What is SAS?

SAS Institute was incorporated in the year 1976 due to the collective efforts of Anthony J. Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane T.  Helwig. The wide range of tasks that can be performed with SAS are Statistical Analysis, Data Management, Business Planning, forecasting & Decision Support, Quality Improvement, Data Warehousing, Remote Computing, Application Development, Operation Research & Project Management, various Business Solutions and many more. Thus SAS System offers many business solutions under one umbrella.

SAS solutions can used in a wide range of industry sectors like IT, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Government Organizations, Environmental Research, Biotechnology, Retail Industry and many more.

SAS offers the users many benefits such as it can work in both general as well as specialized enterprise application environments, Statistical procedures are also being updated on regular basis, technical support is also being provided by the experienced and specialized statisticians, etc. Thus SAS helps in solving complex business problems as well as in achieving the financial and operational excellence in the business.

SAS is made up of different components which are to be separately licensed and installed according to the requirements. SAS can work effectively on IBM mainframes, Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Open VMS Alpha.