SAS Education Analytic Suite Product Descriptions

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1 SAS Education Analytic Suite Product Descriptions Base SAS Software Base SAS 9.1 is the underlying, fourth generation programming language on which all new SAS applications are written. It is specifically designed to optimize data access and transformation activities needed for analytic applications and reporting. Base SAS forms the foundation language for all SAS 9 applications, tools and solutions and delivers on the promise of scalable data integration, ease of use, compatibility and efficiency that are the keys to the SAS 9 Intelligence Platform. Base SAS significantly reduces the resources needed for writing programs that gather and process data. Using its specially designed capability for data access and transformation tasks, along with hundreds of built-in functions, Base SAS can provide the tools needed for analytics and reporting. Base SAS scales well with increasing amounts of data. This capability allows users to perform their work in a timely manner. It also facilitates the full exploitation of their existing hardware. Base SAS simplifies the creation and distribution of reports. Using the Output Delivery System in Base SAS, creating reports in different formats requires only a few SAS statements. The net result is that the needs of business users can be met much easier using Base SAS. SAS/ACCESS Software SAS/ACCESS interfaces are an out of box solution that provides connectivity between SAS and other databases for data access and update. The interface communicates with the database via their client-side libraries. Through this means of communication, SAS can surface data from both local and remote database servers because all the data is treated as a local available resource, regardless of its physical location. SAS/ACCESS interfaces support two means of integration: the LIBNAME engine and the Pass-Through Facility. The LIBNAME engine provides a seamless and transparent way to surface data and requires minimal knowledge of the data and the SQL required to surface it. The SAS/ACCESS interfaces are available for the most current releases of the Database Management Systems on the most popular platforms on the market, including Personal Computers, Unix and Mainframe systems. SAS/AF Software Provides a visual, drag-and-drop GUI builder and an object-oriented applications development environment for building highly interactive and intuitive applications. By incorporating many of the concepts and tools of object-oriented programming, SAS/AF software gives you a faster, easier, more flexible approach to developing applications. Create your own graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using window elements such as graphics, icons, pull-down and pop-up menus, command buttons, scroll bars, and sliders. With GUI-based SAS/AF applications, users can point-and-click their way through a series of choices using a mouse.

2 SAS/AF software includes a programming language designed to facilitate the development of interactive applications. SAS Screen Control Language (SCL) provides the power and flexibility to build all types of applications, from simple programs that automate an end user's workload to sophisticated systems that integrate features of multiple procedures and components. SAS/ASSIST Software For many years SAS/ASSIST was the only general point-n-click interface to SAS. However, as technology has evolved and the Windows environment has become a primary interface for business users, SAS now offers Enterprise Guide as an easy to use point-n-click environment for SAS. We encourage you to explore the newer capabilities provided by Enterprise Guide. However, if you are looking for a point-n-click environment to run on the Mainframe or UNIX, then SAS/ASSIST may be the solution. SAS/ASSIST software is a menu-driven, task-oriented interface to the SAS System. It enables users of all experience levels to access the power of the SAS System quickly and easily without having to learn SAS programming statements. SAS/ASSIST enables you to perform tasks efficiently using templates and menu screens. The way each task works within SAS/ASSIST software is similar. Therefore, after you master one task, other tasks are easy to complete. SAS Bridge to ESRI The SAS Bridge for ESRI combines the power of SAS 9 with the world-leading spatial analysis and cartographic capabilities of ESRI's ArcGIS suite. With the partnered best-of-breed depth and breadth of both SAS and ESRI, organizations are better equipped to explore, understand, analyze and deliver sound spatially-enabled business intelligence. The SAS Bridge for ESRI V2.0 is a point-and-click interface between ArcGIS 9* and Base SAS 9 and provides foundational level linkage between these two Best-in-Class platforms..net classes are provided which allow users to develop their own interface and applications. The SAS Bridge for ESRI allows for the import and export of both attribute and coordinate data from point, line, polygon, and raster features from ArcGIS to SAS. * It is also compatible with ArcGIS 8.2 SAS/CONNECT Software Enables clients running the SAS System (or applications built with the SAS System) to establish communications with one or more SAS applications or programs running in remote environments on different platforms. Through support of peer-to-peer communications protocols such as APPC, either the clients or servers can initiate conversations. SAS/EIS Software An object-oriented development environment for creating and maintaining highly intuitive enterprise information systems. It offers a code-free development environment that consolidates the SAS System's capabilities for data access, management, analysis, and presentation. Capabilities include data management and consolidation, graphical drill down, variance reporting, forecasting, financial reporting, critical success factors, what-if analysis, access to external data sources and facilities, and the ability to integrate any application built using the SAS

