Queensland Users Exploring SAS Technology

Michelle Homes

Q2 2015

WELCOME TO QUEST

AGENDA• Welcome

• Michelle Homes, Business Development Manager, Consultant & Trainer, Metacoda

• A SAS Journey – Some Know Hows from Building a Commercial Credit Rating Data Mart

• Sebastian Schnelle, Credit Risk Control Manager, Bank of Queensland

• Big Data Analytics – The Future of Analysis

• Peter Hughes, Principal Business Analytics Solutions Consultant, SAS Australia

• Break

• Hot Fuzz – Using SAS Fuzzy Data Matching Techniques to Identity

Duplicate and Related Customer Records

• Stuart Edwards, Head of Analytics, Collection House

• Networking with Random Draw & Prizes

QUEST UPDATE

• Committee Members

• Alice Conomos is on secondment in Sydney

• Amanda Maker and Meng Zhang are on maternity leave

• Michelle Homes, Burton Wu, Leonard Scuderi and Alan Davies

• Interested in joining the committee? Let us know!

• Present at a QUEST (remember the SAS User Group Presenter Incentive!)

• Let us know if you are interested in presenting

• At each QUEST a prize is awarded to the best presentation content voted by users

• The person is then put into the random drawer for a major draw prize

• Winner for Q4 2014 QUEST meeting was Paul Smith

• Driving Forward: Followmont Transport’s journey on SAS Visual Analytics

SASGF15 UPDATE

• Bronwen Fairbairn – best presenter award

• Presented at Q3 2014 meeting on SAS and Data Vault Warehousing

• Won the random draw prize to SAS Global Forum with expenses paid by SAS Australia

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SAS TECHNOLOGY ROADSHOW

• Instead of a Q3 2015 QUEST meeting…

• SAS Technology Roadshow in August

• Presentations

• Data competition

• Awards evening with various prizes including a trip to SAS Global Forum 2016

• Keep posted for details

https://communities.sas.com/groups/sanzoc

CONNECT WITH US…

• QUEST LinkedIn Group: linkd.in/SASquest

• SANZOC : communities.sas.com/groups/sanzoc/

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/SASAustNZ

• Twitter: www.twitter.com/sas_anz

• YouTube: www.youtube.com/SASAsiaPacific

• Blog: blogs.sas.com/content/anz

UPDATE & EVALUATION

• SAS User Community Update

• Q3 2015 No QUEST event – SAS user technical road shows in August

• QUEST LinkedIn group - http://linkd.in/SASquest

• SANZOC – https://communities.sas.com/groups/sanzoc

• Paper evaluation – fill it in for the random draw prizes!

• Don’t forget to let us know if you’d like to present at a future

QUEST… (mentoring is provided)

• Let us know if you want to join the QUEST committee

REMINDERS

• SAS User Community Update

• Q3 2015 No QUEST event – SAS user technical road shows in August

• QUEST LinkedIn group - http://linkd.in/SASquest

• SANZOC – https://communities.sas.com/groups/sanzoc

• Paper evaluation – fill it in for the random draw prizes!

• Don’t forget to let us know if you’d like to present at a future

QUEST… (mentoring is provided)

• Let us know if you want to join the QUEST committee

SASGF15 METACODA KOALA FUN