SAS® OnDemand for Academics
Winter 2022 Upgrade Information - UPGRADE COMPLETE
The upgrade scheduled for the week of December 19-23 was completed on December 22. SAS OnDemand for Academics should now be available for all regions and sites.
Please review the following information to prepare.
This page will be updated closer to the upgrade dates.
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What's new?
The Microsoft Windows Operating system continues to be the only supported operating system.†
Please note: SAS® Studio 3.8 and SAS® Enterprise Guide® version 8.3 are already available.
Software staying at the current versions.
The following clients are not changing with this upgrade, however, it is recommended you read the following if you have not accessed SAS OnDemand for Academics recently.
SAS Enterprise Guide Users
Note: You must be enrolled in an active course with this client selected for use, related to your teaching and classroom requirements and noncommercial research activities, to access this software. See the license agreement for more information.
If you have any previous versions of SAS Enterprise Guide for SAS OnDemand for Academics, it is highly recommended you uninstall your older version and install the latest available client version. Use the following steps uninstall and download the latest version of SAS Enterprise Guide:
- Uninstall previous SAS Enterprise Guide Versions using the appropriate method for your Windows Operating system. See Microsoft support for more information.
- Sign in to the Welcome Page.
- Under Applications, click the Download Required link associated to SAS Enterprise Guide to redirect you to the SAS Downloads site.
- Sign in using your SAS Profile and select the appropriate installation package to download the latest version.
- When the download completes, launch the installation package and step through the deployment wizard.
SAS Studio Users
Note: Anyone (instructors, students, researchers, independent learners) can use SAS Studio for non-commercial purposes.
SAS Studio 3.8 will have additional patches applied but the version is currently at the latest release.
Need Help? Support?
If you experience issues logging on or accessing your software after the upgrade, please try the following:
- Review the Software Changes information.
- Clear your Web browser cache.
- Confirm you are using a supported Web browser.
- For other questions please refer to our FAQ page.
* Java Web Start was deprecated in Java 9 and Oracle does not provide any support, updates, or security fixes.
† We recognize there are users that access SAS OnDemand for Academics from Macs. Please see the following SAS Communities post about How to use SAS on a Mac.
