SAS - 2024 Renewals Only

This Agreement is for institutions renewing on a like-for-like basis onlyBenefits

• Discounts of between 95% and 98% vs commercial prices  
• Home use included as part of site licence
• Free of charge access to SAS Joint Certificates Agreement

Important dates

Agreement start: 01 August 2024

Agreement end: 31 July 2025

Subsequent invoice date: n/a

Commitment Period

From the licence start date to 31 July 2025.  Please see the Terms and Conditions tab for further information.

Eligible Institutions

Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, and to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in Ireland.

Other organisations aligned with Jisc’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Chest will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.

Please be aware: a two-tier pricing structure exists for this Agreement effective 1 August 2024.  Existing customers renewing licences exactly as is will benefit from legacy pricing; any institution changing their SAS licence compared to last year, or any new licence (be it from an existing SAS customer or a new SAS customer) will move onto SAS's new pricing model.  This Agreement is for renewing institutions only; all new customers should see these pages.

Background Information

The first Chest Agreement with SAS was negotiated nearly 30 years ago

Supplier Details

Licensor: SAS Software Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 1316437), whose registered office is Wittington House, Henley Road, Medmenham, Marlow, SL7 2EB.

Product Description

This Agreement is for SAS Education Analytic Suite (EAS) and SAS VIYA.  In line with SAS's global licensing model, it offers licences for these products and a range of additional modules at the following levels:

• Department
• Faculty
• Campus

Institutions which licenced SAS during the 2023/2024 licence year are able to renew their licences 'as is', thereby choosing between 'Research and Teaching' and 'Research Only' licences; all other orders have the above choices.  Definitions of these terms are below, and are repeated on the 'Products and Pricing' tab.

The actual licences and modules on offer are detailed on the Products and Pricing tab.

Department Licence
The Software may be accessed and used only by Users and Students for the purposes of participating in Teaching and Research activities, as defined herein, conducted within a single school or college of a DGI that are dedicated to a single subject ("Department"). Where there are multiple Departments within a single school or college, a separate license is required for each Department that will use the Software. The Software may be installed on any number of items of Authorized Hardware running the operating systems identified in this Supplement subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement.

Faculty Licence*
Customer represents that it is a Midsize University where a “Midsize University” is defined as a DGI that has ten thousand (10,000) students but less than or equal to twenty-five thousand (25,000) students enrolled on a full-time equivalent basis. The Software may be accessed and used only by Users and Students for the purposes of participating in Teaching and Research activities associated with Customer. The Software may be installed on any number of items of Authorized Hardware running the operating system(s) specified
in this Supplement subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement.

Campus Licence*
Customer represents that it is a Large University where a “Large University” is defined as a DGI that has more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) students enrolled on a full-time equivalent basis. The Software may be accessed and used only by Users and Students for the purposes of participating in Teaching and Research activities, as defined herein, associated with Customer. The Software may be installed on any number of items of Authorized Hardware running the operating system(s) specified in this Supplement subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement.

Professor / Researcher Licence  Customers requiring a Professor / Researcher Licence should refer to the SAS - New Agreement

*In other (i.e. non UK&I) academic markets SAS defines these categories by Student numbers and Small / Midsize / Large university categories. These are NOT applicable to Chest customers. Under this Agreement, Chest customers are to use the familiar UK HE administrative categories of Department, School/Faculty and Campus.

SAS VIYA is a cloud-enabled, in-memory analytics engine that provides quick, accurate and reliable analytical insights. Elastic, scalable and fault-tolerant processing addresses the complex analytical challenges of today, while effortlessly scaling for the future.

As an integrated part of the SAS Platform, SAS VIYA provides:

• Faster processing for huge amounts of data and the most complex analytics, including machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence.
• A standardized code base that supports programming in SAS and other languages, like Python, R, Java and Lua.
• Support for cloud, on-site or hybrid environments. It deploys seamlessly to any infrastructure or application ecosystem.

SAS VIYA is also available through the SAS Chest Agreement. 

EXISTING CUSTOMERS

Legacy customers (ie those who held a SAS licence during the 2023/24 licence year and renewed as is) can continue to order VIYA up to the same level for free.  For example, if an institution has a Campus licence for SAS, they can also have a Campus licence for VIYA at no additional cost; if they have a Department licence for SAS they are only entitled to a Department licence for Viya at no additional cost.  

NEW ORDERS

Any customer who changes their order from previously, or who did not hold a SAS licence during the 2023/24 licence year, should refer to the 'New Customers SAS Agreement'

NB: THE SAS VIYA PLATFORM HAS SPECIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS WHICH MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL COST IMPLICATIONS. Consult the SAS Support site for SAS VIYA System requirements and installation guides.

