The Output Delivery System (ODS) was upgraded to handle advanced statistical graphics natively. Statisticians could generate publication-quality plots automatically alongside their analytical output.
SAS officially announced the new base architecture, otherwise known as SAS 9.0, at this event, promising widespread availability by the third quarter of 2002. However, the path to market proved to be longer than anticipated. The first widely available release would ultimately be SAS 9.1, which arrived in early 2003. The complete SAS 9 platform, as a full end-to-end business intelligence (BI) suite, was not formally unveiled until March 30, 2004, when SAS leadership, including CEO Jim Goodnight, called it the “most significant” software release in the company’s 28-year history. Sas Version 9.0
Integrated (PRX functions) for advanced string manipulation. Legacy and Continued Relevance The Output Delivery System (ODS) was upgraded to
. This allowed for a centralized way to manage data definitions, security, and user roles across different SAS applications. Multi-Threading: Version 9.0 leveraged multi-threaded processing However, the path to market proved to be
SAS Version 9.0 was built to dismantle these walls.