3 System. SAS/EIS software also includes a metabase for defining attributes of EIS data sets and variables. SAS Enterprise Guide Software Enterprise Guide is a simple-to-use wizard-driven Windows application designed to enable quick and easy access to the SAS System. Everyone from business analysts to SAS programmers will benefit from the simple and intuitive interfaces that Enterprise Guide delivers. Leveraging the power of SAS across the enterprise, all from your local PC--SAS Enterprise Guide enables users to access, manage, transform, analyze, summarize and report...utilizing the highest-quality SAS graphics, and then easily publish your results. SAS/ETS Software Provides integrated capabilities for time series analysis and forecasting, econometrics and systems modeling, and financial analysis and reporting. Included are methods for accessing and manipulating time series data. SAS/ETS software accesses and converts many econometric and financial time series data supplied by government and commercial data vendors to SAS data sets. For econometrics and systems modeling, the software supports parameter estimation, simulation, and forecasting for both linear and non-linear simultaneous equation models. Financial analysis and reporting tools enable comparisons among various loan types, amortization schedules for fixed rate mortgages, and row-and-column report generation for income statements and balance sheets. SAS/FSP Software Provides easy-to-use facilities for interactive data entry, editing, browsing, retrieval, and letter writing. You can create customized data entry screens that simulate business forms; create tablelike data entry screens for quick updating; browse external files; generate personalized form letters for mail-merge applications; and create data entry applications that include cross validation of field values, table lookup capabilities, and other data manipulations. Computed fields, field protection, and hidden fields are also supported. SAS/GRAPH Software SAS/GRAPH is a software tool for people and organizations that need to examine and present data in a visual format. SAS/GRAPH software is a highly customizable, graphics tool that can be used to produce charts, plots, and maps in a variety of colors and patterns. This graphical presentation allows users to review data and spot trends, opportunities, threats and other statistical anomalies at a glance without having to understand the underlying information or numbers. Graphics components can be created, stored in catalogs, retrieved as needed, and combined with other graphics. With the interactive graphics editor, graphics output can be modified interactively without re-running the code. SAS/IML Software An Interactive Matrix Language software provides a powerful and flexible matrix programming language in a dynamic, interactive environment for programmers, statisticians, and researchers. SAS/IML provides an extensive set of functions and operators for advanced mathematical, engineering, and statistical applications. Data management, mathematical, matrix operations, graphical capabilities, and data presentation tools are built directly into the software. SAS/IML

4 software offers a rich, high-level programming language with features for arithmetic and character expressions, data input and output, control of execution, and program modularization. The type, dimension, and size of variables can change with each use. IML Workshop is part of the SAS/IML product and is available at no additional charge to sites that license SAS/IML. IML Workshop can be downloaded or ordered on CD-ROM from: SAS/INSIGHT Software A dynamic tool for data exploration and analysis - with SAS/INSIGHT you can examine univariate distributions, visualize multivariate data, and fit models using regression, analysis of variance, and the generalized linear model. In SAS/INSIGHT software, all graphs and analyses are dynamic. All graphs and analysis are linked, so changes to data in one graph or analysis show immediately in all others. You can explore data through interactive histograms, box plots, scatter plots, and 3-D rotating plots. You can examine distributions and explore correlations between variables. Principal components can be calculated and plotted in two or three dimensions to reveal the essential structure of the data. The software supports multiple regressions; analysis of variance with classification variables; and the generalized linear model which includes logistic regression, poisson regression, and other models. SAS Integration Technologies SAS Integration Technologies save time and reduce cost by providing an intelligent application environment in which data from across numerous unrelated systems can be easily gathered, stored, analyzed and distributed in a simple and timely manner. It is designed for IT managers who must quickly deliver strategic Intelligence applications to business users and keep costs down by reusing existing infrastructure and resources. SAS Integration Technologies delivers support for communicating with SAS from external applications and systems as well as support for distributing information in a proactive manner. It does all this through a comprehensive collection of industry standards and a framework for proactive information delivery. It expands the choices available for exploiting and integrating SAS Intelligence in existing enterprise architectures by delivering a comprehensive set of additional capabilities ensuring IT has the options available that they require irrespective of technology or delivery mechanism. SAS/LAB Software Provides guided (prompt-driven) data analysis for meeting the day-to-day analytical and data presentation needs of engineers and research scientists. The software provides basic methods of statistical analysis (such as analysis of variance and covariance, univariate analysis, one-way ANOVA, and linear and multiple regression.) that can be represented graphically with scatter plots, histograms, box-and-whisker plots, and contour plots. An online journal facility allows you to store text and graphical output, software-generated analysis interpretation, and personal comments. SAS/OR Software SAS/OR software is designed for people with operations research/management science or similar training who are seeking to build and solve decision guidance models. SAS/OR software provides a powerful set of management science solutions for building strategic and tactical planning models designed to identify actions that will produce the best results and/or satisfy all relevant

