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Bahr
Calcite | Level 5

The institution where I work is going to discontinue SAS. SAS Viya is not an option because I have very large datasets that I continue to use, but infrequently, which would be very expensive. Does anyone know if there is some agency that someone can join, to have access to SAS 9.4 through them? Thanks.

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SASKiwi
PROC Star

There's SODA - SAS On-Demand for Academics. However I don't think that will handle very large datasets. I would be best to contact your nearest SAS office for further options.

Bahr
Calcite | Level 5
Thanks, I'll check that out.
Quentin
Super User

Just curious, are you talking about PC SAS (Display Manager), or SAS 9 on a server?


I would think (hope) for PC SAS, the academic pricing would be cheap enough for a University that they would keep it.  But I guess for a a server between the licensing costs and people to manage the server, the cost may be notice-able.

 

In any case, if you work as part of a group for an institution / team that has given up on SAS, you should probably think twice about whether you want to the only person left using SAS, and whether it's sustainable.

The Boston Area SAS Users Group (BASUG) is hosting our in person SAS Blowout on Oct 18!
This full-day event in Cambridge, Mass features four presenters from SAS, presenting on a range of SAS 9 programming topics. Pre-registration by Oct 15 is required.
Full details and registration info at https://www.basug.org/events.
Bahr
Calcite | Level 5
PC-SAS. I do use Mplus and other programs, but SAS is the only program I
know of that can do multi-nested full macros, which is very useful for
exploratory analyses.

Thanks.
ballardw
Super User

How large is "very large"?

 

 

 

 

Bahr
Calcite | Level 5
one project has a total of 17 GB of SAS datasets.
AhmedAl_Attar
Ammonite | Level 13

Hi@Bahr 

If you can prove you are a Student, then SAS® VIYA® FOR LEARNERS might be the rout you take

There is always SAS® OnDemand for Academics, but you are restricted to maximum of 5 GB of storage.

 

Hope this help

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