The basic SAS VIYA package for universities includes:

• SAS® Visual Analytics (on SAS® VIYA TM)
• SAS® Visual Statistics (on SAS® VIYA TM)
• SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning
• SAS® Econometrics
• SAS® Optimization
• SAS® Visual Forecasting
• SAS® Visual Text Analytics
• SAS/QC® (on SAS® VIYA ®)
• SAS/IML® (on SAS® VIYA ®)
• SAS/ACCESS Interfaces (on SAS VIYA )
• SAS® Text Analytics Languages (on SAS VIYA )
• SAS® e-Learning Offerings

Additional SAS Viya modules may be added to the basic SAS VIYA package.  Each module within the following groups is available to be purchased individually at extra cost.  The prices on the Products and Pricing page are per module:

• Additional SAS VIYA a modules: Group 1
  • SAS® Decision Manager (on SAS VIYA )
  • SAS® Model Manager (on SAS VIYA )
  • SAS® CONNECT (on SAS VIYA )
• Additional SAS VIYA modules: Group 2
  • SAS® Data Preparation

Process for ordering / implementing SAS VIYA

Using the Chest/SAS Order Form, the institution should order SAS VIYA v4.0 software as an add-on to its exiting SAS software stack. This stack is licensed under the Chest Agreement with SAS.

The environment within which SAS VIYA is to be hosted is the institution’s choice and its responsibility to acquire, install and maintain. Assuming that this is accepted, the following steps are necessary for obtaining SAS VIYA:

1. Understand the system requirements for SAS VIYA
2. A MS Teams call with a SAS customer advisor to discuss technical preparation by HIC.  Chest can help facilitate this.
3. Chest/SAS Order Form completed and submitted per usual
4. Chest will inform SAS Legal about the order
5. In this instance NO payment is asked for SAS VIYA (see these pages)
6. SAS Legal will update its systems with the new add-on software for the institution and the appropriate passcodes will be generated
7. SAS software download email(s) - with the SAS passcodes – will then be sent to the institution / HIC
8. Installation of SAS VIYA is done by HIC, or (for payment) by either SAS Professional Services or an approved SAS Partner.

This whole process depends on quick responses by ALL parties and could potentially happen within a few days of being initiated. 

Chest is currently in negotiations for the SAS agreement for 2025. We will share pricing and other updates as soon as they are available, so please check back regularly for the latest developments.

Please check this page for the latest updates.

Trials

Sites may evaluate SAS Software on request to Chest Help by emailing help@chest.ac.uk 

Product Documentation

Documentation to be provided electronically in HTML format on the media containing the software.

Training and Training Materials

SAS runs a full programme of training courses for all levels of user. In exceptional circumstances, these may be available at educational discount for Chest customers. Please call your local SAS Training office to find more information and to ascertain eligibility for educational prices.

Details of courses are to be found on the SAS Training website.

Check out the other free SAS tutorial options, which give tips and tricks for working with SAS software and download the free SAS University Edition Software for learning statistics and quantitative methods.

Technical Support

SAS will use reasonable efforts, either by telephone, fax or email to help the Site solve specific problems with installation or use of the SAS software. This advice and support will be communicated to the nominated contact and/or his/her deputy at Licenced Sites during normal business hours within the UK. It may not be possible to solve all problems or correct all errors in the Software. Most versions of SAS Software will be supported, but if Sites do not choose to install the most current release of SAS Software, the level of technical support may diminish over time.

SAS support can be contacted at:

Telephone: 0845 4029907
Fax: 01628 483203
Email: support@sas.com
Web: Technical Support website

A vast amount of technical information, as well as user communities, can be found at the SAS Support Website

System Release, New Versions and Functionality

One copy of system releases and/or New Versions and new supporting documentation will be sent by SAS to each Licensed Site (via the institution’s Technical Contact) as and when they become commercially available.

The latest version of SAS is SAS 9.4 TS1M8. This was released on 31 January 2023.

SAS 9.4 TS1M7 and SAS 9.4 TS1M8 are supported on Windows 11. Earlier versions of SAS 9.4 are NOT supported on Windows 11.

For further information see SAS Supported Operating Systems.

The preferred media distribution is via Electronic Download. However, SAS can provide a copy of the media on DVD should this help.

If your institution has an active agreement for SAS, you are entitled to install the latest version of the software for the platform(s) specified on your order. Please check this with your institution’s Technical Contact. If they don’t already have access to the latest version of SAS 9.4, they should email support@sas.com and ask to be sent the download link and instructions.

You won’t need updated product authorisation codes (SIDS/SETINITS) to activate the latest release, since the codes received when your licence was purchased or renewed will work for all supported versions of SAS, until the expiry date of the agreement.

Platform requirements

A platform availability list and system requirements guide will be maintained by the Supplier on its website.

Virtual and Cloud Computing installations are permitted, provided that the use of the Software remains solely for the “Educational Purposes” described the SAS Licence Terms and Conditions. 

See SAS definitions of Virtual and Cloud Computing Installations 

Method of delivery of product

SIDS/SETINITS will be supplied to a Site when payment for the products has been received by Chest. SIDS/SETINITS are product authorisation codes; a program which, when applied to the Software, allows the Software to operate for its designated term.

Technical Contacts are designated to receive software and SETINITS. He/She will be from a technical background, with an understanding of SAS software, and be prepared to install/distribute the software and provide support to users.

System Requirements

Please visit the SAS website for up-to-date information.