Reflecting on the 2017 Metacoda journey. Wishing you peace, joy & love.

Warm welcome by Canadian Friends of SAS

We’ve recently returned from a fantastic first trip to Canada, presenting at SAS user group meetings and enjoying that famous Canadian friendliness. Statistics Canada is a Metacoda customer and their project lead SAS administrator, Joel Orr, is also the SAS Ottawa Platform Users Society (OPUS) president. After invitations from Joel – and Matt Malczewski, Communities […]

Here’s what 72 SAS admins told us…

At Metacoda we like to know as much as possible about how SAS admins work, so that we can better plan our business and products to best meet your needs. And what better way to find out than by simply asking? So in October we ran a SAS® Administrator Survey on Metadata Security. A huge […]

SAS® Security Model Design Golden Rules, Validation, and Monitoring with Metacoda

Have you heard of the SAS® Security Model Design Eight Golden Rules? If not, we first recommend reading the SAS Global Enablement and Learning (GEL) Five papers on Recommended SAS 9.4 Security Model Design (part 1 & part 2) These papers, provided by David Stern, are an excellent resource for SAS customers and partners to […]

SAS security best practices and secure the koalas’ future – Save The Koala Month!

Metacoda celebrated its 10th birthday this month! It’s an exciting milestone and we’d like to extend a great big thanks to you for being part of our Metacoda community along the way. We started off the year talking about journeys and, in particular, how we can help with your SAS security journey. We were wondering […]

GDPR Privacy/Security by design and default – Metacoda can help!

Those of you who work with the personal data of European citizens will be familiar with about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). If not, take a look at Manoj Patel’s word image and GDPR quick fact posts for an overview. If your organization has links to Europe, while there are some exemptions, you have until […]

Knowledge Sharing with Amadeus

One of the ways we support our Metacoda partners is with face-to-face knowledge transfer sessions, where we provide comprehensive updates about our products. While in the UK in June, we were fortunate to be able to schedule one of these sessions with Amadeus Software. As a Metacoda partner since 2011, Amadeus recommends our products whenever […]

Are you inspired to experience your new possible?

For the past few years SAS Forum Nederland has been held in Nieuwegein, a town not far from Utrecht. In Utrecht there is a museum, Museum Speelklok that I’ve been longing to visit and with a free Saturday afternoon following SAS Forum Nederland, I gleefully did. The Museum Speelklok website states “Museum Speelklok will take […]

Experience Your New Possible – What’s Your Journey?

We’ve recently returned from the beautiful cities of Nieuwegein, Brussels, Paris and Copenhagen where we were sponsors at four European SAS Forums. As always we had a fantastic time being part of the SAS community, and we definitely embraced the theme “Experience Your New Possible”! As with SAS Global Forum 2017, the events boasted thousands […]

SAS security journey continues with more SAS forum adventures!

Thanks for being part of our Metacoda community. We hope your professional and personal 2017 journeys have been going well. We’d like to give you a quick update on ours and how we can help with your SAS® security journey. Please feel free to reach out to say g’day, share your Metacoda koala antics, ask […]