Before installing a
software update, you might want to know about future product updates
or plans to deprecate functionality. Learning this information early
in your planning process enables you to determine the following information:
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when to place your software order.
For example, suppose that you are running SAS Enterprise Guide and
SAS Enterprise Miner at your site. A new release of SAS Enterprise
Guide might be available in June, but the new release of SAS Enterprise
Miner will not be available until August. To minimize your downtime
and to go through the installation process only once, you decide to
place your order in August when you can get both new products.
For help with determining
when to place a software order, contact your SAS account representative.
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how plans to deprecate functionality
could affect your site. For example, the SAS Visual Data Explorer
has been deprecated in SAS 9.3. Knowing this information during the
planning stage helps you allot time in your schedule to convert the
data explorations to reports that can be opened in SAS Web Report
Studio.
For more information,
see Deprecated Functionality.