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Business intelligence (BI) and advanced analytics software are the focus of much interest at the moment. Organisations in all business sectors are focusing renewed interest on corporate data and analysis as the crucial underpinning to accurate decision-making and strategy building. Data volumes meanwhile continue to increase at an alarming rate and users are getting more numerous and more sophisticated in their demands. For SAS professionals this presents the challenge to maintain the data and application integrity and to integrate into other software environments. Consequently, things have been moving fast at SAS, as we develop new software and solutions to help organisations meet their needs in BI and analytics.
SAS System 9 represents a major redesign of many of the core areas of the SAS System. It is one of the most significant releases we have launched during our 26-year history, and it's set to change the way many organisations integrate, distribute, analyse and use core corporate information and data. Of course your existing SAS data and programs will continue to work without modification - so you will able to take full advantage of the new features of SAS System 9 without complex migration work. For those of you staying with SAS 8.2 for a while longer - it will not disappear when we release SAS System 9 and there are still many benefits that come with it's latest features - which perhaps you haven't tried out yet. We will look at these in subsequent editions of In the Know. So how can SAS System 9 change the way you work and your organisation operates? Well, for a start it is much easier to use. We've designed SAS System 9 for information consumers, decision makers, business and financial analysts, and of course, programmers and systems managers. This will help you be more effective, and enable much wider use of SAS across your whole organisation. We've also made it even more open and modern. We've added new technology standards support, making it quicker and easier to work with all the different software in your organisation. This includes some of the latest Web Services, XML and Metadata standards - for the technically inclined amongst you. SAS System 9 is also the fastest and most powerful software we have ever developed. It can work on many different SAS jobs simultaneously, which makes it much easier for multiple users to share processing resources and data. This in turn will help you get better value from your existing computer systems, while at the same time producing better intelligence for the whole organisation. We're encouraging everyone to move up to the best version of SAS, during the next 12 months. So, make sure your company doesn't miss out on the latest intelligence! For further information on SAS System 9 visit http://support.sas.com/software/9/ Join us for the SAS System 9 launch at Seugi 21: http://support.sas.com/usergroups/seugi/seugi21/agenda.html
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