In this course, you will learn the basics of SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) architecture before beginning to manipulate data in CAS with SAS code. You will also learn the basics of using the SAS DATA step in the SAS Compute Server and Next, and the basics of CASL, the scripting language that enables you to process data in CAS. You will cover the differences between PROC SQL and FedSQL, discuss using the SAS DATA step in CAS, and then use CASL to do more complex data preprocessing tasks.