Late last month, while many of us were sipping eggnog and decking halls with boughs of holly, SAS released the 13.1 version of its analytical products. Readers of Maura Stokes' newsletter, SAS Statistics and Operations Research News (Nov 2013), have already been alerted to new features in products such as SAS/STAT 13.1.

Many of us at SAS are busy preparing videos, papers, blogs, Web pages, and other materials to highlight the new release. Over the next few weeks and months I will be highlighting recent additions to SAS/IML software, starting with SAS/IML 12.1 and moving on to the 13.1 release.

If you can't wait, the entire 13.1 documentation is online, so read the "What's New in SAS/IML 13.1" chapter of the documentation. For the other analytical products, there is a short overiew of new features in all of the SAS analytical products.

I can't wait to start blogging about all of the exciting features in 13.1!