SAS (software) - Components

Components

SAS consists of a number of components which organizations separately license and install as required.

Base SAS

The core of SAS, Base SAS Software, manages data and calls procedures. SAS procedures software analyzes and reports the data. The SQL procedure allows SQL (Structured Query Language) programming in lieu of data step and procedure programming. Library Engines allow transparent access to common data structures such as Oracle, as well as pass-through of SQL to be executed by such data structures. The Macro facility is a tool for extending and customizing SAS software programs and reducing overall program verbosity. The DATA step debugger is a programming tool that helps find logic problems in DATA step programs. The Output Delivery System (ODS) is an extendable system that delivers output in a variety of formats, such as SAS data sets, listing files, RTF, PDF, XML, or HTML. The SAS windowing environment is an interactive, graphical user interface used to run and test SAS programs.

BI Dashboard

A plugin for Information Delivery Portal. It allows the user to create various graphics that represent a broad range of data. This allows a quick glance to provide a lot of information, without having to look at all the underlying data.

Data Integration Studio

Provides extract, transform, load (ETL) services.

SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server

Includes both a suite of business intelligence (BI) tools and a platform to provide uniform access to data. The goal of this product is to compete with Business Objects and Cognos' offerings.

Enterprise Computing Offer (ECO)

Not to be confused with Enterprise Guide or Enterprise Miner, ECO is a product bundle.

Enterprise Guide

SAS Enterprise Guide is a Microsoft Windows client application that provides a guided mechanism to use SAS and publish dynamic results throughout an organization in a uniform way. It is marketed as the default interface to SAS for business analysts, statisticians, and programmers. Though Data Integration Studio is the true ETL tool of SAS, Enterprise Guide can be used for the ETL of smaller projects.

Enterprise Miner

A data mining tool.

Information Delivery Portal

Allows users to set up personalized homepages where they can view automatically generated reports, dashboards, and other SAS data structures.

Information Map Studio

A client application that helps with building information maps.

OLAP Cube Studio

A client application that helps with building OLAP Cubes.

SAS Web OLAP Viewer for Java

Web based application for viewing OLAP cubes and data explorations. (Discontinued as per Nov 2010 )

SAS Web OLAP Viewer for.NET

SAS/ACCESS

Provides the ability for SAS to transparently share data with non-native datasources.

SAS/ACCESS for PC Files

Allows SAS to transparently share data with personal computer applications including MS Access and Microsoft Office Excel.

SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

A component of the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server, is designed to provide access to data, analysis, reporting and analytics for non-technical workers (such as business analysts, power users, domain experts and decision makers) via menus and toolbars integrated into Office applications.

SAS/AF

Applications facility, a set of application development tools to create customized desktop GUI applications; a library of drag-and-drop widgets are available; widgets and models are fully object oriented; SCL programs can be attached as needed.

SAS/SCL

SAS Component Language, allows programmers to create and compile object-oriented programs. Uniquely, SAS allows objects to submit and execute Base/SAS and SAS/Macro statements.

SAS/ASSIST

Early point-and-click interface to SAS, has since been superseded by SAS Enterprise Guide and its client–server architecture.

SAS/C

SAS/CALC

Is a discontinued spreadsheet application, which came out in version 6 for mainframes and PCs, and didn't make it further.

SAS/CONNECT

Provides ability for SAS sessions on different platforms to communicate with each other.

SAS/DMI

A programming interface between interactive SAS and ISPF/PDF applications. Obsolete since version 5.

SAS/EIS

A menu-driven system for developing, running, and maintaining an enterprise information systems.

SAS/ETS

Provides Econometrics and Time Series Analysis

SAS/FSP

Allows interaction with data using integrated tools for data entry, computation, query, editing, validation, display, and retrieval.

SAS/GIS

An interactive desktop Geographic Information System for mapping applications.

SAS/GRAPH

Although base SAS includes primitive graphing capabilities, SAS/GRAPH is needed for charting on graphical media.

SAS/IML

Matrix-handling SAS script extensions.

SAS/INSIGHT

Dynamic tool for data mining — allows examination of univariate distributions, visualization of multivariate data, and model fitting using regression, analysis of variance, and the generalized linear model.

SAS/Integration Technologies

Allows the SAS System to use standard protocols, like LDAP for directory access, CORBA and Microsoft's COM/DCOM for inter-application communication, as well as message-oriented middleware like Microsoft Message Queuing and IBM WebSphere MQ. Also includes the SAS' proprietary client–server protocols used by all SAS clients.

SAS/IntrNet

Extends SAS’ data retrieval and analysis functionality to the Web with a suite of CGI and Java tools

SAS/LAB

Superseded by SAS Enterprise Guide.

SAS/OR

Operations Research

SAS/PH-Clinical

Defunct product

SAS/QC

Quality Control provides quality improvement tools.

SAS/SHARE

A data server that allows multiple users to gain simultaneous access to SAS files

SAS/SHARE*NET

Discontinued and now part of SAS/SHARE. It allowed a SAS/SHARE data server to be accessed from non-sas clients, like JDBC or ODBC compliant applications.

SAS/SPECTRAVIEW

Allows visual exploration of large amounts of data. Once the system has plotted the data in a 3D space, users can then visualise it by creating envelope surfaces, cutting planes, etc., which can be animated depending on a fourth parameter (time for example).

SAS/STAT

Statistical Analysis with a number of procedures, providing statistical information such as analysis of variance, regression, multivariate analysis, and categorical data analysis. Note for example the GLIMMIX procedure.

SAS/TOOLKIT

SAS/Warehouse Administrator

superseded in SAS 9 by SAS ETL Server.

SAS Web Report Studio

Part of the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server, provides access to query and reporting capabilities on the Web. Aimed at non-technical users.

SAS Financial Management

Budgeting, planning, financial reporting and consolidation.

SAS Activity Based Management

Cost and revenue modeling.

SAS Strategy Management (formerly Strategic Performance Management)

Collaborative scorecards.

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (SPDS)

Distributed data system offering increased performance; Data processing server.