Hello Jaap and jasmeetsasan2012, I wanted to provide you with some details regarding SAS OnDemand for Academics that may assist you with some of the issues and questions that you have had with regards to this product. We appreciate feedback and it will be used as we plan for upcoming releases. First, the offering is designed with an Instructor/Student paradigm right now. Instructors have the ability to upload their own data that students can then access with the appropriate course LIBNAME or FILENAME statement. Since it’s for teaching purposes, the instructor can help by uploading data that he or she thinks that the students might need for their course. The instructor can upload many data sets or files and then provide the course LIBNAME or FILENAME to students so that the instructor wouldn’t have to be involved for every data file that a student wanted to use. This can be done for EG, EM , and SAS Web Editor. Second, users can currently use SAS Web Editor (soon to be renamed as SAS Studio with update in July) and upload local data for use within that offering (there is still a 2GB limit). Third, if a current user is using EG, they can upload data from their local machine for the current session. If they modify that data during the session, they can download it locally before the session ends. They can refer to the ‘Student’ guide available from http://support.sas.com/ondemand/ for details. Fourth, in May SAS will launch a new free version called SAS University Edition that will enable users to access and use their local data. Details can be found at the following site, which offers information and resources for professors and students (soon to include a researcher section). https://communities.sas.com/community/sas-analytics-u Further details about the new SAS University Edition will be available on this site as the release date approaches. I do hope this is helpful information. Nancy Call SAS ... View more