SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

Current Release at
Your Site
4.1
4.1_M1
Release That You
Are Upgrading to High-Level Steps and Resources
12.1 1 Before you upgrade, see “SAS Forecast
Server 12.1” on page 186.
SAS Forecast Server 4.1
2 When you upgrade to SAS Forecast Server
12.1, you can migrate, or you can create a
new deployment. For more information about
how to migrate to a new release, see the SAS
Forecast Server 12.1: Migration Guide. For
more information about how to create a new
deployment, see the SAS Forecast Server
12.1: Administrator’s Guide.
Here are some of the major new features and enhancements for this release:
n New role-based functionality enables administrators to specify what capability should
be available to a group of users.
n You can now add custom code that runs when the project or environment opens and
when the project or environment closes.
n Support has been added for custom time intervals.
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n You can now combine forecasting models that can result in superior results when
compared to a single forecasting model.
n Rolling simulations enable you to view the statistics, generated values, and actual
values for a range of observations simultaneously rather than testing each out-ofsample
value individually.
For more information about SAS Forecast Server, see http://support.sas.com/
software/products/forecast.