Posts Tagged ‘ SAS BI Clients 4.3 ’

I caught up with James Foster from SAS Australia last week and got a bit of an insight into where the SAS products are going in the next few months.

At the moment we are at SAS 9.2 M3 for the SAS Platform (eBI, eDI, EM etc).

Later this year (Mid Q3 ish?) a new set of the BI Clients will be released under the 4.3 banner (so Enterprise Guide 4.3, Web Report Studio 4.3 etc). These clients will bring massive enhancements to the BI client functionality.

Two that I have already mentioned are the enhancements Chris has outlined will be coming in Enterprise Guide 4.3 here and the new BI Dashboards James mentioned at SUNZ earlier this year.

To leverage this new functionality you will need to be on SAS 9.2 M3, then install the desktop/developments clients and/or redeploy the new Web App versions.

James also mentioned that SAS 9.3 is currently under development as the next major release and maybe be out sometime next year.

Its great to see we don’t have to wait another 5 years (aka SAS 9.1 –> SAS 9.2) before SAS delivers new capability. I think given the BI competitors SAS (aka Oracle, SAP) have in the market the speed of development is going to be key.

Bring it on!