I work for a small company that primarily uses access & excel for data needs and I just came from a company that had SAS. I've tried convincing my boss & his boss (SVP), that SAS would be extremely helpful in speeding up current processes and allow us to do much more high-level statistical analysis for our decision making. We have had the SAS reps out, but they fail to see the benefit of getting SAS right now. They see it as a fancy tool that we can get by without. The fact is that I know a project that just took approx 5 months to complete could have been done in under a month with SAS. It is a recurring project that I'll start again later this fall. Has anyone ever heard of SAS allowing someone to demo their product for a few months? Perhaps just at a reduced rate? My manager didn't believe me when I told him how much faster I could do the project, but I'm confident I could get all the code written and executed in a month. I'm after a PC SAS licence, with Base SAS and SAS stat. SAS Graph and SAS Access would be helpful as well, but I could do this project without them. If anyone who has heard of this being done or a SAS rep could respond, I'd much appreciate it.
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