SAS Forecast Server 12.1

New Features and Enhancements

Here are some of the new features and enhancements in SAS Forecast Server 12.1:

a new administration component, SAS Forecast Project Manager

Note: To deploy the new component, SAS Forecast Project Manager, you must launch the SAS Deployment Wizard and select the Install Additional Software option. For more information, see Add SAS Products That Do Not Require Configuration in SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.
the ability to change the name of the input data set, to import project settings, to use a user-defined list of events, and to filter by model source, input variable, and reporting variable
new and enhanced SAS Forecast Batch interface
new reports
new SAS Forecast Server utilities

For more information about SAS Forecast Server, see http://support.sas.com/software/products/forecast.

Changes to Formatting and Presentation of Graphs and Tables

When upgrading from a previous release, you might see different formatting in the graphs in the Forecasting View, Modeling View, and Series View. In SAS Forecast Server 12.1, there were changes to the SILK graph component. The information in the graphs is the same.

Here are some examples of these formatting changes:

The values on the x-axis and y-axis could differ from a previous release. For example, on the y-axis, 4E8 now displays as 400000000. The format for the x-axis is still used to set the time interval for the x-axis.
The organization of the legend has changed. Also, the legend no longer includes the Reconciled Forecast Lower 95% and Reconciled Forecast Upper 95%.
The values in the data table are no longer rounded. In SAS Forecast Server 12.1, the NLBEST format is used by default, and the format width has been increased to avoid truncation. In some cases, changes to the 64–bit floating point calculations could results in different decimal positions. For example, in SAS Forecast Server 12.1, you might see 4.9999999 instead of 5.0.