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About SAS
SAS ("sass") once stood for "statistical analysis system" and was created in the early 1970s by Jim Goodnight, John Sall and other NC State University colleagues to analyze agricultural-research data. When demand mushroomed, SAS Institute was founded in 1976 to develop and sell the software. After evolving into the world's leading provider of software and services for business analytics, the company dropped "Institute" from its name and became SAS (which is no longer an acronym).
SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, has fulfilled its mission to deliver proven solutions that drive innovation and improve performance since 1976. The privately held company helps organizations across industries realize the full potential of their greatest asset: data. In this way, SAS has a vision to transform the way the world works, giving customers the power to make the right decisions, THE POWER TO KNOW®.
Evidence of SAS' values can be seen in every company relationship, from long-standing customer engagements to the strong and focused employee community. SAS values include being:
- Approachable – accessible to customers and business contacts, making it easy for them to do business with SAS.
- Customer-Driven – working closely with customers to understand and solve their business issues, exceeding their expectations and delivering exceptional value.
- Swift and Agile – responsive, flexible and action-oriented, reducing complexity in a constantly changing world.
- Innovative – championing excellence by creatively and constructively challenging the status quo.
- Trustworthy – acting with transparency and openness, keeping all promises and inspiring confidence and respect.
Make better decisions faster with SAS
SAS is the first company to call when you need to solve complex business problems, achieve key objectives and more effectively manage your information assets. As the leader in business analytics software and services, we provide a technology platform and market-leading analytic applications to help you not only navigate today's challenges but capitalize on tomorrow's opportunities.
What Is the SAS System?
The SAS System is an integrated system of software products
that enables you to perform
- Data entry, retrieval, and management
- report writing and graphics
- Statistical and mathematical analysis
- Business planning, forecasting, and decision support
- Operations research and project management
- Quality improvement
- Applications development.
In addition, you can integrate with SAS many SAS business solutions that enable
you to perform large scale business functions, such as
- Data Warehousing and Data Mining
- Human Resources Management and Decision Support
- Financial Management and Decision Support
Overview of Base SAS Software
The core of the SAS System is base SAS software
- SAS language
- A programming language that you use to manage your data.
- SAS procedures
- Software tools for data analysis and reporting.
- Macro facility
- A tool for extending and customizing SAS software programs and for reducing text in our programs.
- DATA step debugger
- A programming tool that helps you find logic problems in DATA step programs.
- Output Delivery System (ODS)
- A system that delivers output in a variety of easy-toaccess formats, such as SAS data sets, listing files, or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
BASE/SAS
- data access
- management
- analysis
- presentation
Components of the SAS Language SAS Files
SAS Files: with formats or structures known to SAS all SAS files reside in a SAS data library.
SAS data set: is structured in a format that SAS can process.
SAS catalog: Many different kinds of information that are used in a SAS job are stored in SAS catalogs, such as instructions for reading and printing data values, or function key settings that you use in the SAS windowing environment.
SAS stored program contains compiled code that you create and save for repeated use.
Course Content of SAS Contents
Course Content of SAS Datawarehouse
Course Content of Clinical Reserch
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