Introducing SAS Software

SAS software is used by millions of people all over the world—in over 100 countries, at over 44,000 sites. 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 several 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 when it started ...

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