Finance Centric Meeting

PAPERS Now attached

Location: U.S. Bank, RiverBank Business Center, 2751 Shepard Road, St. Paul, MN 55116

Pre-Registration required. Free parking is available in the front parking lot with limited number of Visitor spaces.

Maximum Registrations: 80

Lunch (not sponsored) available prior from 11:30 to 1:00

Training available in morning from SAS author Kirk Paul Lafler 8:30 to 11:30. Click HERE for more information!

St. Paul, MN 55116

1:00 – 1:05 p.m.	Introduction and Welcome	Russ Littlefield, TCASUG Board
1:05 – 2:00 p.m.	SAS® Performance Tuning Techniques Abstract: As SAS® Software becomes increasingly more popular among programmers and end-users; guidelines for its efficient use are critical. This presentation illustrates numerous tips and techniques to control and manage program execution, I/O, memory, disk space, and program maintenance for an understanding of performance tuning strategies. A collection of proven techniques and code examples are presented to illustrate numerous practical methods for gaining efficiency while using SAS Software.	Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
2:00 – 2:10 p.m.	Break Sponsored by Apex Systems, Inc.
2:10 – 2:50 p.m.	A System to Calculate Market Value-at-Risk using Oracle® and Monte Carlo Simulation in SAS/IML® Abstract: SAS/IML® is used with Base SAS and Oracle® to produce a system to calculate Value-at-Risk with the flexibility to reflect changes in the database in the calculation and reporting.	George Rezek, GMAC Enterprise Risk Management
2:50 – 3:30 p.m.	Streamlining Reports - A look into Ad Hoc and Standardized Processes Abstract: This presentation will be focused on streamlining reporting processes. A particular emphasis will be placed on importing summarized information from SAS to an Excel workbook.	James Jenson, U.S. Bank

Free Webinar: Exploring Dictionary Tables with PROC SQL by Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
http://support.sas.com/publishing/bbu/webinar.html#lafler2

Paper: SQL Joins -- The Long and The Short of It by Paul Kent, SAS Institute
http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts553.html