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SAS Launches OnDemand for Academics

By Michelle Rutledge
04/20/07

Analytics software developer SAS recently announced OnDemand for Academics, a new service designed for higher education. The new version provides additional means for students and educators to access SAS analytics technologies, via the Internet through a graphical interface.

OnDemand for Academics provides Guided Analytics, which allows users to organize and maintain projects, as well as create reports, graphical, analytical, and wizard-based tasks; the ability to access and view data types and manipulate data table; OLAP data cubes for storing, analyzing, and extracting information from multidimensional sources; and result distribution and sharing via integration with with Microsoft Windows Scheduler.

Professors who wish to register can download the software free. Students will be charged based on length of license, estimated to be equal to the cost of a textbook. OnDemand for Academics is expected to be available for the fall 2007 semester.

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