For users running SAS 9.4 maintenance release 4 or later, the LIBNAME JSON engine is a great feature that allows JSON data to be read into SAS with only a few lines of code. For those  without access to the JSON engine…

SAS Viya is a cloud-native platform which is able to host many of SAS’s other services such as SAS Visual Analytics or SAS Studio. One of the strengths of SAS Viya is the Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) in-memory engine…

One of the first ever programming environments I used was a scripting language inbuilt into my Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator, which I needed for my Maths A-level…

SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) is a server that provides a cloud-based, run-time environment for data management and analytics with SAS. It allows data management and analytics to take place on either a single machine or as a distributed server across multiple machines…

When you need to export data from your SAS system JSON proves to be an ideal format, given the superb inbuilt tools in SAS…

Admittedly, this is a niche interest article, but I hope it will be helpful to anyone who has the need to use data jobs within SAS Data Management Studio (DMStudio) and SAS Data Management Server (DMServer) or simply for those who are interested in learning a little more about both of these suites…

A couple of months into my career at Butterfly Data, I was assigned with understanding how to deploy SAS Viya onto Microsoft Azure…

In my second interview with Butterfly Data, I was asked about SAS. I thought it was one of those clever questions interviewers ask to throw off a candidate…

Automation in IT systems is, of course, nothing new. In recent years, however, more and more online services have been adding automation components…

The ability to dynamically create code allows you to make incredibly flexible systems for processing data. For example, on a project Butterfly Data has worked on, we built a data quality system which checked the quality of 190+ data types, each of which had different formats.