SAS Institute

The SAS Institute is established in 1976, globally operating software company privately held with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, United States with $ U.S. 3.02 billion annual sales in 2013. Thus, SAS Institute, the largest software company, privately owned and greatest business analytics provider world.

The most important product of SAS Institute is the product of the same SAS ( pronunciation [sa ː ː s ] ). The name originally stood as an abbreviation for Statistical Analysis Systems, now the constricting, original meaning of the acronym is no longer applicable.

Business

SAS is in contrast to other large software companies in private hands. Owner is James Goodnight. SAS as an employer in the United States offers many extras: The company subsidized cafeteria in addition to their fitness club, massage, hairdressing, childcare, sports courts, jogging trails, a beauty farm, a work-life balance advice and a clinic. There is no plan offices.

The German head office is located in Heidelberg, the main office of Austria in Vienna and the main office for Switzerland in Wallisellen near Zurich.

Product

SAS provides software for statistical analysis, data mining, data warehouse and business intelligence solutions and include activities OLAP servers and components. In addition, SAS from the outset developed software for IT management, which is now used for the IT performance management, IT Capacity Management, IT scorecard and IT controlling. This demands that result, for example, ITIL (for example, service management ), covered. SAS now offers specific solutions for virtually all industries and business functions, Predictive Analytics, WebAnalytics, text mining and data mining on business intelligence platforms to solutions for Customer Intelligence (CI ), Risk Intelligence (RI ) or Supply Chain Intelligence ( SCI).

SAS offers high-performance solutions for nearly every industry, role or requirement, be it ETL, Data Cleansing or sustainability management, IT management, and performance management. For high performance computing offers SAS technologies such as in-memory analytics, in-database computing and grid computing.

For PCs running Windows and Mac OS X, the integrated system JMP ( pronunciation [ d͡ʒʌmp ] ) offered.

In addition, SAS offers more, largely GUI-based solutions, including Enterprise Guide, INSIGHT, LAB or Analyst Application. Many companies with large to very large amounts of data to tailor in-house analysis platforms based on software from SAS Institute.

Apart from its own database format interfaces exist with other data sources, such as relational databases, Microsoft Office and other applications, text or XML files.

SAS is programmed in a proprietary fourth generation programming language consisting of Base SAS and SAS Macro Language. Base SAS typically consists of a sequence of data steps (Data Steps) and procedure steps ( Proc Steps, short for procedure steps ):

  • The data steps make the reading of data and the preliminary data management.
  • Shaping the procedure steps simple to complex statistical analysis, but also the generation of graphs or reports.

The procedure PROC SQL table access is ensured on the basis of SQL.

Programs in C, Java, and R can be integrated. SAS software runs on almost all major hardware platforms.

Competitors of SAS are sorted by aspect:

Types of business entity Cary (North Carolina) Data-Mining Data-Warehouse Information technology management Information Technology Infrastructure Library Service-Management Extract, transform, load JMP (statistical software) Fourth-generation programming language Oracle Hyperion Oracle Corporation TIBCO Software
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