ampersand Academy offers a 30-hour SAS programming course suitable for graduates and professionals without prior programming experience. The course covers a wide range of topics including data warehousing, statistical analysis, and SAS programming concepts, preparing students for various roles such as SAS programmer and data analyst. With the demand for SAS skills across multiple industries, graduates benefit from high job security and lucrative positions.

1. AAmmppeerrssaanndd AAccaaddeemmyy
#7/6, Swamiyar Garden Street, Ashok Nagar, Chennai – 83 Phone: +91 9600 111 210
www.ampersandacademy.com | info@ampersandacademy.com
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM 9.x
[BASE SAS, SAS/STAT, SAS/ODS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/SQL, SAS/REPORTS, SAS/MACROS]
Duration: 30 Hours | 15 Weekdays @ 2 Hours/Day | 5 Weekends @ 4 Hours/Day
SAS [STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM] is an integrated system of software solutions provided by
SAS Institute that enables the programmer to perform:
₪ Data entry, Retrieval, Management, and Mining
₪ Report Writing and Graphics
₪ Statistical Analysis
₪ Business Planning, Forecasting, and Decision Support
₪ Operations Research And Project Management
₪ Quality Improvement
₪ Financial Data Management & Analysis
₪ Data Warehousing (Extract, Transform, Load)
₪ Risk Analysis
₪ Platform Independent and Remote Computing
Furthermore, SAS has numerous large-scale software solutions for various corporate
management divisions such as IT Management, Human Resource Management, Financial
Management, Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management and more. Any
graduate with experience in handling computer can learn SAS and there is no need of any prior
programming experience. SAS is mainly used in Financial, Retail, Marketing, Insurance, and
Clinical Projects. SAS provides solution for more than 100 fields ranging from Aerospace to
Genetics and from Manufacturing to Marketing.
SAS Programmers are considered a valuable resource, highly-paid and have a high level of job
security even during economic slowdown. Once trained they can obtain the position of
₪ SAS Programmer
₪ Business Analyst
₪ Statistical Analyst
₪ Clinical Programmer
₪ SAS - Credit Risk Analyst
₪ Datawarehousing Architect
₪ ETL Developer
₪ Data Analyst
The Programming Language is so easy that a person from Non-IT background too can learn the
software with ease in about 30-40 Hours of Training. Prospective Candidates for the SAS Course
are Fresher, Graduates & Post Graduates of Statistics, Life Sciences, Science & Mathematics
₪ Research Scholars
₪ Management Graduates &Professionals
₪ IT Professionals who want to upgrade themselves in Datawarehousing Domain
Briefly, Learn SAS and step into a new world which can lead you into job from multiple domains.

2. AAmmppeerrssaanndd AAccaaddeemmyy
#7/6, Swamiyar Garden Street, Ashok Nagar, Chennai – 83 Phone: +91 9600 111 210
www.ampersandacademy.com | info@ampersandacademy.com
COURSE CURRICULUM
INTRODUCTION TO SAS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
₪ Introduction to Datawarehousing
₪ Data storage, functionality & security – an introduction
₪ Database vs. Datawarehouse
₪ OLAP, ROLAP, MOLAP, & HOLAP
₪ Introduction to SAS
₪ Why SAS?
₪ SAS Characteristics & functionality
SAS LIBRARIES
₪ Library classification
₪ GUI and CUI Modes
₪ Permanent & temporary libraries
₪ Linked library
₪ Connecting to various data sources
PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS
₪ Rules of SAS program
₪ Sample SAS program
₪ SAS Data files and formats
₪ Reading data in SAS - types
₪ SAS automatic variables
₪ Reading from in-stream files
₪ Informats
₪ Formats
₪ SAS date & time
₪ Reading external files
₪ Tab delimited files
₪ Data set options
₪ SAS-Statements
₪ Conditional processing
₪ Operators in SAS
₪ Local and Global Statements
FUNCTIONS IN SAS
₪ Arithmetic functions
₪ Date time functions
₪ String functions
₪ Probability density functions
MERGE & SPLIT SAS DATA SETS
₪ Splitting SAS data sets
₪ Merging SAS data sets
₪ Conditional merge
₪ Set merge
₪ Merge merge
₪ SAS as router
LOOPS IN SAS
₪ Loops usage ₪ Do, Do-while, Do-until loops

3. AAmmppeerrssaanndd AAccaaddeemmyy
#7/6, Swamiyar Garden Street, Ashok Nagar, Chennai – 83 Phone: +91 9600 111 210
www.ampersandacademy.com | info@ampersandacademy.com
ARRAYS
₪ Uses of arrays
₪ Basic array concepts
₪ Syntax
₪ Rules
₪ Using array indexes
₪ Non indexed arrays
₪ One-dimension arrays
₪ Multi-dimension arrays
₪ Temporary arrays
₪ Sorting arrays
SAS PROCEDURES
₪ PROC ANOVA
₪ PROC COMPARE
₪ PROC CONTENTS
₪ PROC CORR
₪ PROC DATASETS
₪ PROC DBLOAD
₪ PROC FORMAT
₪ PROC FREQ
₪ PROC MEANS
₪ PROC OPTIONS
₪ PROC PRINT
₪ PROC RANK
₪ PROC REG
₪ PROC REPORT
₪ PROC SORT
₪ PROC SUMMARY
₪ PROC TABULATE
₪ PROC TRANSPOSE
₪ PROC TTEST
₪ PROC UNIVARIATE
ADVANCED SAS PROGRAMMING
₪ SAS/GRAPH
₪ SAS/MACROS
₪ SAS/ODS
₪ SAS/SQL
OPTIONAL PACKAGES [Please enquire for Package Charges]
₪ SAS/Enterprise Guide 4.1 ₪ SAS/JMP 10
OTHER TRAINING BENEFITS
₪ Intro to Real-Time programming
₪ Base SAS certification assistance
₪ Resume Framing Assistance
₪ Excellent training materials
ABOUT THE TRAINERS
₪ Trained by proficient Trainers having efficacious track record and proven methodology.
₪ Majority of students are Certified
₪ Over 70% students are Placed