SAS had the perfect ingredients to dominate the no-code/low-code wave: SAS Enterprise Guide (drag-and-drop before it was cool) SAS Flow Modeling (a decade before KNIME became mainstream) SAS Studio (web-based interface) Visual Analytics (one-click dashboards & exploration) Yet all of it stayed locked behind: heavy client/server deployments metadata servers mid-tier layers expensive licensing impossible home setup Imagine a $15/mo SaaS SAS Studio: runs locally or in cloud drag-and-drop modeling runs SAS + Python seamlessly KNIME-like extensibility Visual Analytics lite community packages & marketplace This was obvious. They had the tech years before competitors. They could have owned the no-code data science market they actually invented. But instead… Alteryx, KNIME, Power BI, Dataiku, RapidMiner, Databricks notebooks, and even Excel absorbed SAS’s youth.
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