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SAS Institute Inc., headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig. SAS was originally an acronym for Statistical Analysis System but for many years has been used as an arbitrary tradename (for which the company has received trademark protection in the US and abroad) to refer to the company as a whole, its products having long since broadened beyond the statistical analysis sphere. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Anthony James Barr, aka Tony Barr or Jim Barr, born 1940, is a software engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. ...
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Its main and original product was the SAS software package used in statistical analysis, consisting of numerous modules which ran on IBM mainframe computers. In addition to the usual mainframe practice of writing and submitting programs in batch, SAS offered the option, somewhat novel at the time, of a windowed programming environment, where the program being written or edited appeared in one window, the program output appeared in another window, and the program log appeared in a third window. The SAS System, originally Statistical Analysis System, is an integrated system of software products provided by SAS Institute that enables the programmer to perform: data entry, retrieval, management, and mining report writing and graphics statistical and mathematical analysis business planning, forecasting, and decision support operations research and project management quality...
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As other types of computers became available and powerful enough, SAS was continuously developed to run in those environments as well, keeping the familiar user interface and compatible file structure so that SAS users could easily switch from one type of operating system and/or hardware to another. Eventually fully functional SAS could be run on personal computers, either standalone or networked. The widespread rise of Microsoft Windows, however, brought some philosophical difficulties to the product developers, faced with adapting the standard SAS programming interface familiar to SAS users to the standard Microsoft Windows interface familiar to PC users. In addition, even on the personal computer platform, SAS retained the mainframe pricing structure of substantial yearly licensing fees, rather than adopting the personal computer pricing standard of a one-time outright purchase. The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...
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Company and software SAS is a fourth-generation programming language comprised of a suite of modules designed for business intelligence and customer relationship management. Although the advent of more powerful personal computers has also allowed lower cost statistical packages to be available, SAS software continues to be the standard used in statistical analysis of clinical pharmaceutical trials for submission to the Food and Drug Administration. It is also widely used for statistical analysis in the insurance industry and the field of public health, at least partially due to the powerful data import, handling, and manipulation functions added to the base package over the years, to extend the analytical capabilities to different types and formats of data. Other modules available provide for construction of applications for such tasks as data entry or validation. SAS also provides data mining, data warehousing, business intelligence, and business performance management software. The spectrum of offerings is so wide that many users are expert in one area of the SAS package, but have little or no experience in another. Online documentation for SAS software is provided by SAS Institute on their technical support website. A fourth-generation programming language (abbreviated 4GL) is a descriptive term used for programming languages designed with a specific purpose in mind, such as the development of commercial business software. ...
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SAS Institute remains a wholly owned private company, enabling the management, led by James Goodnight, to run the company in the manner they think best, without worry about the demands of shareholders. An unusually high percentage (approximately 25%) of the revenue of the SAS Institute goes to research and development, which is widely considered to be one factor which keeps them ahead of their competitors. [1] In addition, the management goes to great lengths to keep employees happy in their jobs. For example, onsite amenities include such things as "Free Fruit Mondays", "M&M Wednesdays", "Free Breakfast Fridays", as well as soda fountains and snacks in every breakroom. Other employee benefits include, "two on-site childcare centers, an eldercare information and referral program, an employee health care center, wellness programs, a 58,000 square foot recreation and fitness center, and many other work-life programs." [2] As a result, SAS Institute has frequently been included in lists of the best places to work in America. CBS' 60 Minutes did a segment on the employee benefits of SAS, entitled "The Royal Treatment." The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of scientific research and technological development. ...
