So here in sunny New Zealand a lot of customers are migrating to SAS 9.2 this year, but some won’t make it till next year (or beyond).
One customer I work with is in the next year camp. We have just started the rollout of EG across the business and one of the things we encourage/mandate is that before a user gets access to EG they must have attended the SAS EG course. (EG is just so damn powerful/dangerous in a untrained users hands!)
But just been told SAS now only run courses using SAS 9.2 software. So a dilemma or is it?
If we send our users on the EG 4.2 course I am concerned they will see all the things EG 4.1 doesn’t do and will focus on that, not the things EG 4.1 does very well (compared to other tools, SAS and non SAS)
But then again we need them trained.
EG 4.2 is a little different to EG 4.1 in navigation, functionality etc, but probably not enough that the user will get lost using 4.1 after being trained in 4.2.
(and I can understand SAS need to move training/courses to the latest version etc)
We have the SAS eLearning available to users (funnily enough still only SAS 9.1 based, wonder when that will change to 9.2?), so maybe self learning is enough?
Interested in your views, what are you doing for SAS 9.1 training?
Of course the customer is also currently recruiting BAU DI resource, so DI studio training will be a much bigger issue as DO Studio 3.4 compared to DI Studio 4.2 is a much bigger change.
Lastly if you know of any companies that sell SAS 9.1 training material (these have to have been developed independently of the SAS Education course notes of course and we will check!) that we could use to deliver internal training, let me know.
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