How much am I saving?

How much am I saving?

Unfortunately WebSDM pricing is not publicly available, so calculating exact savings is difficult. What we do know is that WebSDM is sold as in-house or hosted solution. The in-house solution requires deployment of an Oracle server and an Application server. So if you factor in Oracle licensing, hardware costs, and DBA and System Admin services the savings could easily be in the 6 digits range. The hosted solution is probably more cost efficient if you only need to use the tool for a short period of time, but will most likely exceed in-house costs if used regularly over a long term. I'll ask this question at our local user group on May 11th to see if anyone has better insight.

How much am I saving?

Max, You are right. I suppose people would be more interested in knowing the total cost of ownership, not just the software license. By the way, have you seen what it supposed to be new and improved PROC CDISC, i.e., Clinical Standards Toolkit? I heard it is free too.

SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit

I downloaded a copy from the SAS web site to use it with PC SAS 9.1.3. I believe in PC SAS 9.2 it has a better integration but with 9.1.3 the installation involves downloading ANT and configuring environment variable on your PC - very tricky for non technical people. And I still get errors when I run it so I have not been able to get any output yet. That is why I like the approach taken by OpenCDISC. Simple to use, very intuitive.

Re: SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit

Hi Max, After several tries, I eventually installed SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit. But I still can not use it – failed in SAS test case 2. It may be related to the message (below) I got during the tool installation. "Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program Files\Jave\jrel.5.0_15\lib\tools.jar" You may notice the word 'Jave' instead of Java'. I suspect if the message is caused by the typo? Lin Yan