The following is from Dennis Dylong of the Twin Cities SAS Users Group: ___________________________________________________________________ Twin Cities SAS Users' Group MEETING REMINDER Mar. 6, 1997

WHERE: SAS Institute Regional Office Dain Bosworth Plaza Suite 3250, 32nd Floor 60 South 6th Street Minneapolis MN 55402

SCHEDULED TOPICS:

12:30 - 1:15 Executive Committee meeting, anyone can attend.. 1:20 - 1:30 Announcements. 1:30 - 2:20 Andy Horton will present: RApplying Object-Oriented Principles to SAS/AF". 2:30 - 3:20 Sally Goostrey will present her SUGI 22 paper, "Industry Directions and the Impact on SAS Programming". 3:30 - 4:20 Andy Horton will present his SUGI 22 paper, "Evolutionary Warehouse --- an Object Oriented Approach".

If you have any questions, please call Dennis Dylong at (612) 936-1113.

AndyUs papers make Object-oriented programming less spooky and threatening. His papers make sense of the goals of object-oriented programming: strict isolation of data elements and related code within boundaries, partitioning of problems into less complex subproblems, independence of one module from another (with controlled communications between), interchangeability of one implementation with any other which supports the same functionality, continuity of real-world concepts through analysis and design..

SallyUs paper addresses the many issues being faced today by individuals in business responsible for setting information technology directions and strategies. Her paper reviews areas of SAS software usage in business, outlines some of the challenges faced by business today and suggests some approaches to evaluating current IT capabilities.

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Sally Goostrey is the Director of Technical Services at Trilogy Consulting Corporation. She is also the Alliance Manager for the Strategic Alliance between Trilogy Consulting and SAS Institute. Sally will be the conference chair for SUGI 23 in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998. With a background in Computer Science, Sally has used SAS for over 14 years for various programming needs. With Trilogy since 1990, and The Upjohn Company prior to that, Sally has used SAS for epidemiology study support and analysis; applications development; and as a tool for management reporting and business tracking.

Andy Norton is Research and Development Strategist at Trilogy Consulting Corporation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Andy has used SAS as his primary programming language for seventeen years, including work on the Consumer Price Index while employed by ORI, Inc. in Washington, DC. As technical leader of Trilogy's Object Technology Group, his interests include object-oriented programming, Java, SQL, and multidimensional databases. ___________________________________________________________________

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