Academic Computing Services

UCSD SAS Agreement Information

SAS Order Form

SAS is a data management, analysis and presentation package available in our Education Analytical Software (EAS) bundle. SAS is licensed under an agreement between UCOP and SAS. UCSD is a participant in that contract.

Costs:

ACS charges a fee of $20 on each SAS transaction above any license fees. Doing multiple installations at the same time will save you money. All copies installed must comply with the restrictions on use and distribution below.

Each EAS license for desktop computers is $60 per year. Desktop computers are single user Windows, Linux or Macintosh computers with one or two processors.

Each EAS license for servers is $750 per CPU per year. Servers are multiple CPU and/or multiple user computers.

Mainframe computers are not covered in this agreement.

Students:

ACS Software distribution does not distribute this software to students, but departments may do so. All copies installed MUST comply with the restrictions on use and distribution. There is also a time limited (expires in 2008) version of SAS available with limitations on complexity, that may be useful for students or others wishing to learn SAS.

SAS Learning Edition 2.0
List Price: $125.00
(Version 8.2)
ISBN: 1-59047-460-0

Installation and Renewal:

Software installation kits are available for checkout for up to ONE week at a time. Software is also available for download as disk ISO images, or for over the network install.

A license key, called a SID or setinit, must be applied each year. Use of an expired license is a violation of the license agreement. The SID or setinit typically allows for a short grace period after renewal. New installations can not generally be done after the setinit expiration date of July 1.

Products:

Release 9.1x is the current "production" windows release version of SAS, but older versions, such as 8.2 and 6.12, may be available on specific platforms.

The following product licenses are available in the EAS bundle:

Base/SAS, SAS/Access for some operating systems are included (others, typically used with ERP systems, require a separate license), SAS/AF, SAS/ASSIST, SAS/CONNECT, SAS/EIS, SAS/ETS, SAS/FSP, SAS Bridge to ESRI, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/IML, SAS/INSIGHT, SAS/LAB, SAS/OR, SAS/QC, SAS/SECURE, SAS/SHARE, SAS/SPECTRAVIEW, SAS/STAT, ONLINE/docs and SAS/Enterprise Guide.

You can find detailed information about these products as well as other SAS products and solutions at http://www.sas.com/products/ and a brief description of each is at the bottom of this page.

Documentation is not provided with SAS licenses but may be purchased separately from SAS, Inc. We do not make custom copies, or deliver. We can purchase a copy of the media for your use at an additional cost.

Ordering:

SAS Order Form

You will be notified when the software installation kit is ready to pick up.

Legal Details:

This software is the copyrighted property of SAS Institute Inc., and contains trade secrets of SAS Institute Inc. All title to the software remains with SAS Institute Inc. at all times.

NOTE that the first time that you license SAS software we MUST have a physical signature on a SAS license agreement, and proof of university affiliation for each user. Renewals can be done from a @ucsd.edu email address with that email being used as an electronic signature for the renewal.

Participants use the software for academic studies and/or research purposes only, and shall not use the software for any commercial or profit making purposes, or personal financial gain. If the license is discontinued, the user must destroy any copies of the software or be subject to disciplinary or legal action by UCSD and SAS Institute Inc.

Support:

Academic Computing Services provides limited technical support for SAS, mostly related to installation issues.

The SAS support web site at http://support.sas.com/index.html includes their knowledgebase.

Basic Version 8 documentation is on the SAS site for browsing. UCSD campus network SAS users can download a copy for their use from ftp://acsftp.ucsd.edu/SAS-Docs/.  This is a large download of 39,000+ files and 555 MB, not suitable for modem download.

There is a SAS Technical Support Hot Fix Web site at: http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/hotfix.html We suggest you visit the hotfixes page after installing or relicensing SAS.

There is a public mailing list at SAS that will email the availability of hotfixes as they come out. To subscribe, send mail to:

LISTSERV@VM.SAS.COM
with
subscribe tsnews-l anonymous
or
subscribe tsnews-l Your Name Here
as the only text in the body of the message.

This software can be installed on desktop computers by ACS Desktop Support. There is no transaction fee if the software is installed on a normal (billed) support call. Contact ACS Desktop Support at campus extension 20047 or email desktop@ucsd.edu

Here are some brief descriptions of the SAS products above:

Base - Foundation of the SAS system, giving users the ability to perform the common data driven tasks of data access, management, analysis, and presentation.

