1. Copyright © 2007, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. SAS Global Forum 2008 - Recap Presented by: Rupinder Dhillon June 13, 2008

2. Copyright © 2007, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. First off – the numbers….. Over 3700 attendees from 48 countries 22% came from outside of the US (with 5% of non-US attendees coming from Canada) Industries represented: Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Banking Education Insurance Government Telecommunications Retail Over 400 presentations 12 Pre conference seminars 43 Coders Corners sessions 13 Hands on Workshops 37 Tutorials 44 Industry Focus presentations 67 presentations from International presenters 111 stations on the demo room to interact with SAS Staff

3. Copyright © 2007, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Best Contributed Paper Awards BI User Applications: Paper: 052-2008 - Developing a Dashboard to Aid in Effective Project Management Coders Corner Paper: 079-2008 - A Step-by-Step Introduction to PROC REPORT, Data Integration Paper: 135-2008 - Getting SAS® to Play Nice with Others: Connecting SAS® to Microsoft SQL Server with an ODBC Connection Planning, Development and Support Paper: 217-2008 - How to Get Promoted: Planning for Career Growth Reporting and Information Visualization Paper: 259-2008 - Revisiting DDE: An Updated Macro for Exporting SAS® into Custom- Formatted Excel Spreadsheets Statistics and Data Analysis Paper: 376-2008 - Using Regression Diagnostics and Clustering Criteria to Uncover ID Errors, Systems Architecture Paper: 386-2008 -Using nmon to Monitor SAS® Applications on AIX Servers,

4. Copyright © 2007, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. And from SAS…. Everything you need to know about 9.2 Um, other than when it would be available…..  Enhanced Logging Facilities (308-2008)  What's new in SAS/Access (301-2008)  Enterprise Guide and Add-in for Microsoft 4.2 (294-2008)  Metadata Promotion in 9.2 (331-2008)  Better Hashing in SAS® 9.2 (306-2008)  Proc FCMP – write your own functions….  Enhancements to SAS/Graph (323-2008)  Modernize Your Business Reports Using ODS and SAS/GRAPH®: A Case Study from SAS® 8.2 to SAS® 9.2 (325-2008)

5. Copyright © 2007, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Getting Ready for Next Year  SAS Global Forum 2009 will be held March 22 - 25, 2009  National Harbor, Maryland  4 Canadian Section Chairs – so start thinking about presentation ideas  Keep an eye out for Call for papers around Mid-July  Talk to your Managers…

6. Copyright © 2007, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Canadian Users’ Night Out…  Cowboys Dancehall on the Monday Night Rodeo Line Dancing Fun…

7. Copyright © 2007, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. The Canadian SAS Users President’s Council  Chance to meet with the User group presidents from across Canada to exchange ideas and best practices  Round table discussion on the use of Social media and how SAS users can leverage the online tools  SASCommunity.org  Online Forum for Canadian SAS Users and Canadian SAS User Groups