Statistical Analysis System (SAS) is an integrated system of software products provided by SAS Institute Inc., which enables programmers to perform:

• Information retrieval and data management
• Report writing and graphics
• Statistical analysis, econometrics and data mining
• Business planning, forecasting, and decision support
• Operations research and project management
• Quality improvement
• Applications development
• Data warehousing (extract, transform, load)
• Platform independent and remote computing