What if you could make your valuable and business-critical SAS Data Integration jobs work with Databricks in the cloud in a fraction of the time it would take to recode the jobs in another language or system? The following illustration shows instant modernization of SAS 9 data pipelines moved to SAS Viya in the cloud.   Figure 1: SAS 9 data pipelines moved to SAS Viya and instantly modernized.   Transferring SAS Data Integration Jobs to SAS Studio in SAS Viya in the cloud will not only significantly reduce migration time, but also expedite the availability of your data and logic in the cloud thanks to the built-in automatic migration support in SAS Viya. Moreover, this will allocate more time and resources to further development work that adds value to your business, such as AI modeling, enhancing data quality, and other analytical processes that SAS Viya excels at and accomplishes faster than alternative solutions. For more details, refer to this independent study conducted by Futurum Group.   Take advantage of SAS Viya’s built-in automatic migration tools Leveraging SAS Viya's built-in automatic migration of your trusted SAS Data Integration jobs will notably mitigate risks in the process, allowing you to maintain the logic that has already proven effective. SAS migration tools capitalize on a thorough comprehension of the disparities between SAS 9 and cloud-native SAS Viya. This enables productive maintenance and management of logic through transformation steps resembling those in SAS 9 Data Integration Studio. Figure 2:  SAS Data Integration Studio Jobs automatically migrated to a SAS Studio flows in SAS Viya     Below are some useful resources that show and explain aspects of the migration process: SAS Help Center: SAS Viya Platform: Content Migration from SAS 9.4 SAS Viya 2021.2 – Migrating SAS Data Integration (DI) Studio Jobs to SAS Studio Flows Content Assessment delivers utility applications to support SAS Viya Content Migration SAS Demo | SAS Viya Migration of SAS Data Integration Studio Jobs to SAS Studio Flows   Switch from SAS tables to Databricks tables and continue with low code development. Using SAS Viya's access engine with Databricks ensures efficient and readily available data. This engine translates transformation steps into Databricks-compatible SQL, streamlining integration. Flows can be optimized to run entirely within Databricks, reducing or eliminating data movement to SAS Viya. As illustrated below, you have an option to store intermediate tables in Databricks so that the entire flow runs in Databricks.     Figure 3: Configuring SAS Viya to store intermediate tables in Databricks, enhancing data storage and processing within the platform.   With SAS Viya you have the flexibility to store and access data where you want – locally in SAS Viya, other data sources like Parquet in cloud storage, Databricks or another data platform. See my colleague Cecily's blog for how easy it is to set this up:  SAS and Databricks: Your Practical Guide to Data Access and Analysis. Use the option that suits your use case the best.   And now that you have your data pipelines available in SAS Viya you can evolve this further by tapping into new capabilities available on SAS Viya; adding python code, optimized machine learning, entity resolution or any other AI or data functions you can imagine.    Migration from SAS 9 to SAS Viya is so much faster and simpler than rewriting to another language and technology. And you get to run the pipeline on Databricks with access to data in Databricks. As an additional benefit you get the power of a highly optimized cloud-native data and AI engine in SAS Viya to further evolve your analytical pipelines.   In summary, the fastest, most cost-effective, and safest way of moving your SAS 9.4 data pipelines to Databricks in the cloud is through SAS Viya in the cloud. You get to leverage your existing intellectual property from the logic you already invested in from your SAS 9.4 data pipelines while making data available in Databricks in the process. You also have the choice of the logic running on Databricks or on SAS Viya.   Learn more about SAS and Databricks Expand your SAS and Databricks knowledge further by exploring these blogs by my colleagues, and anticipate our upcoming blogs posted every Wednesday in SAS Communities. Harness the analytical power of your Databricks platform with SAS - SAS Support Communities Data everywhere and anyhow! Gain insights from across the clouds with SAS Elevated efficiency and reduced cost: SAS in the era of Cloud Adoption SAS and Databricks: Your Practical Guide to Data Access and Analysis     ... View more

Welcome to the Nordic FANS AML Network meeting   If you are a SAS user/customer working with AML, you are welcome to join us for this FANS Network meeting about AML (Anti-Money Laundering).   Date: 25/4-2024 Time: 9:00-12:15 CET (light breakfast from 8.30 and Lunch after the Network meeting) Type: Hybrid (only for SAS AML customers/prospects) Locations:        Microsoft Teams, SAS Institute, Havneholmen 8, 2450 København SV SAS Institute, Frederiks Plads 36 4., 8000 Aarhus C SAS Institute, Stora Frösunda Gård, 169 70 Solna Register: Denmark / Finland / Norway / Sweden The join link will be sent to you before the meeting.   Agenda  Breakfast (8.30-9.00 am)   Introduction (9.00-9.10 am)   SAS AML on Viya 4 (9.10-10.10 am) The new AML platform on Viya, the roadmap and benefits SAS Cloud platform: The business benefits for the Compliance area Network Break – 10 minutes   Financial Crime Analytics (FCA) on the Viya platform supporting AI (10.20-11.30 am) What is FCA? Which Use cases are we supporting Out-of-the-Box? What kind of IP is included Other Complex AML Use cases SAS can support Supporting the Data scientist: A demonstration of Model development using AI supported by model governance and model management   Network Break – 10 minutes   AI Use case incl. Network analytics and network generation – a demonstration of the SAS IP (11.40-12.05 pm)   Summary and Closing (12.05-12.15 pm)   Lunch (12.15-13.00)   If you have any questions, do not hesitate to give us a call or send us an email: Henrik Koch Fraud Practice Nordics T: +45 27 25 28 03 ... View more

