Q: When is the latest SAS version not the latest SAS version?
Friday, August 22nd, 2008On a project I am working on we upgraded our SAS licenses from Data Integration Server to Enterprise Data Integration Server.
We were really impressed with the capabilities of Dataflux, and as we were using SAS DI Studio in anger to populate our warehouse, the idea of integrating the Dataflux rules into our ETL processes also appealed.
We had a demo of Dataflux version 8, which looks sexy and has a lot of great features (which you would expect from one of the top 3 data quality tools in the world).
Imagine our disappointment when we got the CD’s to find we had been shipped Dataflux 7.0, not version 8 that was demo’d.
Simple mistake we thought, so onto to our capable SAS account manager.
Well we were wrong, it seems that Dataflux 7.0 is certified (and works) with DI Studio, Dataflux 7.1 and 8.x will be supported in SAS 9.2.
Tricks for young players I suppose., but then again I am not so young anymore…..
I am sure Dataflux 7.0 and DI Studio will do what we need, but still slightly disappointing.