SAS 9.2-EcHoS | 4.12Gb


For more than 30 years, organizations worldwide have turned to SAS to help them gain information and intelligence. Now, SAS 9.2 gives customers more power and flexibility than ever before. It provides the core components of the SAS Business Analytics Framework, enabling you to meet evolving business needs with a world-class array of technology and powerful analytics. This new release delivers the value you expect from SAS and helps you optimize and transform your organization.

SAS 9.2 brings a wealth of new capabilities and delivers a wide range of benefits for both business users and IT departments. It helps business users gain insights that are often hidden in data so they can reach evidence-based decisions with confidence. For IT, this release helps ease integration with existing IT infrastructures and helps IT deploy, manage and scale the SAS environment to efficiently meet organizational needs.
Benefits

* Address specific problems with greater precision and confidence.
* Improve productivity.
* Effectively manage the SAS environment to meet growing demand for intelligence.

Features
* Data integration enhancements
* Significant new analytic capabilities
* Reporting enhancements
* OLAP storage improvements
* More manageability for SAS processes and easier deployment

How SASВ® Is Different
* Collaborative data integration. Enhancements to SAS Data Integration help organizations seeking to efficiently wring more value from all their data sources and streamline the design process. Enhanced performance tuning and monitoring, alerts, easier debugging, automated recommendations and a more intuitive GUI are among the new capabilities that provide improved cross-enterprise collaboration, ease of use and increased processing speed.
* Advanced analytics. Customers can analyze and visualize data in more ways than ever with hundreds of enhancements to SAS Analytics products, including new algorithms, improved modeling capabilities, easy-to-use production quality graphics, enhanced data and process visualization, and the ability to process large, complex data sets faster. Advanced analytics allow organizations to predict future behavior and seize possibilities ahead of their competitors.
* Extended use of evidence-based decisions. Reporting enhancements expand information use to a wider community within an enterprise, promoting a culture of fact-based decision making. With new features such as Microsoft SharePoint integration, high- impact and engaging Adobe Flash-based interactivity and other user-centric capabilities, more valuable intelligence is available to users within familiar environments. This is achieved with less administration overhead and reduced reliance on IT or other support organizations.
* Enterprise-class software improvements for IT. To help IT handle growing demands and make the SAS environment easier to manage, SAS 9.2 brings important enhancements, such as a new wizard-based interface, to streamline the deployment and configuration process and comprehensive logging and monitoring capabilities. SAS 9.2 also takes advantage of standards for systems management, security and change management.

System Requirements
Please note that platforms and operating systems listed below are generally supported for SAS 9.2. Some products may be supported only on a subset of these systems. Please check respective product fact sheets or Web pages for more details.
Client environment
* Windows (x86-32): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista*

Server environment
* AIX: Version 5.3 and 6.1 on POWER architectures
* HP-UX PA-RISC: HP-UX 11iv2 (11.23), 11iv3 (11.31)
* HP-UX Itanium: HP-UX 11iv2 (11.23), 11iv3 (11.31)
* Linux for x86 (x86-32): RHEL 4 and 5, SuSE SLES 9 and 10
* Microsoft Windows (x86-32): Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista*
* Microsoft Windows on x64 (EM64T/AMD64): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows Server 2003 for x64
* Microsoft Windows (on Itanium): Windows Server 2003
* Solaris on SPARC: Version 8, 9, 10
* Solaris on x64: Version 10

* NOTE: Supported Windows Vista Editions are Enterprise, Business and Ultimate.
Supported Web browsers

* Internet Explorer 6 and 7 on Windows XP Pro
* Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista*
* Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista* and Linux x86

Midtier required/optional software

* SAS client and midtier require JRE 1.5

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