SAS® VIYA alustan analytiikka ominaisuuksien yleinen esittely 1 tunnissa!   Päivä: 20.3.2024 Aika: 15:00 - 16:00 EET Missä: Teams Kenelle: Avoin tapahtuma, ei edellytä maksullista FANS jäsenyyttä   Agenda: Tilaisuudessa tutustutaan SAS VIYA alustaan analytiikan näkökulmasta. SAS® VIYA:ssa on monta työkalua erilaisiin tapoihin tehdä analytiikkaa, mm. SAS® Visual Analytics SAS® Visual Statistics SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning   Et tarvitse osaamista SASista tai analytiikasta saadaksesi käsityksen miltä analytiikan tekeminen uusimmilla välineillä näyttää!   Rekisteröidy täältä!   ... View more

Go all in on AI and analytics. And save big getting there.    We're calling SAS users like you to join us at SAS Innovate!  Register by Feb 2 to take advantage of the Super Early Bird rate of just $595 – or how you can get the FANS free tickets if you are a Nordic SAS user group member. We also offer group discounts.  At SAS Innovate, we're looking for the programmers, the administrators, the data analysts, and data scientists – the unsung hallway heroes who use SAS® day in and day out.  You won't find another event under one roof with the same caliber of hands-on workshops, super demos, technical deep dives, and certification opportunities.  Space is already starting to fill up for SAS Innovate, April 16-19, at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Make sure you're part of the can't-miss AI and analytics experience of 2024.   If you have any questions about Innovate, please get in touch with us by email.   Inspiration awaits: Meet our keynote speakers   Adam Grant   Organizational Psychologist and Bestselling Author     Cassie Kozyrkov   CEO, Data Scientific and Former Chief Decision Scientist, Google   ​Sean Evans   Host, Hot Ones, interviewing SAS CTO Bryan Harris        SAS USERS Build skills through hands-on workshops and technical deep dives. See how your peers are using SAS ® to solve the same challenges you face. Kick-start your career with new knowledge and certification opportunities. Network with other peers.   It’s all under one roof and all at SAS Innovate SAS Innovate is for you whether you're a team leader, data engineer, architect, or scientist.   REGISTER NOW! ... View more

Your SAS Viya administrator is tasked with setting up authentication and authorization mechanisms for you to access SAS. Whether that be Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML), Single Sign On (SSO), or through some other technology, once set up, you log into the SAS GUI, and voilà you're off and running in the SAS application.   But what if you want to expand your possibilities, and say, create test cases in Postman or a Jupyter Notebook. Or create an application on top of SAS Viya? Authentication and authorization in this case is done through the use of access tokens. In this Juletip, I'll outline the steps to generate the access token and provide links to other resources for more details. I'll keep this at a pretty high level to not get buried in the weeds.   The Technology Registering clients and generating access tokens follow the OpenID Connect (OIDC) and the User Account and Authentication server (UAA) industry standards (with some customizations specifically for SAS. I won't get into the details of OAuth 2.0, OIDC or UAA here. You can read more about them in @MikeRoda's SAS Global Forum paper OpenID Connect Opens the Door to SAS Viya APIs.   The Client First, since you'll be connecting to SAS Viya from the outside, you have to tell SAS who you are. This is done through the creation of a client id. This is a one-time administrative task. Once a client is registered it does not expire or time out. Authentication and authorization are controlled by the scopes and authorities parameters and grant types. SAS Viya supports multiple grant types. Here we'll focus on the user-based authorization code. To learn more about the other grant types, see my SAS User's blog post Authentication to SAS Viya: a couple of approaches.    The Access Token Once the client is registered, the admin would provide the client id to a developer. The developer uses the client id along with their user credentials to generate an authorization code. Next, the authorization code is used to generate an access (and refresh) token. The access token will expire after a specified time-to-live (TTL). You can use the refresh token to generate a new access token.   Once you have the access token, you pass this along with the REST call or when connecting to CAS and you're now connected to SAS Viya from an external client.   Additional Resources In addition to the links in the sections above, here are a few more resources of interest.   Scripts to register client and generate access tokens I've written an interactive Jupyter Notebook that walks you through the entire process described above. It is located on sassoftware GitHub. This repository also contains multiple common SAS Viya use cases, written in Postman, Python, and R.    The SAS Developers Community Have questions? Want more information? Visit the SAS Developers Community and see what's being talked about.   The SAS Developers Portal All API documentation, integration with open source, and building applications on top of SAS is located on the SAS Developers Portal, developer.sas.com. Please note that this site is being replaced with a new, updated version and will temporarily be found at developers.sas.com. We are targeting the end of the year to release the new site. The two sites will live side-by-side for a time.   ... View more