SAS (SAS Institute)

Version 9.4

The SAS Education Analytical Suite is an integrated system of software products that enables the programmer to perform:

data entry, retrieval, management, and mining;
report writing and graphics;
statistical analysis;
business planning, forecasting, and decision support;
operations research and project management;
quality improvement;
applications development;
data warehousing; and
platform independent and remote computing.

Note: UMN's SAS license is only intended for teaching, learning and research use.

Purchase or Download

UMN Licenses

Availability	Cost
Department For installation on a University-owned device	$75–5,300 Paid for with departmental funds
Employee For installation on an employee's personal device	Available only for UMN teaching, learning, or research
Student For installation on a student's personal device	$75.00 Paid by student

Instructions for Departments

Make sure your operating system supports running SAS.
Make sure you have enough space on your computer: SAS uses approximately 20 GB of disk space depending on options selected but up to 40 GB disk space is needed during installation, for downloaded files and the SAS Depot.
Know that your license expires on November 30, regardless of when you purchase it.
SAS continues working with warning notices in a grace period beyond November 30 which will allow student use of SAS through the end of Fall semester.
Order a License on our Kivuto-hosted webstore.
If you are not already authenticated into a UMN secure site, you will be asked to do so.

Instructions for Employees

Faculty and staff can purchase this software for use on their personal computers directly from SAS.

If you need to use this software exclusively for UMN teaching, learning, or research and you want to install it on a personally-owned device, follow the steps under Instructions for Departments above.

Instructions for Students

If you are taking a course that requires SAS, please check with your instructor to see if the free version will work for the course you are enrolled in and if so, download SAS OnDemand for Academics. Otherwise purchase a license by following these steps.

Follow steps 1–3 under Instructions for Departments above.
Order a License on our Kivuto-hosted webstore.
Purchase your license using a credit card or with a PayPal account.

Participating College/Units in Unit-wide License

CFANS (2024 license)
School of Public Health (2024 license)
Academic Clinical Affairs (2024 license)

Components

Base SAS Software
SAS OnlineTutor Programming Software
SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 Software
SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL
SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC Software
SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB Software
SAS/ACCESS Interface to ORACLE Software
SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files Software
SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYBASE Software
SAS/AF Software
SAS/ASSIST Software
SAS/CONNECT Software
SAS/EIS Software
SAS/ETS Software
SAS/FSP Software
SAS/GIS Software
SAS/GRAPH Software
SAS/IML Software
SAS/INSIGHT Software
SAS/LAB Software
SAS/OR Software
SAS/QC Software
SAS/SECURE for Windows Software
SAS/SHARE Software
SAS/SPECTRAVIEW Software
SAS/STAT Software

Terms and Conditions

General Technology Products Terms & Conditions apply to this software license. If additional terms and conditions apply to this item, they will be listed below.

Restrictions

UMN's SAS license is only intended for teaching, learning and research use.
- For example, if student or instructor uses the school's real data to find patterns and warning signs of why students might leave school before graduation only to understand what is possible to predict, it is an academic use.
- If an admissions or student retention office takes any action on the data, it is an administrative use.
- If an instructor provides results of a student satisfaction survey to their current students for analysis, it is an academic use, but if instructors use those results to change their approach in the classroom, that is now administrative use.
This software runs off of a license code. This license code expires in February of every year, and will not be tied to your actual license with OIT Software Licensing.
This software can be installed on up to two computers that are used by the licensee as long as the software is not running on both computers at the same time.

Resources

Vendor Links

Campus Resources

Have a question about software licenses, codes, or renewals? Send e-mail to the OIT Software License Team.
Need help using the software? Contact Technology Help.

Other Resources

Minnesota SAS Users Group
SAS for Higher Education on sas.com
Sign up for or read archived SAS Academic E-Newsletters on sas.com
SAS Resource Center on sas.com
If you are experiencing difficulties updating your license please see the SAS Knowledge base
If you receive this error while trying to update your license file (setinit, .sss, .sid) it means you are not logged into your computer with Administrator rights: ERROR: "Insufficient authorization to access C:\Program Files\SAS\SASFoundation\9.2\setinit.log"
If you receive a reboot error, or you are constantly being asked to reboot during SAS installation please read this SAS Knowledge base article