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With the release of SAS 9.4 (which included SAS/STAT 12.3 and SAS Enterprise Guide 6.1), you might seriously consider hiring a Chief Versions Officer (CVO).
Fortunately, most of the recent versions of SAS Enterprise Guide work with the different recent versions of SAS, so you have some flexibility as you decide which applications to update and when. If you want the newest features of SAS Enterprise Guide but can’t yet adopt SAS 9.4, no problem. And if you want the benefits of SAS 9.4 but can’t yet roll out SAS Enterprise Guide 6.1 to your desktops, that’s okay too.
This table contains a simple mapping of what’s officially supported:
| SAS Enterprise Guide version | works with SAS versions |
| 4.2 | 9.2 |
| 4.3 | 9.2, 9.3, 9.4* |
| 5.1 | 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 |
| 6.1 | 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 |
| This same matrix applies to the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. | |
| For best results, apply all recent hotfixes to older versions of SAS Enterprise Guide before working with new versions of SAS. | |
| * SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 and SAS 9.4 do work together, but we really recommend at least v5.1. | |
For a historical perspective of SAS versions, check out Rick’s post about the release dates for SAS software. Believe it or not, the very first version of SAS Enterprise Guide (v1.0) shipped around the same time as SAS version 8.0 in 1999. If you tell me that you are still running that version, I would be both proud (since I helped to build it) and horrified (because it’s so much better now!).
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