Any concrete steps taken to counter headwinds in recently concluded SAS Innovate?

[AnirbanJD1]

Hi Users and Members,

While the headwinds of Open source or open source driven technologies/cloud technologies pose a serious threat to the SAS technologies and expansion, I , being a senior practitioner in this domain, is severely concerned.  I have come across many posts related to SAS ETL conversion to Databricks/Python, SAS to Python , SAS to Cloud technologies and it is surprising to see Cloud vendor(s) , even with strategic alliances with SAS, are pitting their technologies against SAS. I have started going through the presentations/discussions related to the recently held SAS Innovate, but I would like to ask the larger audience( not only for SAS programming) that if concrete steps/roadmap is devised to counter the headwinds in the domains of Data integration/Data management and other areas?

[ChrisNZ]

Contract jobs for converting SAS and macro programs to SQL are becoming more common. I pity the poor soul who has to accept such a contract. It must not be a fun job rewriting tasks from a feature-rich language like to to SQL. Like trying to paint Mona Lisa with crayons. Though some have done a good job with the latter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgj40520PZY