SAS

Please review the eligibility chart and information below. This information is subject to change for clarification and improvement purposes. If you have additional software related questions, please contact the Campus IT Help Desk (801-581-4000 or helpdesk@utah.edu).

Eligibility Chart

Product Information

License information
Terms of use
Obtaining the product
System Requirements
Installing the product
Update your software after renewing your license
Support

Additional Resources

Eligibility Chart

Product	Device ownership
	Student	Employee	University
SAS Education Analytical Suite (EAS) Teaching & Research	¹	²	³
Notes:
1.	Students are eligible to purchase, install and use this software on personally owned or leased computers solely for academic non-profit, non-commercial, educational and research purposes. Any other use is strictly prohibited. Students whose primary campus is the University of Utah Asia Campus are not eligible to purchase, install or use this software except when enrolled in and attending classes in North America.
2.	Faculty and Staff are eligible to purchase, install and use this software on personally owned or leased computers and this software must ONLY be used for work-related non-profit/non-commercial instructional, academic teaching and research purposes. Any other use is strictly prohibited. Faculty and Staff whose primary employment location is the University of Utah Asia Campus are not eligible to purchase, install or use this software except during employment and working in North America.
3.	Faculty and Staff are eligible to purchase, install and use this software on university owned or leased computers and this software must ONLY be used for work-related non-profit/non-commercial instructional, academic teaching and research purposes. Any other use is strictly prohibited. Faculty and Staff whose primary employment location is the University of Utah Asia Campus are not eligible to purchase, install or use this software except during employment and working in North America.

Product information

License information

Our license includes the SAS Educational Analytic Suite with Enterprise Miner for Desktop. SAS is a analytics product essential for teaching and academic research. The Educational Analytical Suite (EAS) is a bundle of SAS analytical software offered at a discount to the academic community.

The University has purchased an annual subscription license. A subscription must be purchased for each licensing term for any software that is installed on a computer. The licensing term runs January - December.

Terms of use

This software may ONLY be used for Teaching/Research purposes defined as software used for purposes of classroom instruction, academic research, and course work primarily related to a post-secondary degree requirements. The software may be used by students, faculty, and staff supporting such use.

Prohibited use includes the following:

University Administrative Use
Hospital Administrative Use or Operational Use
Commercial Use

Obtaining the product

To purchase SAS licenses, sign into our Software Catalog and go to the following products for the licenses:

SAS EAS for Teaching & Research - Annual License

There are two install types available:

Single User for use on desktop computers and
Concurrent user (for use on a department network managed by a server). You need to purchase Concurrent User licenses equal to the number of simultaneous users accessing the software at a given time.

System Requirements

Please see the SAS website to review the System Requirements prior to purchasing this product.

Installing the product

If you need installation files, you can obtain them free on our web store. Note all of the files are required to install SAS.

Follow the installation instructions here. If you have questions or problems, please contact the Campus Help Desk at 801-581-4000 ext 1.

Note: Installation will require the license files that only the purchaser of the product can obtain from their order summary.

Update your software after renewing your license

Obtain your license file from your order history on the Software Catalog. If someone purchased the product for you, only they can retrieve the license files.

Note: the license file is a text file and although the file contains text that appears to be editable using a text editor, do not do so. Altering the license file in any way destroys the integrity of the file.

Read and follow the instructions in the SAS renewal Instructions file that is included with the license file(s). The filenames are identified below.

Single User Licenses

SAS_planned_renewal_instructions_LIN_X64.txt
SAS_renewal_instructions_LINUX.txt
SAS_renewal_instructions_WIN.txt
SAS_renewal_instructions_WIN_32.txt

Concurrent User License

SAS_planned_renewal_instructions_LIN_X64.txt
SAS_planned_renewal_instructions_SUN_64.txt
SAS_planned_renewal_instructions_WIN.txt
SAS_planned_renewal_instructions_WIN_32.txt

Support

Contact the Campus Help Desk at 801-581-4000 ext 1. Ask the help desk agent to create an incident for you. Include your order number for the license purchase and a screen shot of the error.

Additional Resources

SAS EAS Information
SAS Support
SAS Hot Fix Announcements (may requires free account on SAS Support web site)
- SAS Hot Fix Analysis, Download & Deployment (SASHFADD) Tool analyzes a SAS^® 9.4 deployment. The tool creates a customized report that lists available hot fixes for the installed SAS products, and also generates scripts that automate hot-fix downloads.
SAS Academic Programs - Free software options for students, educators and independent learners.
SAS OnDemand for Academics: browser-based programming envornment using SAS Studio for students, educators & independent learners. Includes the following:
- Studio
  - SAS/STAT – State-of-the-art statistical software.
  - Base SAS – Flexible, extensible fourth-generation programming language for data access, transformation and reporting.
  - SAS/IML – Interactive matrix programming and exploratory data analysis.
  - SAS/OR – Enhanced operations research methods for optimizing processes and addressing management science challenges.
  - SAS/QC – Tools for statistical quality improvement.
  - SAS/ETS – Model, forecast and simulate processes with econometric and time series analysis.
- The following are available to professors who register a class and their students: SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, & SAS Forecast Server.
SAS Viya for Learners: full suite of cloud-based software that supports the entire analytics life cycle and lets you code in SAS, Python, or R. For academic, noncommercial use only.