SAS does not have any sort of "free trial," but does have a reasonably affordable learning environement in the SAS On Demand for Professionals, http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2012/01/18/sasondemand-forpros/ . Since Jmp and Analytics hold data in memory, they are less suited to big data analysis than some of the other SAS products, such as http://www.sas.com/software/high-performance-analytics/index.html . Doc Muhlbaier Duke ... View more