Version 4.3 of SAS Data Integration Studio (DI Studio) is to be released alongside SAS 9.3 later this year. I stopped by the Data Integration booth at SAS Global Forum to get some detail from those that should know. There are a raft of enhancements tha…
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Update #2
Day 2 at SAS Global Forum (or is it day 3? I’m not sure) and my feet are aching due to the enormous amount of walking required. Yesterday I spent a lot of time in the Demo Area, talking to SAS developers about their work in the areas of DI, Mobile BI a…
Major Conference Merger
When we combine two powerhouse conferences to create the Analytics Conference Series, we think you’ll find the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts. Starting this year, SAS Education’s annual Business Forecasting Conference is joining f…
SAS 9.3 – Planned for release in Q3 2011
SAS Global Forum 2011 in Vegas seems to be all about SAS 9.3. Interesting for me as a number of customers in New Zealand are still on SAS 9.1 and yet to upgrade to SAS 9.2. The other thing that is interesting is that while SAS are talking about new SMC 9.3 capability (and in fact a […]
NOTE: Get a Clearer View of Your Security Metadata
The partners booths at SAS Global Forum rarely offer third-party SAS software products. The one perrenial exception is Futrix (offering self-service BI beyond SAS’s own capabilities), but this year sees an offering from Metacoda. It’s the Metacoda…
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Update
There’s a lot for the 3,000+ attendees of SAS Global Forum 2011 here in Las Vegas to see and do. The opening session and this morning’s Technology Connection session offered plenty of snippets of information. I’m now attending papers and cruising the d…