Description of SAS
SAS is driven by SAS programs that define a sequence of operations to be performed on data stored as tables. Although non-programmer graphical user interfaces to SAS exist (such as the SAS Enterprise Guide), most of the time these GUIs are just a front-end to automate or facilitate generation of SAS programs. SAS components expose their functionalities via application programming interfaces, in the form of statements and procedures.
A SAS program is composed of three major parts, the DATA step, procedure steps (effectively, everything that is not enclosed in a DATA step), and a macro language. SAS Library Engines and Remote Library Services allow access to data stored in external data structures and on remote computer platforms.
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SAS consists of a number of components, which organizations separately license and install as required.
SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
A component of the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server, is designed to provide access to data, analysis, reporting and analytics for non-technical workers (such as business analysts, power users, domain experts and decision makers) via menus and toolbars integrated into Office applications.
Base SAS
The core of SAS is the so-called Base SAS Software, which is used to manage data. SAS procedures software analyzes and reports the data. The SQL procedure allows SQL programming in lieu of data step and procedure programming. Library Engines allow transparent access to common data structures such as Oracle, as well as pass-through of SQL to be executed by such data structures. The Macro facility is a tool for extending and customizing SAS software programs and reducing overall program verbosity. The DATA step debugger is a programming tool that helps find logic problems in DATA step programs. The Output Delivery System (ODS) is an extendable system that delivers output in a variety of formats, such as SAS data sets, listing files, RTF, PDF, XML, or HTML. The SAS windowing environment is an interactive, graphical user interface used to run and test SAS programs.
BI Dashboard
A plugin for Information Delivery Portal. It allows the user to create various graphics that represent a broad range of data. This allows a quick glance to provide a lot of information, without having to look at all the underlying data.
Data Integration Studio
A client application.
SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server
Includes both a suite of business intelligence (BI) tools and a platform to provide uniform access to data. The goal of this product is to compete with Business Objects and Cognos' offerings.
Enterprise Computing Offer (ECO)Not to be confused with Enterprise Guide or Enterprise Miner, ECO is a product bundle.
Enterprise Guide
SAS Enterprise Guide is a Microsoft Windows client application that provides a guided mechanism to use SAS and publish dynamic results throughout an organization in a uniform way. It is marketed as the default interface to SAS for business analysts, statisticians, and programmers.
Enterprise MinerA data mining tool.
ETL
Provides Extract, transform, load services.
Information Delivery Portal
Allows a user to setup a personalized homepage where they can view automatically generated reports, dashboards, and other SAS data structures.
Information Map StudioA client application that helps with building information maps.
OLAP Cube Studio
A client application that helps with building OLAP Cubes.
SAS Web OLAP Viewer for JavaWeb based application for viewing OLAP cubes and data explorations.
SAS Web OLAP Viewer for .NET
SAS/ACCESSProvides the ability for SAS to transparently share data with non-native datasources.
SAS/ACCESS for PC Files
Allows SAS to transparently share data with personal computer applications including MS Access and Microsoft Office Excel.
SAS/AFApplications facility, a set of application development tools to create customized applications.
SAS/ASSIST
Early point-and-click interface to SAS, has since been superseded by SAS Enterprise Guide and its client-server architecture.
SAS/C
SAS/CALC
Is a discontinued spreadsheet application, which came out in version 6 for mainframes and PCs, and didn't make it further.
SAS/CONNECTProvides ability for SAS sessions on different platforms to communicate with each other.
SAS/DMI
A programming interface between interactive SAS and ISPF/PDF applications. Obsolete since version 5.
SAS/EISA menu-driven system for developing, running, and maintaining an enterprise information systems.
SAS/ETS
Provides Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
SAS/FSPAllows interaction with data using integrated tools for data entry, computation, query, editing, validation, display, and retrieval.
SAS/GIS
An interactive desktop Geographic Information System for mapping applications.
SAS/GRAPHAlthough base SAS includes primitive graphing capabilities, SAS/GRAPH is needed for charting on graphical media.
SAS/IML
Matrix-handling SAS script extensions.
SAS/INSIGHTDynamic tool for data mining. Allows examination of univariate distributions, visualization of multivariate data, and model fitting using regression, analysis of variance, and the generalized linear model.
SAS/Integration Technologies
Allows the SAS System to use standard protocols, like LDAP for directory access, CORBA and Microsoft's COM/DCOM for inter-application communication, as well as message-oriented middleware like Microsoft Message Queuing and IBM WebSphere MQ. Also includes the SAS' proprietary client-server protocols used by all SAS clients.
SAS/IntrNetExtends SAS’ data retrieval and analysis functionality to the Web with a suite of CGI and Java tools
SAS/LAB
Superseded by SAS Enterprise Guide.
SAS/OROperations Research
SAS/PH-Clinical
Defunct product
SAS/QCQuality Control provides quality improvement tools.
SAS/SHARE
Is a data server that allows multiple users to gain simultaneous access to SAS files
Allows visual exploration of large amounts of data. The data is plotted in a 3D space, and can then be visualised by creating envelope surfaces, cutting planes, etc, which can be animated depending on a fourth parameter (time for example).
SAS/STATStatistical Analysis with a number of procedures, providing statistical information such as analysis of variance, regression, multivariate analysis, and categorical data analysis.
SAS/TOOLKIT
SAS/Warehouse Administrator
Superseded in SAS 9 by SAS ETL Server.
SAS Web Report StudioPart of the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server, provides access to query and reporting capabilities on the Web. Aimed at non-technical users.
