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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![SAS Global Forum 2015: What's inside The Quad?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Every college and university seems to have its own unique version of “The Quad”, where folks mingle and serious (and more often less serious!) happenings are staged. At SAS Global Forum, The Quad is the former SAS Support and Demo area, freshened up with today’s casual atmosphere, more interactive spaces
![Deploying SAS software--save time and effort with shared configuration Diagram showing SAS deployment defined as compute tier, metadata tier and middle tier.](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/03/sharedconfig1.png)
SAS System software supports a wide variety architecture and deployment possibilities. It’s wild when you think about it because you can scale the analytic power of SAS from the humblest single CPU laptop machine all the way up to hundreds-of-machines clusters. When SAS deployments involve many machines, it’s natural to
![SAS Global Forum 2015: SAS programming for newer technologies](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Many experienced and novice SAS programmers take advantage of the power of a “language within a language” offered by PROC SQL, SAS/IML and the SAS Macro Facility. But how many of you are aware of recently added languages and techniques? These newer tools are designed to help SAS programmers leverage
![Headed to SAS Global Forum and searching for industry-related content?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/04/Networking.jpg)
If you are one of the thousands of SAS users soon to be in Dallas for SAS Global Forum, you've probably already used the online tools to help you view sessions related to your industry. It’s easy to do by filtering on your own particular industry, such as banking, or
![SAS and Hortonworks – partnering to unlock your Hadoop data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/04/HortonworksPic.jpg)
Contributed by Kim Truong, Sr. Marketing Manager, Hortonworks, where she is responsible for partner marketing with SAS. At Hortonworks, we’ve been working with SAS engineering teams since 2013, allowing our customers to leverage the inherent scale-out compute and storage capabilities of Hadoop in combination with the richness of SAS analytics.
![Include Info Windows in your SAS Visual Analytics reports](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/03/VAinfo1.png)
An Info Window is a SAS Visual Analytics pop-up window that provides additional information when a user selects a report object. When designing your report, you can think of an Info Window as simply an additional report section that is defined as hidden. Now that you know what an Info