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SAS 9.3, Support Options & More. MONSUG User Group Meeting Nov. 15, 2011. Big Data, Big Analytics, Data Governance. SAS 9.3 - Data Management. Improved manageability of the Data Management environment Increased transparency into the Data Management environment
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SAS 9.3, Support Options & More MONSUG User Group Meeting Nov. 15, 2011
SAS 9.3 - Data Management • Improved manageability of the Data Management environment • Increased transparency into the Data Management environment • Better data governance & reduced risk associated with data • More trustworthy information & less time reconciling differences • Reporting on Batch Execution • Ability to capture and analyze information on deployed jobs such as: Steps, Warnings, Errors, & Job Statistics • Enhanced SAS Code Importer • Support for expansion of SAS macros, analyze only feature, ability to detect collisions plus improved logging & error checking • New Transformations • New Compare Tables transform compares two data sources & detect changes in data • Metadata and Manageability • Metadata Search tool • Column Metadata Standardization Wizard
SAS 9.3 – Analytics • Enables new business capabilities • Provides governance processes for model management • Brings industry best practices to the hands of the practitioners • SAS Enterprise Miner 7.1 • Survival data mining for time dependent outcomes • In-database expansions for statistical transformations and modelling • SAS Model Manager 3.1 • Model retraining in MM • Model management for additional types of models including R models • SAS Forecast Server 4.1 • Addition of custom time intervals • PROC HPFTEMPRECON for temporal reconciliation (“benchmarking”) of multiple time series
SAS 9.3 – Analytics • Continued investment in core analytical technologies • SAS/STAT 9.3 • Expanded capabilities for Bayesian analysis including the addition of a RANDOM statement and multivariate priors in MCMC • GRAPH license no longer required for ODS Graphics • SAS/ETS 9.3 • Automatic variable selection for COUNTREG procedure • SAS/OR 9.3 • Optimization • Improvements to nonlinear solvers & introduction of a multi-start method for nonlinear programming • Performance improvements for mixed integer programming solver • Simulation • Using data to drive models – empirical distributions, nonhomogeneousPoisson processes • Improved usability to simplify navigation of large models
SAS 9.3 – What about BASE SAS? • High Quality Graphics now included in BASE SAS: • ODS Statistical Graphics • The SG Family of Procedures • The GTL (Graphical Template Language) • The ODS Graphics Designer • The ODS Graphics Editor
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