SAS is driven by SAS programs that define a sequence of operations to be performed on data stored as tables. Although non-programmer graphical user interfaces to SAS exist (such as the SAS Enterprise Guide), most of the time these GUIs are just a front-end to automate or facilitate generation of SAS programs. SAS components expose their functionalities via application programming interfaces, in the form of statements and procedures.
A SAS program is composed of three major parts, the DATA step, procedure steps (effectively, everything that is not enclosed in a DATA step), and a macro language. SAS Library Engines and Remote Library Services allow access to data stored in external data structures and on remote computer platforms.
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SAS consists of a number of components, which organizations separately license and install as required.
SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
A component of the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server, is designed to provide access to data, analysis, reporting and analytics for non-technical workers (such as business analysts, power users, domain experts and decision makers) via menus and toolbars integrated into Office applications.
Base SAS
The core of SAS is the so-called Base SAS Software, which is used to manage data. SAS procedures software analyzes and reports the data. The SQL procedure allows SQL programming in lieu of data step and procedure programming. Library Engines allow transparent access to common data structures such as Oracle, as well as pass-through of SQL to be executed by such data structures. The Macro facility is a tool for extending and customizing SAS software programs and reducing overall program verbosity. The DATA step debugger is a programming tool that helps find logic problems in DATA step programs. The Output Delivery System (ODS) is an extendable system that delivers output in a variety of formats, such as SAS data sets, listing files, RTF, PDF, XML, or HTML. The SAS windowing environment is an interactive, graphical user interface used to run and test SAS programs.
BI Dashboard
A plugin for Information Delivery Portal. It allows the user to create various graphics that represent a broad range of data. This allows a quick glance to provide a lot of information, without having to look at all the underlying data.
Data Integration Studio
A client application.
SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server
Includes both a suite of business intelligence (BI) tools and a platform to provide uniform access to data. The goal of this product is to compete with Business Objects and Cognos' offerings.
Enterprise Computing Offer (ECO)Not to be confused with Enterprise Guide or Enterprise Miner, ECO is a product bundle.
Enterprise Guide
SAS Enterprise Guide is a Microsoft Windows client application that provides a guided mechanism to use SAS and publish dynamic results throughout an organization in a uniform way. It is marketed as the default interface to SAS for business analysts, statisticians, and programmers.
Enterprise MinerA data mining tool.
ETL
Provides Extract, transform, load services.
Information Delivery Portal
Allows a user to setup a personalized homepage where they can view automatically generated reports, dashboards, and other SAS data structures.
Information Map StudioA client application that helps with building information maps.
OLAP Cube Studio
A client application that helps with building OLAP Cubes.
SAS Web OLAP Viewer for JavaWeb based application for viewing OLAP cubes and data explorations.
SAS Web OLAP Viewer for .NET
SAS/ACCESSProvides the ability for SAS to transparently share data with non-native datasources.
SAS/ACCESS for PC Files
Allows SAS to transparently share data with personal computer applications including MS Access and Microsoft Office Excel.
SAS/AFApplications facility, a set of application development tools to create customized applications.
SAS/ASSIST
Early point-and-click interface to SAS, has since been superseded by SAS Enterprise Guide and its client-server architecture.
SAS/C
SAS/CALC
Is a discontinued spreadsheet application, which came out in version 6 for mainframes and PCs, and didn't make it further.
SAS/CONNECTProvides ability for SAS sessions on different platforms to communicate with each other.
SAS/DMI
A programming interface between interactive SAS and ISPF/PDF applications. Obsolete since version 5.
SAS/EISA menu-driven system for developing, running, and maintaining an enterprise information systems.
SAS/ETS
Provides Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
SAS/FSPAllows interaction with data using integrated tools for data entry, computation, query, editing, validation, display, and retrieval.
SAS/GIS
An interactive desktop Geographic Information System for mapping applications.
SAS/GRAPHAlthough base SAS includes primitive graphing capabilities, SAS/GRAPH is needed for charting on graphical media.
SAS/IML
Matrix-handling SAS script extensions.
SAS/INSIGHTDynamic tool for data mining. Allows examination of univariate distributions, visualization of multivariate data, and model fitting using regression, analysis of variance, and the generalized linear model.
SAS/Integration Technologies
Allows the SAS System to use standard protocols, like LDAP for directory access, CORBA and Microsoft's COM/DCOM for inter-application communication, as well as message-oriented middleware like Microsoft Message Queuing and IBM WebSphere MQ. Also includes the SAS' proprietary client-server protocols used by all SAS clients.
SAS/IntrNetExtends SAS’ data retrieval and analysis functionality to the Web with a suite of CGI and Java tools
SAS/LAB
Superseded by SAS Enterprise Guide.
SAS/OROperations Research
SAS/PH-Clinical
Defunct product
SAS/QCQuality Control provides quality improvement tools.
SAS/SHARE
Is a data server that allows multiple users to gain simultaneous access to SAS files
SAS/SHARE*NETDiscontinued and now part of SAS/SHARE. It allowed a SAS/SHARE data server to be accessed from non-sas clients, like JDBC or ODBC compliant applications.
SAS/SPECTRAVIEW Allows visual exploration of large amounts of data. The data is plotted in a 3D space, and can then be visualised by creating envelope surfaces, cutting planes, etc, which can be animated depending on a fourth parameter (time for example).
SAS/STATStatistical Analysis with a number of procedures, providing statistical information such as analysis of variance, regression, multivariate analysis, and categorical data analysis.
SAS/TOOLKIT
SAS/Warehouse Administrator
Superseded in SAS 9 by SAS ETL Server.
SAS Web Report StudioPart of the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server, provides access to query and reporting capabilities on the Web. Aimed at non-technical users.
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