For the background to this series of summary posts see Altair SLC 2026 series: Introduction to posts.
Book links:
Book A: Advanced Altair SLC
Comparing Altair SLC with SAS Software
A-05 From CDISC ADaM data to a validated comparison
A clinical chapter written by people who have done the work.
It follows the data journey end to end: acquisition and cleaning, transformation and integration, statistical analysis, visualisation, report generation. It covers the CDISC tooling that works with Altair SLC, from the Clinical Standards Toolkit to the R Pharmaverse.
Then it gets practical. Download the sample ADaM data, configure Altair SLC to read it, and build a macro that standardises and compares ADaM data sets.
The chapter closes with an exercise and a worked answer, because reading about clinical programming is not the same as doing it.
Advanced Altair SLC, chapter 8.
#ClinicalResearch #CDISC #ADaM #AltairSLC #StatisticalProgramming
Book B: Altair SLC for Business Users
Working with Altair SLC day to day
B-05 Everything you actually have to read and write
The data never arrives in the format you wanted.
One chapter in Book B covers what a working programmer really reads and writes: delimited files with PROC IMPORT, PROC EXPORT and ODS CSV; Excel through the XLSX and EXCEL LIBNAME engines and through ODS EXCEL; Microsoft Access; dBase; MySQL and MariaDB; ODBC through both the ODBC and ODBCOLD engines; and OLEdb.
The database connections added in Altair SLC 2026 are listed separately from those already there in 2025, so you can tell at a glance whether an upgrade solves your problem.
Altair SLC for Business Users, chapter 7.
#AltairSLC #Excel #ODBC #SQL #DataEngineering
Book C: Altair SLC for Companies
The case, the cost and the migration
C-05 Find out before you commit, not after
Will your SAS programs run in Altair SLC? You can find out before you spend anything.
Analytics Workbench syntax checks whole folders of programs through Analyse then Program Compatibility, and reports missing procedures, system options, global statements and Data Step options to an Excel file. The free Personal Edition is enough to run that check.
Book C also lists the known false positives, so that DIMn() and LAGn() are not mistaken for blockers when they work perfectly well.
Altair SLC for Companies, section 10.2.1.
#AltairSLC #Migration #SAS #ITStrategy