Sunz 2010 Keynote

SAS and Business

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SAS and Business Analytics Today and Tomorrow. A TechnicalPerspective SUNZ 2010, 16 February 2010

Bill Gibson, CTO, SAS ANZJames Foster, CTS, SAS ANZ

Introductions

� CTO

• Architecture Implementation

• Customer Support

� CTS

• Architecture Planning

• Interface with


• Customer Support

• Best Implementation Practices

Today

• Interface with Global Product Management

• Industry Trends

Tomorrow

Agenda

� SAS Product (9.2) Status Bill

• Technology

• Customer Adoption

• Business Issues being solved


• Business Issues being solved

� General Technology Trends James

� SAS Roadmap

SAS 9.2 Time Line


• Q1/2 SAS Platform General Availability- Reporting, OLAP, - Data Integration, - Advanced Analytics- Enhanced TeradataIntegration

• Q3 2009- Q2 2010

M2/3 Maintenance

Business Solutions

CI, RI, FI etc

• Q2 2008

SAS Foundation

Limited availability

SAS 9.2 Value Proposition

� Not just a “minor DOT” release. A major step forward in SAS technology

Delivers a great deal of customer requested

functionality


SAS 9.2

Productivity

Customer Driven

More IT Friendly

Delivers a giant

leap in

functionality to

aid productivity

of all using SAS

functionality

Delivers

enhancements to

reduce the cost for

IT and Business

units of managing

a SAS

Environment

SAS 9.2 Security, Manageability, Scalability, Usability

Deployment & Configuration

SecurityEnvironment Monitoring

Scalability Improvements


Electronic software delivery

Silent installation framework

Automatic configuration of SAS technologies and web

applications

Record and replay support for installations

AES Encryption Support

Local Authentication support for SAS Administrators

Single sign-on support: Integrated Windows

Authentication & Web Based (CA Siteminder /

IBM Tivoli Access Manager)

Visualize activity on servers

Modify server options and logging on the fly

Extensions for usage with 3rd party network monitoring systems

More multi-threaded SAS procedures

Enhanced grid enablement

Better use of OS and underlying HW

SAS 9.2

� Major update in Platform Support

• Operating Systems

• Java Application Servers

• 64 bit Windows


• 64 bit Windows

− Break the 2G ceiling

� New Baseline Architecture Level

• Minor releases are building on initial versions

SAS 9.2 Maintenance Strategy

� Maintenance Releases – “remastering of SAS”

• Delivers bug fixes, minor new features, support for new 3rd

party software levels

• All future installs automatically include maintenance


• All future installs automatically include maintenance

• Maintenance can be applied to existing installations

• Requires redeployment of Web Tier, refresh of clients

• M2 (October 2009)

• M3 ( Q2 2010)

• See http://support.sas.com/software/maintenance/index.html

• Hot Fixes specific to maintenance level, and normally only available at current level

9.2 Customer Adoption

� All new implementations based on 9.2 as available.

� Over 50 new 9.2 Implementations during 2009-10


10

• From single machines to multi-machine environments with separate Dev/Test /Prod

� Migration for metadata based implementations.

� Over 25 metadata based migrations

9.2 Migration Experiences

� Planning Important

• Especially if there are multiple levels: Dev/test/prod

� Automated migration tools extremely robust

• Very high level of compatibility


� 9.2 is delivering improved functionality & performance.

Migration Processes� Migration process consists of 4 main phases

� Assess the state of the current environment

� Identify what is “outside the SAS box”

� Determine the target architecture & hardware deployment

� Plan Migration approach, define roles, estimate resources


� Validate the new environment

� Resynchronize content

� Rollout SAS 9.2 access to end users

� Upgrade to SAS 9.2 using SASDW with either migration or promotion tools. Create and populate secondary environments

� Implement customizations, if needed

� Create software depot and plan file

� Backup the current environment

� Setup target environment

9.2 Migration Experiences

� Timeframe & Effort

• Simple can be around a week

• Generally 2-3 weeks

• Complex enterprise / shared environments can be staged over longer periods.


staged over longer periods.

− Amount of content, number of environments

− Validation effort

� Lessons

• As always a few gotchas, generally fixes or workarounds available, but need to allow for this in planning

• Users have to test, needs commitment to prevent upgrade dragging out. Need to clearly communicate die date for 9.1.3

Key 9.2 Technology Adoption Trends

� Large customers deploying SAS Grid Technology for increased scalability

� Real Time Decisioning Technologies


Grid Example

� Active/Passive Metadata


� 8 Grid Nodes with workload balanced across nodes

9.2 Business Adoption Trends

� 2009 saw numbers of strategic implementations at major customers across ANZ.

� Customer Analytics in Retail and Telecommunications


Telecommunications

� Risk Management in Banking

SAS Academic Program in NZ

� New License Structure

• facilitating more courses using SAS

� Student Placement Program


• Opportunity for summer work placements for students in your organisations

� Student Projects Program

• Opportunities for students to work on interesting projects that you can’t resource/justify.

SAS User Forums


12 August 2010

Speed of change

Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 Million


Radio: 38 YearsTelevision: 13 YearsInternet: 4 YearsFacebook: 2 YearsiPod: 3 Years

Explosion of data

It was estimated that 40 exabytes (4.0 x 1019) of unique information was created last year

That is more than the previous


Sources: http://my.gartner.com/it/content/1031300/1031312/july1_technology_trends_you_cant_afford_ignore.pdfhttp://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics 8 Feb 2009

That is more than the previous 5000 years combined

80% is unstructured

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2010Gartner

� Cloud Computing

� Advanced Analytics

� Client Computing

� IT for Green


� IT for Green

� Reshaping the Data Centre

� Social Computing

� Security – Activity Monitoring

� Flash Memory

� Virtualisation for Availability

� Mobile Applications

Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1210613

SAS Technology Directions

� Shared services and component re-use

� Improved interface standards (Flash/Flex)

� In-Database


� In-Database

� Grid

Next Generation BI Dashboard


What’s new or coming soon

� Maintenance 3 Release

• Deployment enhancements

• Broader platform support

• Partial promotion improvements


• Partial promotion improvements

� BI Client Release (4.3)

• Outlook Integration

• Significant dashboard improvements

• Enterprise Guide enhancements

� SAS Social Network (Influence) Analysis (SNA)

� Text Analytics

Enterprise Guide 4.3

� New program editor with auto complete and popup function help

� Code to flow capability

� Explicit SQL pass-through options


� Enhanced process flow (rearrange, panning tool, looping, etc.)

� Integration with SG Editor and SG Designer

� Improved integration with WRS and information maps

� Improved OLAP Analyser

SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3Syntax suggestions and completion


SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3Integrated syntax help


SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3SAS Code Analyser


Social Network Analysis


Text Analytics

Information Organization and

Access

Predictive Modeling,

Discover Trends and Patterns


Access

Content Categorization

Ontology Management

and Patterns

Text MiningSentiment Analysis

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