Introducing SAS® Software

SAS software is used by people all over the world—in 118 countries, at over 40,000 sites, by more than 3.5 million users. SAS (pronounced sass) is both a company and software. When people say SAS, they sometimes mean the software running on their computers and sometimes mean the company.

People often ask what SAS stands for. Originally the letters S-A-S stood for Statistical Analysis System (not to be confused with Scandinavian Airlines System, San Antonio Shoemakers, or the Society for Applied Spectroscopy). SAS products have become so diverse that a few years back SAS officially dropped the name Statistical Analysis System, now outgrown, and became simply SAS.

SAS Products

The roots of SAS software reach back to the 1970s ...

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