Welcome to the World SAS 9.4!

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Author: Tricia Aanderud

I’m excited that SAS 9.4 and Visual Analytics 6.2 has arrived. Last night at the SAS Campus, I attended a Welcome to the World party at the SAS Campus. (Check all the photos at my BI Notes flickr photo stream). The staff was really excited about the release. Everyone loves to talk about how to do statistics better at SAS. It’s a geek paradise. One employee I spoke to discussed some research he was doing to help cancer researchers be able to do analysis quicker. Many times the data needed to do research is not clean and the researchers spend 80% of their time cleaning and preparing data as opposed to figuring out why someone gets cancer. Probably this is not a surprise to anyone reading this blog, I know I have spend hours getting data ready for a chart that took about 5 minutes to build and analyze.

Dr. Goodnight and Keith Collins congratulated the staff on the new release and noted that it appeared to be more of a joint effort. I think some of the past releases may have appeared that several pieces were crammed in a box and shipped – while the purpose behind this release was for everything to have a more seamless appearance. It’s a very positive environment at SAS. Of course everyone is happy when a new release is ready.

SAS 9.4 Features

You can check the feature list yourself but I was told that this release will really appeal to the SAS Administrators.

Here’s some links I have found for you to review. I keep checking the SAS Support site to see a list of all features but it may be a few days before everything is ready.

So tell me – is there a feature that you are especially excited to check?

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