Introduction To SAS

What is SAS:

SAS in its full form being called as 'Statistical Analytics System' is basically a set of tools which are being used mainly for data analytics and management. It is also widely used for day to day data processing and reporting in the IT industry.

Currently SAS offers solutions to wide array of sectors like banking, insurance, health care, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals and much more.

SAS provides end to end analytical solutions from data sourcing, processing, that is from ETL to reporting on the single platform and that is how SAS has got cutting edge over its counter parts.

Other considerable aspect is that tough SAS has got wide range of tool sets having different GUI and serving distinct purposes the common building block of all those is the scripting language which is generally called as SAS programming. In addition if take into consideration the whole BI suite it has been built on single metadata platform which is inbuilt part of SAS suite. This makes lot easier to share the metadata across multiple tools and keep a single version of truth.

List of common SAS tools:

BASE SAS:

Generally co related with SAS programming is standalone tool which gets installed on individual user’s machine and then user can play with data using programming language.

SAS Enterprise Guide:

A GUI based tool which can work as standalone or on client server model which has got some built in features for Analysis and Graphical reporting has also got support for programming. So this can be used as replacement for BASE SAS.

SAS DI Studio:

A GUI tool used for ETL solution developed using JAVA has got drag and drop features which supports rapid development and maintenance of Data Warehouse via lot many inbuilt transformations like SQL JOIN, Lookup, SCD Type2 etc. which are very common for ETL development.

SAS Web Report studio:

It is end user friendly reporting portal; where businesses users can slice and dice the data see the outputs on their side itself thereby reducing the dependency on IT.

SAS Management Console:

It is a single platform to manage the metadata which includes servers, tiers, load balancing, users, data, access control etc.

This is app is going to concentrate on the basic building block of SAS that is SAS programming.