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Opening Key Note - SAS and Business Analytics Today and Tomorrow. A Technical Perspective by Bill Gibson, Chief Technology Officer & James Foster, Chief Technology StrategistThis session will overview the current SAS 9.2 status, from the perspectives of technology, customer adoption, and business problems being addressed. We will then outline the trends we are seeing in technology, relevant to SAS users, and the SAS Roadmap to address these trends.TRANSCRIPT
SAS and Business
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SAS and Business Analytics Today and Tomorrow. A TechnicalPerspective SUNZ 2010, 16 February 2010
Bill Gibson, CTO, SAS ANZJames Foster, CTS, SAS ANZ
Introductions
� CTO
• Architecture Implementation
• Customer Support
� CTS
• Architecture Planning
• Interface with
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• Customer Support
• Best Implementation Practices
Today
• Interface with Global Product Management
• Industry Trends
Tomorrow
Agenda
� SAS Product (9.2) Status Bill
• Technology
• Customer Adoption
• Business Issues being solved
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• Business Issues being solved
� General Technology Trends James
� SAS Roadmap
SAS 9.2 Time Line
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• Q1/2 SAS Platform General Availability- Reporting, OLAP, - Data Integration, - Advanced Analytics- Enhanced TeradataIntegration
• Q3 2009- Q2 2010
M2/3 Maintenance
Business Solutions
CI, RI, FI etc
• Q2 2008
SAS Foundation
Limited availability
SAS 9.2 Value Proposition
� Not just a “minor DOT” release. A major step forward in SAS technology
Delivers a great deal of customer requested
functionality
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SAS 9.2
Productivity
Customer Driven
More IT Friendly
Delivers a giant
leap in
functionality to
aid productivity
of all using SAS
functionality
Delivers
enhancements to
reduce the cost for
IT and Business
units of managing
a SAS
Environment
SAS 9.2 Security, Manageability, Scalability, Usability
Deployment & Configuration
SecurityEnvironment Monitoring
Scalability Improvements
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Electronic software delivery
Silent installation framework
Automatic configuration of SAS technologies and web
applications
Record and replay support for installations
AES Encryption Support
Local Authentication support for SAS Administrators
Single sign-on support: Integrated Windows
Authentication & Web Based (CA Siteminder /
IBM Tivoli Access Manager)
Visualize activity on servers
Modify server options and logging on the fly
Extensions for usage with 3rd party network monitoring systems
More multi-threaded SAS procedures
Enhanced grid enablement
Better use of OS and underlying HW
SAS 9.2
� Major update in Platform Support
• Operating Systems
• Java Application Servers
• 64 bit Windows
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• 64 bit Windows
− Break the 2G ceiling
� New Baseline Architecture Level
• Minor releases are building on initial versions
SAS 9.2 Maintenance Strategy
� Maintenance Releases – “remastering of SAS”
• Delivers bug fixes, minor new features, support for new 3rd
party software levels
• All future installs automatically include maintenance
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• All future installs automatically include maintenance
• Maintenance can be applied to existing installations
• Requires redeployment of Web Tier, refresh of clients
• M2 (October 2009)
• M3 ( Q2 2010)
• See http://support.sas.com/software/maintenance/index.html
• Hot Fixes specific to maintenance level, and normally only available at current level
9.2 Customer Adoption
� All new implementations based on 9.2 as available.
� Over 50 new 9.2 Implementations during 2009-10
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• From single machines to multi-machine environments with separate Dev/Test /Prod
� Migration for metadata based implementations.
� Over 25 metadata based migrations
9.2 Migration Experiences
� Planning Important
• Especially if there are multiple levels: Dev/test/prod
� Automated migration tools extremely robust
• Very high level of compatibility
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� 9.2 is delivering improved functionality & performance.
Migration Processes� Migration process consists of 4 main phases
� Assess the state of the current environment
� Identify what is “outside the SAS box”
� Determine the target architecture & hardware deployment
� Plan Migration approach, define roles, estimate resources
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� Validate the new environment
� Resynchronize content
� Rollout SAS 9.2 access to end users
� Upgrade to SAS 9.2 using SASDW with either migration or promotion tools. Create and populate secondary environments
� Implement customizations, if needed
� Create software depot and plan file
� Backup the current environment
� Setup target environment
9.2 Migration Experiences
� Timeframe & Effort
• Simple can be around a week
• Generally 2-3 weeks
• Complex enterprise / shared environments can be staged over longer periods.
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staged over longer periods.
− Amount of content, number of environments
− Validation effort
� Lessons
• As always a few gotchas, generally fixes or workarounds available, but need to allow for this in planning
• Users have to test, needs commitment to prevent upgrade dragging out. Need to clearly communicate die date for 9.1.3
Key 9.2 Technology Adoption Trends
� Large customers deploying SAS Grid Technology for increased scalability
� Real Time Decisioning Technologies
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Grid Example
� Active/Passive Metadata
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� 8 Grid Nodes with workload balanced across nodes
9.2 Business Adoption Trends
� 2009 saw numbers of strategic implementations at major customers across ANZ.
� Customer Analytics in Retail and Telecommunications
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Telecommunications
� Risk Management in Banking
SAS Academic Program in NZ
� New License Structure
• facilitating more courses using SAS
� Student Placement Program
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• Opportunity for summer work placements for students in your organisations
� Student Projects Program
• Opportunities for students to work on interesting projects that you can’t resource/justify.
SAS User Forums
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12 August 2010
Speed of change
Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 Million
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Radio: 38 YearsTelevision: 13 YearsInternet: 4 YearsFacebook: 2 YearsiPod: 3 Years
Explosion of data
It was estimated that 40 exabytes (4.0 x 1019) of unique information was created last year
That is more than the previous
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Sources: http://my.gartner.com/it/content/1031300/1031312/july1_technology_trends_you_cant_afford_ignore.pdfhttp://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics 8 Feb 2009
That is more than the previous 5000 years combined
80% is unstructured
Top 10 Technology Trends for 2010Gartner
� Cloud Computing
� Advanced Analytics
� Client Computing
� IT for Green
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� IT for Green
� Reshaping the Data Centre
� Social Computing
� Security – Activity Monitoring
� Flash Memory
� Virtualisation for Availability
� Mobile Applications
Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1210613
SAS Technology Directions
� Shared services and component re-use
� Improved interface standards (Flash/Flex)
� In-Database
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� In-Database
� Grid
Next Generation BI Dashboard
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What’s new or coming soon
� Maintenance 3 Release
• Deployment enhancements
• Broader platform support
• Partial promotion improvements
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• Partial promotion improvements
� BI Client Release (4.3)
• Outlook Integration
• Significant dashboard improvements
• Enterprise Guide enhancements
� SAS Social Network (Influence) Analysis (SNA)
� Text Analytics
Enterprise Guide 4.3
� New program editor with auto complete and popup function help
� Code to flow capability
� Explicit SQL pass-through options
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� Enhanced process flow (rearrange, panning tool, looping, etc.)
� Integration with SG Editor and SG Designer
� Improved integration with WRS and information maps
� Improved OLAP Analyser
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3Syntax suggestions and completion
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SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3Integrated syntax help
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SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3SAS Code Analyser
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Social Network Analysis
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Text Analytics
Information Organization and
Access
Predictive Modeling,
Discover Trends and Patterns
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Access
Content Categorization
Ontology Management
and Patterns
Text MiningSentiment Analysis
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