SAS user groups Another factor in the success of SAS Institute is the growth of large and well organized SAS users groups, on local, regional, and international scales. While these serve to make some of the resources of SAS Institute and more experienced users available to the new user, they also serve the Institute by providing essentially free customer service and public relations functions. Once a year the SAS Global Forum meets for a conference in a different city each year, where marketing efforts by the Institute combine with technical and educational presentations by users of all levels of sophistication. This conference is widely considered a valuable experience, and has at least once been named the best information technology conference of the year. Unlike entities such as the Independent Oracle Users Group, however, SUGI has never been an independent, self-sufficient, self-operated users group; instead, SAS Institute has successfully maintained strong control of the SUGI Executive Committee and of conference structure and finances. The SAS Global Forum is administered by an Executive Board consisting of prior conference chairs and representatives from SAS Institute. Full-time SAS Institute employees manage and run the logistics of the SAS Global Forum conference itself, with the help and participation of volunteers (serving in such roles as section chairs and speakers) from the user community. After the 2006 conference in San Francisco SAS Global Forum was renamed from SAS Users Group International (SUGI). Only two people have attended every SAS Global Forum: SAS CEO Jim Goodnight and Phil Miller from Washington University in Saint Louis. Washington University in St. ...
Similar but more independent user conferences are held yearly by regional and local SAS users groups around the world. The US has six regional users groups: MWSUG, the MidWest SAS Users Group; NESUG, the NorthEast SAS Users Group; PNWSUG, the Pacific Northwest SAS Users Group; SCSUG, the South-Central SAS Users Group; SESUG, the SouthEast SAS Users Group; and WUSS, the Western Users of SAS Software. In addition, there are special interest users groups such as PhUSE, the independent Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange, which also hold annual conferences.
There is also an online user group, SAS-L, whose main Listserv server is at the University of Georgia. It is gatewayed to the Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.sas. To subscribe to the mailing list or view the archives of past messages, visit SAS-L or Google Groups. At SUGI 32 in San Francisco, preliminary steps were taken to establish a SAS Wiki FAQ maintained by the online SAS user community. LISTSERV® is an electronic mailing list software application, originally developed in the mid 1980s for the Bitnet computer network. ...
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In 2006, SAS Institute started online community forums on the SAS technical support web site. Although these web-based forums are somewhat slow and difficult to navigate, they provide a way to talk directly to SAS Institute developers, and contain information which is otherwise under- or un-documented.
Other strategies More recently, SAS Institute has followed the lead of other major corporate software suppliers by offering SAS Certification for SAS programmers, users, and developers to eliminate some of the risk of hiring individuals of unknown ability; like many such programs, it has met with mixed success. The Institute has similarly launched a program of SAS Partners, who provide a pool of available consultants for corporations who wish to begin incorporating SAS applications into their operations but lack any experience with the software. These individuals also serve as unpaid ambassadors, evangelists, and salesmen for the Institute; as they market their services and products to corporations, as a consequence licensing fees naturally will flow to SAS.
Books and publications on the SAS System are published by mainstream publishers (e.g. John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press) and many more by SAS Institute itself, which instituted a "Books By Users" program in the early 1990s, a program now known as SAS Press. The Wiley Building in Hoboken, New Jersey, located on the waterfront between River Street and Frank Sinatra Drive. ...
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Community SAS is the principal sponsor of SAS Soccer Park, located in Cary, North Carolina, and Cary Academy. SAS Soccer Park is one of the premier soccer complexes in the United States. ...
Nickname: Technology Town of North Carolina Location of Cary shown within North Carolina Coordinates: Country United States State North Carolina County Wake County Founded 1750 Incorporated April 6, 1871 - Mayor Ernie McAlister Area - City 112. ...
Cary Academy is a private middle and upper school in Cary, North Carolina established in 1996. ...
See also The SAS System, originally Statistical Analysis System, is an integrated system of software products provided by SAS Institute that enables the programmer to perform: data entry, retrieval, management, and mining report writing and graphics statistical and mathematical analysis business planning, forecasting, and decision support operations research and project management quality...
JMP is a computer program that was first developed by John Sall to perform simple and complex statistical analyses. ...
DataFlux logo Dataflux corporation was founded in 1997 and is located in Cary, NC. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the SAS Institute, (also located in Cary, NC). ...
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- ^ http://www.sas.com/corporate/worklife/index.html
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