Allan Bowe
Chief SAS App Officer
Find Your SAS Sensei
Allan Bowe
SAS Support
1971
Channels
- Phone
- Web ticket
- Dedicated Resource
When emailing support@sas.com, it's helpful to use the following template (colon separated name value pairs)
Web Ticket
Will prepopulate items based on your profile: http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform/createForm
SAS User Groups
1976
Lex Jansen
Types
- Local
- Regional
- Global
- SUGI (SGF since 2007)
- Forums
- Conferences
Links
- Meetup site
- Slack
- User Groups Website
- SAS Communities Page
Locations
- Brussels
- Antwerp
- Leuven
- Diegem
- Tervuren
Sponsors
- ING
- Ergo Insurance
+ B&D, SBI Consulting, Laco NV & Keyrus
- Founded in March 2018
- Managed by:
- Michel Lehon
- Fernando Tenorio
- 12 meetups so far
- 250 members
SAS-L
1986
Search the archives
Contains all emails since 1996
https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?REPORT&z=4&1=SAS-L&L=SAS-L
First Ever SAS-L Post
SAS vs SPSS
"In the early 90's was the Great SAS vs SPSS War, when comments were being cross-posted to SAS-L and SPSSX-L."
F J Kelley
(listserv site manager)
Top 10 Contributors in 2018
| Roger DeAngelis | 1678 |
|---|---|
| Paul Dorfman | 378 |
| Joe Matise | 224 |
| Nat Wooding | 162 |
| Vincent Martin | 151 |
| Yinglin Wu | 145 |
| Bartosz Jabłoński | 123 |
| Mark Keintz | 116 |
| Rick Wicklin | 81 |
| Quentin McMullen | 80 |
Total Posts: 4626 (down from 5109 in 2017)
A collection of presentations with more detailed historical stats is available here:
Approximate Posts
2018 4626
Signup
1 – Sign up to the listserv service: https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?GETPW1
2 – Verify your email
3 – Subscribe to SAS-L mailing list: https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sas-l
SAS Communities
2006
Usage in 2018
- 18,000 new topics
- 95,000 messages
- 80,000 topics overall
- 47,000 new members
Fast Response Times
Content
- Q&A discussions
- Articles
- Webinar
These members are the outliers – they are crazy-active and usually respond first to most tech questions
More info here
These members have shown a knack for helping, encouraging and leading other community members. They have gone above and beyond when offering their advice to other SAS users.
More info here
2007
So Long, Farewell
Tip of the Day
2008
Started by Paul Hawley on 13th March 2008.
Continued for many years by Phil Holland then subsequently:
- Andrew Karp (late)
- Andrew Howell
- Nik Markovic
33,470 members (up 500 from last year)
2008
Last Year
Last Year
Last Year
SAS proactively listens and responds with technical help on the @SAS_Cares channel
Last Year
2008
First Question
Top users in 2018
All Time Top 10 Answerers
Last Year
Rep Race!
2009
Stats
2010
https://www.quora.com/topic/SAS
- 34.5k followers
- 8.6k more than last year
Last Year
2010
2011
Last Year
First Post - March 29th 2011
Other Stuff
- SAS Blogs
- Google Groups
- Youtube
- Codementor.io
2017
Stats
- ~3000 players
- ~1000 questions
Levels
New features
- Badges
- LaTex / Mathjax
- Alerts
- Certificates
- Professional URL
Allan Bowe
allan@boemskats.com
www.linkedin.com/in/allanbowe
Find Your SAS Sensei
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