WHAT’S NEW IN
SAS 9.4 AGENDA
• SAS 9.4 – New Horizons
• Upgrading – The Journey Ahead
Target release date
Mid 2013
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understanding of SAS’ current product development plans and is
subject to change at any time in SAS’ sole discretion. SAS bears no
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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
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
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
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