Ralf and Bart, I've spoken with my colleague Rick Styll. His revised Global Forum paper will have the content you're looking for. His paper currently posted in the proceedings has been revised and we're trying to see if there's a way to get it posted prior to the conference. If so, I'll let you know via this thread but worst-case is the information will be available shortly after Global Forum. Best, M. ... View more

Hi Bart, Good to hear from you! We met a couple of times at past SAS Global Forum events. I'm sorry you haven't been notified of any EBI server developments this year -- they are definitely out there. Probably the best place to start for a "one-stop shop" is the archive of Rick Styll's SAS Talks webinar: Overview - New Features for SAS Enterprise BI Server | SAS I don't know if you'll be attending SAS Global Forum in San Francisco this year, but there will be a number of EBI presentations and a panel discussion about EBI/VA. If you're not planning to attend the event, you should definitely check out the proceedings. As 9.4 begins to roll out later this year, you can expect to see more details. If you aren't already receving information about SAS Talks, please consider going to the main page SAS Talks and clicking "subscribe" in the upper right-hand corner. That will allow you to be aware of all thse technical webinar topics in advance. Cheers, Memsy ... View more

Hi Barry, Thanks for the follow-up question. I’ve been in touch with your SAS Account Team and they will be in contact shortly to discuss providing an EBI update (they explained the update will also be part of the output from the Analytics Workshop you and some other team members recently participated in). Regarding more general new feature/functionality information, as is the case with SAS releases, you (and any other community members reading this post) will be seeing the specifics on these for both EBI and VA rolling out over the next several months as we prepare for the launch of SAS 9.4. With the launch of SAS 9.4, there will be new releases of SAS Enterprise BI Server, SAS Visual Analytics and throughout the year ahead, new releases of other critical products and solutions that are part of our BI suite. Again, thanks for the follow up and I'll leave you in the capable hands of your local Account Team to provide further details. Best, Memsy ... View more

Barry, Thanks so much for posting. Visual Analytics is an exciting development for SAS and we're investing a lot of time and energy in this solution as well as with the customers who are using it. We also remain fully committed to our EBI portfolio. I want to allay any concern that WRS and BI Dashboard are about to “die a death.” In fact, at the upcoming SAS Global Forum conference, SAS teams will be busy giving papers, panels, and demos of all our activity across the BI suite of solutions (EBI, EG, AMO, VA, etc.). You can click on the SAS Global Forum Agenda Builder to see abstracts of the papers that will be available: http://support.sas.com/events/sasglobalforum/2013/pagenda.html You might also want to check out SAS Product Manager Rick Styll's archived SAS Talks webinar about the new features in the latest release of EBI (August 2012), version 4.3.1. If you’re not going to be attending Global Forum, all the papers will be available online after the event, and we’ve got ongoing plans to share more information, particularly as new releases of all of our BI products and solutions roll out. Memsy ... View more

Nick, Thanks for your post and for giving us a chance to respond to your concerns about SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence and Web Report Studio. I’ll start by saying it's important for you to know that we’re wholly committed to the future of our BI portfolio. Visual Analytics is a really exciting step for us; it 's also a complementary solution to our flagship EBI products, not a replacement. It does lots of great stuff and gives users new ways to look at enormous amounts of data. But EBI has great features, too, that aren’t currently available in Visual Analytics, like dashboards, OLAP etc. Many users, like you, have asked how Visual Analytics differs from existing solutions. These are the conversations we want to be having with users as we roll out any new features and / or entirely new products. You’ll be hearing more from SAS about our entire Business Intelligence portfolio in the coming weeks. I'm sure you're aware of many of the current resources out there regarding EBI, but I thought I’d include the links below just in case (and for the benefit of other users reading this post). -The Products and Solutions pages on support.sas.com. Not all SAS products are listed here, but many of them are and we’re adding new ones all the time. There are pages devoted to WRS and Visual Analytics, for example, and they include info on current releases plus training, books and other resources. -Our recent SAS Talks webinar presented by authors Angela Hall, Tricia Aanderud and SAS Training expert Eric Rossland about what’s new in BI (we got questions about the relationship between BI and Visual Analytics during the Q&A portion of this event). -Angela Hall’s blog,  “Real BI for SAS Users.” You can see in her April 30th post a list of pointers to information about some of the various mobile options available to SAS users, including BI, JMP, Visual Analytics and others. We are actively planning for enhancements to both EBI and WRS that will be released over the next 9-12 months. We'll post to this forum when the new features are available. Regards, Memsy ... View more