what is difference between SAS studio and SAS university edition?

[GeorgeSAS]

Hello everyone,

I am confuse about the differences between SAS studio and SAS university edition. they are all web-based SAS.and SAS university edition including sas studio and jupyter lab.

Could you tell me their relation-ship or what are the differences?

Thank you!

[Reeza]

SAS Studio is a thin client used to connect to SAS. SAS University Edition is one version of SAS Studio that is installed on a users computer. You can also get SAS studio where it connects to a custom installation (ie your companies) or to a SAS cloud server, such as Academics on Demand.

[GeorgeSAS]

Thank you!

Is jupyterlab an installation option when install sas studio?

Thanks!

[Reeza]

It comes with SAS University Edition. When it launches the first window that comes up says use SAS Studio or launch Jupyter, just underneath.

JupyterLab is a free open source application that you can install. SAS has a kernel that works with it, and there are instructions on the SAS GitHub page about how to get it working with a custom installation. I did get it working on my computer for a while and then we got new machines and I haven't updated it yet. 

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@GeorgeSAS wrote:
Thank you!

Is jupyterlab an installation option when install sas studio?

Thanks!

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[GeorgeSAS]

While in my company's computer, SAS studio was installed but without jupyterlab there.

[Reeza]

Yes, JupyterLab is a separate product, not part of SAS:

Jupyter Lab

https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab

Instructions to set it up on your machine - this may be outdated but hopefully gets you started

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Installing-SASpy-Kernel-on-Jupyter-Notebooks/...

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@GeorgeSAS wrote:

While in my company's computer, SAS studio was installed but without jupyterlab there.

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[sastpw · Accepted solution]

Yes, as others have replied, SAS Studio is one of a number of SAS products. It is a web based UI for the SAS system (the rest of SAS products that provide functionality), that your company has licensed from SAS. SAS Studio connects to your SAS installation, and you can then, in a web browser, submit SAS programs to execute on your SAS servers (local or remote).

Univerisity Edition is a VM that SAS provides, free of charge, which contains some SAS products; enough for you to use to explore SAS functionality and learn SAS. It contains SAS Studio as the interface to submit your SAS programs to the included SAS software (which you didn't have to license).

Jupyter is a separate, free, open source web based 'Notebook format' UI. It has nothing to do w/ SAS outright. But, SAS also happens to have some (also free) open source projects that can run within Jupyter. So, We included Jupyter in the University Edition VM so that users using this VM could also try those out. We needed to include it in the VM because you (users) can't install or modify the contents of that VM. So it's already packaged in there so you can try it - otherwise, you couldn't connect it to the SAS that's in UE..

For your real SAS installations at you site, you can install Jupyter, and our saspy, SAS-kernel, Python-swat ... (see https://github.com/sassoftware) on your computers and use those to connect to your existing SAS installs, just like SAS Studio does on your site.

Hope that makes it more clear!

Tom