SAS/Access - the SAS/ACCESS interfaces are the foundation for our data access solution. These interfaces enable your SAS solutions to read, write, and update data regardless of its native database or platform. A list of Access engines that are included with the EAS are listed below:

Access to relational databases

Access to non-relational databases and other data sources

SAS/AF - Application development tool, Create customized interface.

SAS/ASSIST - SAS oriented interface. Generates SAS code as you point and click. Enterprise Guide is the new replacement to ASSIST and is a Microsoft oriented interface.

SAS/CONNECT - Allows one SAS session to talk to another on other hardware. Connect must be on both machines.

SAS/EIS - provides a syntax-free environment for building user-friendly enterprise information systems. For the first time, you can have EIS applications that are as easy to develop as they are to use. The software gives you such EIS "basics" as point-and-click menus with pull-down windows...access to native host applications such as EMAIL...data-sensitive drill down, what-if analyses, exception reporting, and multidimensional data viewing and analysis, and graphical display of critical success factors and grouped bar charts.

SAS/ETS - Econometric Time Series. Used to find trend analysis.

SAS/FSP - Full Screen Processing. Allows programmer to view entire screen when creating code.

SAS Bridge to ESRI - This gives you the ability to exchange spatial data between ArcGIS9, the market leading geographic information system (GIS) software from ESRI, and SAS. This new product links spatial, numeric and textual data through a single interface to improve efficiency, produce more intelligent results and communicate those results more effectively.

SAS/GRAPH - Robust graphing software. Can create high end, high-resolution graphs, maps, charts, plots etc.

SAS/IML - Write your own interactive matrix language.

SAS/INSIGHT - Dynamic tool for exploring and analyzing your data.

SAS/LAB - Researchers and scientists use LAB. Provides guided data analysis.

SAS/OR - SAS/ORÆ
SAS/OR software, a set of powerful management science solutions, is an integral decision support component of the SAS System. The software includes solutions for mathematical programming, scheduling, decision analysis, and drawing Gantt charts and network diagrams. Schedule projects; manage resources; solve multi-period planning problems; model transportation, distribution, and production networks; plan and manage investments and financial programs; and much more. SAS/OR software turns the data you already have into decision-support information you need.

SAS/QC - provides point-and-click interfaces to guide you through standard statistical quality control applications and design of experiments.

SAS/Secure - SAS now provides encryption services to increase the security of transmissions across a network. SAS/SECURE software makes use of the cryptographic services provided by RSA's encryption algorithms and Microsoft's CryptoAPI ciphers and is subject to export regulations. A form of fixed encoding is also provided with Base SAS software.

SAS/Share - SAS/SHARE is a data server that allows multiple users to gain simultaneous access to SAS files. Working hand-in-hand with other SAS components, SAS/SHARE anticipates the many combinations of hardware that you might need to access your data at any given moment, then locates and delivers the data to meet these multiple requests. And it's all transparent to the user. It is ideal for applications that require constant data updates and are accessed by many different users. It supports the same SAS security features, as well as additional security for server operations, including native host security and password verification. And SAS/SHARE safeguards data integrity by filtering out requests that conflict with ongoing activities.

SAS/Spectraview - data visualization and analysis tool, allows you to create, analyze, and modify geometric images representing multidimensional data. This software is useful for a variety of applications, including medical imaging, oil exploration, environmental sciences, chemical analysis, pharmaceutical studies, financial analysis, and more.

SAS/STAT - Regression and analysis tool.

SAS/Online-Tutor - provides for training directly on your desktop with SAS Software (for Version 8), requiring only a Web browser.

Enterprise Guide (Windows Only) - Enterprise Guide is a project-oriented Windows application designed to enable quick access to much of the analytic power of the SAS System for statisticians, business analysts, and SAS programmers. Leveraging the power of SAS on many platforms, Enterprise Guide enables users to access data locally or on SAS servers, manage the data, perform basic reporting and summaries, perform basic and complex data analyses, utilize the highest quality SAS graphics, and export or publish results to SAS servers and other Windows or server based applications. Work done in Enterprise Guide can also be easily shared by other Enterprise Guide users. Most work done in Enterprise Guide can be shared with other SAS users external to Enterprise Guide via the transparent SAS code generation underpinning the application.