WHAT’S NEW IN

SAS 9.4 AGENDA

• SAS 9.4 – New Horizons

• Upgrading – The Journey Ahead

Target release date

Mid 2013

Disclaimer: The following information is shared to provide an

understanding of SAS’ current product development plans and is

subject to change at any time in SAS’ sole discretion. SAS bears no

responsibility for your reliance on this information.

NEW HORIZONS

SAS 9.4

NEW HORIZONS SAS 9.4

• Trends and Drivers

• Overview of Cloud Computing

• Release Objectives of SAS 9.4

• SAS’ Cloud Initiative

• SAS 9.4 Enhancements

• BASE SAS improvements

TRENDS & DRIVERS

SAS 9.4

TRENDS & DRIVERS

Customers are looking for:

• Lower overall cost (Software + hardware + support)

• Improved “time-to-value”

Resulting in:

• Moving to commodity hardware

• Moving to virtualization

• Renewed emphasis on applications

• “App-Stores”

• Software-as-a-Service

• Moving to Cloud Computing

OVERVIEW OF CLOUD COMPUTING

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (US)

Cloud Computing Standards

CHARACTERISTICS SERVICE MODELS DEPLOYMENT

MODELS

• On-Demand Self Service

• Broad Network Access

• Measured Service

• Resource Pooling

• Rapid Elasticity

• Software as a Service

(SaaS)

• Platform as a Service

(PaaS)

• Infrastructure as a Service

(IaaS)

• Private Cloud

• Public Cloud

• Hybrid Cloud

• Community Cloud

RELEASE OBJECTIVES OF SAS 9.4

Enhance the Business Analytics Framework to be

‘cloud ready’ • Software as a Service – enhanced support

• Platform as a Service – SAS Developer Enablement

Key Requirement Areas • Private, Public, Hybrid Cloud Support

• SAS Software Development Kit & API Strategy

• Updated mid-tier architecture

CLOUD ENABLED PLATFORM PLATFORM RELEASE

OBJECTIVES

CONTINUED ENHANCEMENT OF THE

SAS 9 ARCHITECTURE

PLATFORM RELEASE

OBJECTIVES

• Embedded web application support

• Enhanced Monitoring, Management Control

• Increased Availability

• Unified Administrative Approach

• Enhanced Authorization Model

• Strong virtualization support

SAS’ CLOUD INITIATIVE

SAS 9.4

PRIVATE

CLOUD

ENABLE SIMPLIFY

INNOVATE

PUBLIC

CLOUD

SAS 9.4

ENABLE ENABLE YOUR ORGANIZATION TO

USE SAS IN THE CLOUD

• Enable SAS to be deployed as portable containers within cloud environments

• Enable SAS deployment to private and public clouds

• VMware

• Amazon

• Reduce costs through use of cloud infrastructure

SAS CLOUD

STRATEGY THE PATH FORWARD ….

• Infrastructure Enhancements

• Flexible deployment options

• Leveraging virtualization

• Developer enablement

SAS 9.4 ENHANCEMENTS

SAS 9.4

Business Users

• Reduced time to value

• Higher availability and resiliency

• Expanded access

SAS Administrators

• Reduced dependency on IT

• Single admin console

• Monitoring and control

IT

• Higher level of IT compliance

• Simplified deployment

• Deliver high availability SAS analytics

SAS Programmers

• Standardized, service-based interfaces

• Open standards support and integration

• DS2 – New programming language

SAS 9.4 – SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

SAS 9.4 ENHANCEMENTS

Optimized SAS Mid-Tier • Embedded Web Application Server/ Web Server

• Service Registry Improvements

Infrastructure updates • Availability/Clustering across tiers

• Content Management and Services

• Enhanced Backup and recovery capabilities

SAS 9.4 ENHANCEMENTS

Admin and Management Improvements • Moving to Single Administrative Framework

• Integrated Monitoring and Management

• Single plug-in architecture

Information Security • Expanded Integration and Support

• Common Authorization Service

• Lockdown SAS

• Improved logging

BASE SAS 9.4 ENHANCEMENTS

SAS 9.4

SAS 9.4 BASE SAS ENHANCEMENTS

SAS Output Delivery System • Improved ODS PRINTER default style

• Layout for Pixel perfect report generation

• PowerPoint destination

SAS 9.4 BASE SAS ENHANCEMENTS

SAS DS2 • New SAS proprietary programming language

• Appropriate for both advanced data manipulation and data modelling

applications.

