Phil Weiss is an Advisory Solution Architect in Sales and Marketing Support. He was an accomplished application developer and statistical consultant for 10 years before joining SAS. His technical specialties are time series forecasting, high-performance analytics and distributed processing systems. Phil has written a book on the history of Lake Tahoe’s oldest licensed casino, the Cal-Neva Resort, a place once owned by Frank Sinatra.
This article and accompanying technical white paper are written to help SAS 9 users process existing SAS 9 code multi-threaded in SAS Viya 3.3. Read the full paper, Getting Your SAS 9 Code to Run Multi-Threaded in SAS Viya 3.3. The Future is Multi-threaded Processing Using SAS® Viya® When I first began
There are many compelling reasons existing SAS users might want to start integrating SAS Viya into their SAS9 programs and applications. For me, it comes down to ease-of-use, speed, and faster time-to-value. With the ability to traverse the (necessarily iterative) analytics lifecycle faster than before, we are now able to generate
I have been using the SAS Viya environment for just over six months now and I absolutely love it. As a long-time SAS coder and data scientist I’m thrilled with the speed and greater accuracy I’m getting out of a lot of the same statistical techniques I once used in
