SAS Studio vs PC SAS

[operakala]

What are the main differences between SAS Studio and the PC SAS application (other than one is in a web browser and one is an installed application) ? Are there any pros/cons to using SAS Studio instead of the installed application? Would a user that has only used PC SAS have any difficulties moving to SAS Studio? the context of this question is not allowing PC SAS users to tunnel into a server to use SAS and instead requiring them to use SAS Studio on the server.

[PaigeMiller]

Taken word-for-word from a 5 year old reddit post. https://www.reddit.com/r/sas/comments/83993c/sas_studio_vs_pc_sas/

[Reeza]

Desktop allows SAS to interact with local applications and files. A user can access (good) and save data (bad usually) locally on their computer including the C drive. This can be a security issue but can also be really great for interacting with VBS or PowerShell to automate filling out Excel files or creating reports. 

Files must be on the server or you need to set up a shared site between each user and the server. Using EG to manually move files is painful, I don't recommend it for power users, you need a method to have files shared. 

Servers are more powerful than desktop, though you can rsubmit to a server as well and use PC SAS to connect to a server installation as well. I believe the local/PC SAS method of working is going away generally though with cloud usage. 

Server SAS is equivalent to using a cloud tool versus a local tool in terms of the user point of view. 

[ballardw]

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@Reeza wrote:

Servers are more powerful than desktop, though you can rsubmit to a server as well and use PC SAS to connect to a server installation as well. I believe the local/PC SAS method of working is going away generally though with cloud usage. 

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With  the number of connection drops I've had this morning I'm not sure I can agree with the "more powerful" and my organization's IT department refuses to deal with any aspect of installing or maintaining SAS (probably because the licensing is from multiple funding streams and doesn't match the IT management model). So local  SAS it is (at least until I retire).

[Reeza]

Yup, with cloud/server you're at the mercy of your network connection!