Advantages of CEDA

You can transparently process a supported SAS file with no knowledge of the file's data representation or character encoding.

No transport files are created. CEDA requires a single translation to the current session's data representation, rather than multiple translations from the source representation to transport file to target representation.

CEDA eliminates the need to perform multiple steps in order to process the file.

CEDA does not require a sign-on as is needed in SAS/CONNECT or a dedicated server as is needed in SAS/SHARE.