Select SAS Enterprise Guide Mode

Because you are installing on a 64-bit machine and because your order contains software for both 32- and 64-bit machines, you must determine which bitness of SAS Enterprise Guide you want to install. If you want to directly open data using data providers, they must match the SAS Enterprise Guide bitness.

SAS recommends 32-bit Compatibility Mode because 64-bit Native Mode has the following limitations:

• You cannot use SAS Enterprise Guide to import data using 32-bit providers (including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Access, and legacy formats such as dBase). Note that this is different than PROC IMPORT, which depends on the bitness of SAS, not of SAS Enterprise Guide.
• You cannot view certain results "embedded" directly within applications such as PDF or RTF because they use 32-bit viewers.

If you choose 32-bit Compatibility Mode, each instance of the SAS Enterprise Guide client is limited to 4GB of memory use (compared to much higher with 64-bit Native Mode). In most cases, it is unlikely that you will ever reach the 4GB limit, since all the heavy processing is done on the SAS server.

Note that some products have a dependency on 32-bit SAS Enterprise Guide. If one of those products is in the list of products to be installed and you choose to install the 64-bit version of SAS Enterprise Guide, the 32-bit version will be installed also.

If you cannot decide, you can install both the 32- and 64-bit versions. To do so, you must run through the installation process twice, once for each version.

When you have selected the correct mode to install in, click Next to continue.