Introduction to SAS programming

Introduction to SAS programming Statistical Analysis System (SAS) is a software suite that has been developed by SAS Institute, one of the leaders in analytics. It is useful for performing advanced analytics, multivariate analyses, business intelligence, data management functions, and also for conducting predictive analytics. 

 Use of SAS: 

         SAS is used by many top organizations which include Google, Facebook, Twitter and Accenture for answering the many questions which persist at a business and organizational level and is also used for generating informative reports. It helps in business forecasting, quality improvement, operations research and project management. It is particularly useful in applications development and graphics design. This article should help you get an intuition about the working of SAS applications and a hint about it’s raw power. 

 Types of SAS software:

            There are various types of SAS software that are available.In general there are 4 types of SAS software which are given below. SAS for Windows SAS EG (Enterprise Guide) SAS Enterprise Miner (EM) SAS Stat Software The most used software among the above types is SAS for Windows. It can be easily deployed and allows for modernization of your SAS environment by enabling grid processing. SAS Libraries: Libraries are the storage mechanisms in SAS. It can store the programs which can be similar in nature. 

Broadly speaking there are 2 types of libraries viz. temporary and permanent. 

Temporary libraries are those that exist only during the current SAS session or job. 

Permanent libraries, as the name suggests are stored in the external storage and are not deleted at the end of a session.