The document outlines key strategies for modernizing SAS implementations, covering topics such as modernization readiness, success factors, and change management during migration. It emphasizes the importance of aligning business objectives with best practices, managing risk, and the role of licensing and deployment strategies. Additionally, it highlights the need for a coordinated approach to facilitate informed decision-making and successful adoption of new technologies.

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Perspectives
Key Strategies to Successfully Modernize
your SAS Implementation
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 Modernization readiness
 Success factors
 How to manage change during your migration
 What licensing options are available
 Where to go for more information
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sciences clients to modernize their SAS infrastructure
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 Modernization readiness
 Success factors
 How to manage change during your migration
 What licensing options are available
 Where to go for more information

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• PC SAS
• Server SAS
• Grid SAS
Deployment Models for SAS
• Compute resources
• Security and metadata
• SAS “assets” (files and programs)
• Business applications written in or integrated with SAS
• Supporting infrastructure (Citrix, storage tier)
• Potentially, SAS solutions (Visual Analytics/Statistics, Business Intelligence)
• Users – people using SAS and/or systems built in SAS for business operations
Systems Landscape for SAS

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 Changing business needs
 Changing licensing
 Introduce new technologies
to the business
 Simplify licensing
 Ability for IT and business to
dynamically manage
infrastructure
 Optimize utilization of
hardware and software
assets

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 Modernization readiness
 Success factors
 How to manage change during your migration
 What licensing options are available
 Where to go for more information

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Assess Design Implement Migrate Adopt Run
Manage, Execute, and Enable Change
Support - Center of Excellence
 Proven methodology and approach
 Implementation is not a serial activity
 Implementation is not adoption
 Change management is a vital component
 On-going alignment of performance to business demands
d-Wise has deep technical expertise in SAS and solutions architecture, but
more importantly we enable successful adoption

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Aligning the organization on a SAS licensing and
deployment strategy requires a coordinated effort
Design should accommodate today’s operational
needs and tomorrow’s agility needs
Execution and change management should minimize
business disruption and enable enterprise adoption
Business objectives should align to best practices
The risk profile of modernization should inform
planning and execution

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 Modernization readiness
 Success factors
 How to manage change during your migration
 What licensing options are available
 Where to go for more information

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Plan accordingly that implementation and
adoption are separate efforts.
Risk in a grid implementation is highest during
design and migration.
All work streams should have shared purpose and
understanding of current state and future state.
Grid is configurable and flexible, decisions that
prioritize simplicity reduce risk in implementation
and operation.
Migration cannot start too early, but it can start
too late. Start early.

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Adoption timing is a 3 dimensional problem: technology,
people, and projects (or studies).
Migration dependency analysis must include code/data review.
Prioritize an early effort to identify known and unknown
technical challenges and mitigation strategies.
Pilot exercises are a potent way to surface unknowns and
creates internal advocacy and peer-to-peer support
capabilities.
Project lifecycle (proximity to completion, ability to limit future
work in legacy platforms) are strong determinants of adoption
timing.
Adoption approach should provide flexibility in the transition
and steer around avoidable risk to business
operations/timelines.

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d-Wise can advise clients through the lifecycle to facilitate internal alignment
and enable informed decision-making.
Business Case and
Modernization
Planning
aligning
business
to a design
planning to
build and
adopt
migration of
legacy estate
scaling the SAS
platform
introducing
new
technologies
navigating
change

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 Modernization readiness
 Success factors
 How to manage change during your migration
 What licensing options are available
 Where to go for more information

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Core-Based Server-Based PC-Based
What is this called? Grid Server Desktop
Deploys to Any # of cores
A specific server or collection
of specific servers
A # of desktops
Agility
Move cores fluidly across
enterprise; allocate
capacity on demand;
provision resource queues
Move users between servers Not agile
High-Availability Built-in from ground up
Accomplished via redundancy
and/or virtualization
Having spare laptops
and/or lab licenses
Scalability
Easy to scale up or out;
pricing/terms for additional
cores pre-negotiated
Add another server,
renegotiate license
Buy another bundle of PC
licenses

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 Modernization Readiness
 Success Factors
 How to manage change during your migration
 What licensing options are available
 Where to go for more information

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