July 2004 saw the publication of the User Guide for our ever popular tool - Log Filter

In May 2004, Andrew Ratcliffe (our Managing Director) presented "V is for Validation" at the VIEWS 2004 conference in London. The slides from this paper are available from our Resources section

Richard Philips (UK) won our second prize crossword in February 2004. His prize was a one year ASAP licence

Issue 14 of NOTE: was published in March 2004 and included our 2nd prize crossword competition

Eric Yount (US) won our first prize crossword in October 2003. His prize was a one year ASAP licence

Issue 13 of NOTE: was published in October 2003 and included a prize crossword competition

August 2003 saw publication of issue 12 of NOTE:

We added the beginnings of our Crosswords section in August 2003

Issue 11 of NOTE: was published in January 2003. NOTE: is RTSL's irregularly published email newsletter containing hints, tips, and experience for SAS practitioners. The archive of back issues is available for browsing

Iteration in Denmark became resellers for both ASAP and Axom in September 2002

September 2002. Internext's Onyx product is renamed as Axom as version 1.3 is released

Softscape Solutions in Australia became ASAP resellers in August 2002

In July 2002 we published issue 10 of NOTE:

RTSL became European distributors for Internext's Onyx product in May 2002

May 2002 saw publication of issue 9 of NOTE:

April 2002 saw Timberlake and Sigma Plus added to our growing list of ASAP resellers. These new additions bring coverage of Italy, France, and French-speaking parts of Belgium and Switzerland

In March 2002, we welcomed Amadeus and PW Consulting as ASAP resellers. These new partners are handling sales in the UK and the Benelux region (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg)

In February 2002, Statcon were announced as our first ASAP resellers. Statcon are covering Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Issue 8 of NOTE: was published in December 2001

In October 2001, RTSL once again contributed technical material to SAS Institute's email technology report. SAS Technology Report

October 2001 saw publication of issue 7 of NOTE:

In September 2001, at the conference of the UK SAS user group (VIEWS), Ratcliffe Technical Services Ltd. (RTSL) and complementSoft LLC announced a marketing partnership whereby RTSL will market the innovative ASAP product in the UK and Europe. Read more...

At the end of August 2001, Andrew Ratcliffe attended two SAS user group events in the USA. At the invitation of the organisers he presented two papers at each - both are in the Resources section of this web site

Issue 5 of NOTE: was published in June 2001, and issue 6 followed in July

In May 2001, issue 4 of NOTE: was published

April 2001 saw the publication of issue 3 of NOTE:

Issue 2 of of NOTE: was published in March 2001

In February 2001, we launched our free email newsletter. Named NOTE:, it promised to offer hints, tips, and experience for SAS practitioners

In November 2000, RTSL were asked to provide a series of technical tips for SAS Institute's email newsletter. V8 Tips from the UK, SAS Technical Bulletin

RTSL Managing Director Andrew Ratcliffe edited the hints and tips newsletter of the UK SAS user group for many years. In that time, RTSL contributed a lot of material. VIEWS News