• Facilitates parallelised, in-memory & in-database analytics

SAS Web Editor • Run SAS from a browser

• Consistent across platforms

THE JOURNEY AHEAD

UPGRADING

THE JOURNEY

AHEAD UPGRADING

• Feasibility Assessment and Impact Analysis

• Building a Business Case

• Planning and Preparation are Critical

FEASIBILITY

ASSESSMENT AND

IMPACT ANALYSIS

UNDERSTANDING THE RELEASE CYCLE

SAS Platform Releases (9.2 9.3 9.4)

• Foundation for all other products

• New Release every 2-3 years

• Upgrade cannot be done in place

• Minor maintenance ships every 6-9 months until new major release, in-place upgrade

Product Releases

• Usually specific to Platform

• Release more frequently

• Upgrade in-place inside platform release

• Release specific hot fixes

• Product Upgrades

• Upward compatibility is a key design objective – programs and “objects” will run in new

release (once migrated)

• New clients required for new server versions

FEASIBILITY

ASSESSMENT AND

IMPACT ANALYSIS

UNDERSTAND THE GAPS AND DRIVERS

• What is currently deployed at your site (platform and product versions)

• Support implications of deployed release

• Functionality gap

• Suitability of current hardware / Operating System

• Is the performance unacceptable

• Your organizations virtualization / Cloud strategy

Support level A for current and immediately prior release

Support Level B for prior Release

Support Level C for all earlier releases

FEASIBILITY

ASSESSMENT AND

IMPACT ANALYSIS

MOTIVATION FOR MOVING FROM SAS 9.1.3

• Support status dropped to Level B on 31 Dec 2011

• 9.1 was released in 2003, 9.1.3 in 2004.

• Major Improvements since then enabling much greater reliability, &

productivity

• 9.1.3 Clients do NOT support Windows 7

• Migration directly to SAS 9.4 NOT supported (2 step process).

BUILDING YOUR

BUSINESS CASE PROJECT AND FUNDING APPROVAL

Identifying and quantifying costs • Infrastructure (on-premises or cloud)

• Professional Services

• Employee Effort and Training

• Software for Upgrade

• Additional Software

Identifying ROI • Reducing TCO

• Creating value

SOPHISTICATION TEMPORALITY POTENTIAL

DRIVING IMPROVED OUTCOMES IDENTIFYING VALUE

DRIVING IMPROVED OUTCOMES

STUBBS • DRIVING VALUE FROM THE TWIN VALUE CHAINS

Information

Insight

EFFICACY

Action

Integration

Governance

EFFICIENCY

Assets

EXTERNAL VALUE

• Value-creating initiative

• Economic returns

• Drives growth

INTERNAL VALUE

• Enabling initiative

• Productivity returns

• Drives scale

PLANNING AND

PREPARATION MIGRATION PATHS FOR SAS PLATFORM

Choose from the following approaches:

• SMU: Migrate content using the

automated migration tools

as a part of the install process.

• Promotion: Install a new SAS 9.4 environment and

promote selected content from 9.2 or 9.3

You can use a combination

of these approaches.

Migrating details vary based on the level of the source systems.

PLANNING &

PREPARATION SO, HOW LONG WILL A MIGRATION TAKE?

The actual execution of the migration is not the main portion of time.

• Time depends on

• Current release deployed at your site

• Environment complexity and cleanliness.

• Quality of planning & preparation

• Resources devoted to migration

• Commitment

Timeline

Planning Preparation Implementation Validation/Rollout 30% 20% 15% 35%

SUMMARY:

MIGRATING TO 9.4

• Migrating Foundation SAS very straightforward

• Both Migration and Promotion Approaches support these source versions

9.2 to 9.4

9.3 to 9.4

• Migration process is the same as it was 9.2 to 9.3

• Planning, preparation and commitment are critical.

• You will only do this once, so we recommend working with SAS professional

services who do it often

WHAT’S NEW IN

SAS 9.4 IN SUMMARY

• Trends -Cost reduction and time to value

• SAS embraces Cloud strategy

• SAS 9.4 designed around cloud enablement

• On-premises deployments remain in focus

• Migration from 9.2 & 9.3

• Start your thinking about implications for your site now

THANK YOU

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