SAS 9.4 Language Reference, 6th Edition

Chapter 18

Introduction to SAS Cloud

Analytic Services

What is SAS Cloud Analytic Services? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

What Does This Mean for the SAS 9 Programmer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

What is SAS Cloud Analytic Services?

SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) is a server that provides the cloud-based run-time

environment for data management and analytics with SAS. CAS is part of the SAS Viya

platform, an open, cloud-enabled platform that supports high-performance analytics. A

SAS Viya license is required for access to SAS Cloud Analytic Services.

“What Does This Mean for the SAS 9 Programmer? ”

What Does This Mean for the SAS 9 Programmer?

• When you license SAS Viya, you can write programs in SAS 9.4 in your SAS 9.4

environment and submit them to CAS for processing. This means faster processing

and faster results.

• New and existing SAS 9.4 programs can be submitted to CAS from the SAS

Windowing environment (SAS Display Manager) or from SAS Studio.

• SAS Viya is not a replacement for SAS 9.4. It is a platform designed to work with

SAS 9.4 and other languages such as Java, Python, Lua, and R.

• For more information about using the SAS language to access SAS Cloud Analytic

Services, see, Chapter 19, “SAS Language Support for CAS,” on page 405.

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