5 rules and restrictions. The software enhances the value of the descriptive and predictive information created elsewhere in SAS and extends the decision-making power and reach of its users. The software includes tools for project management, decision analysis, and mathematical programming. The project management tools allow you to plan, manage, and track projects through a single integrated system. These tools have extensive customization options. Other tools include procedures for analyzing decisions under uncertain and risky conditions; for solving linear, integer, mixed-integer, and nonlinear programming problems; and for exploiting problems with special structures such as assignment, transportation, and network-flow problems. SAS/QC Software SAS/QC software delivers a wide range of specialized tools that help organizations identify and understand the sources of process variation, enabling improved product quality, optimized processes and increased customer satisfaction. SAS/QC uses data from across an organization to enable users to discover root causes of problems, and goes beyond basic process control to provide more complex statistical analyses, enabling the creation of more efficient, cost-effective processes. SAS/QC software supports the entire statistical quality improvement process: understanding processes, pinpointing critical problems, establishing control and reducing variation, determining process capability, conducting GAGE R&R analysis, performing analysis of means, designing experiments to improve products, services and processes, and determining product reliability. Included with SAS/QC is the ADX Interface for the Design of Experiments, a guided point-and-click environment for managing the entire experimental design process. SAS/SECURE To provide more rigorous encryption services, SAS Institute has licensed for redistribution the encryption algorithms of RSA Data Security Inc., and provided an interface to Microsoft's CryptoAPI toolset. A form of fixed encoding is also provided with Base SAS software. Using industry-standard encryption algorithms, SAS/SECURE provides increased data security in a short period of time using proven standards that fit into existing security models. With the ability of SAS 9 to retrieve and process vast amounts of data across an enterprise it is critical that the data remain secure and SAS/Secure helps customers achieve this cost effectively without requiring proprietary knowledge or additional training. SAS/SHARE Software Enables multiple users to access, read, write, and update the same data sources concurrently. With the software, two or more users can gain concurrent access to a SAS data library, data sets in the library, or rows in the data set. The SAS server coordinates all requests to ensure maximum concurrency and security. Remote Library Services allows transparent cross-platform access to remote data, providing you with a way to locally edit remote data. SAS/STAT Software From traditional analysis of variance and predictive modeling to exact methods and statistical visualization techniques, SAS/STAT software provides tools for both specialized and enterprisewide analytical needs. A comprehensive statistical analysis tool that provides state-of-the-art

6 statistical capabilities for regression analysis, analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, multivariate analysis (including path and factor analysis), cluster analysis, survival analysis, psychometrics analysis, and non-parametric analysis. Also included are techniques for scoring and linear and nonlinear transformations of variables. SAS/TUTOR Software SAS has provided training since 1976 and we continue to be committed to delivering training that utilizes today's technology. With the rapid growth of the Internet and Web browser technology, SAS now puts training directly on your desktop with SAS OnlineTutor Software (for SAS Version 8 or SAS 9.1), requiring only a Web browser. SAS OnlineTutor: Programming for SAS Version 8 or SAS 9.1 SAS OnlineTutor consists of over 30 lessons designed to teach you how to use your SAS programming workspace and write code to access, manage, analyze, and present data the four key data-driven tasks. The content is for SAS users at the novice-to-intermediate level. This course is also beneficial as a refresher course for experienced SAS programmers who need to review their skills while on the job. SAS OnlineTutor: Advanced Programming for SAS 9.1 Extend your SAS programming skills by learning how to write more efficient programs and how to query and combine your data. This content is designed for experienced SAS programmers who want to advance their programming skills by focusing on the SAS macro language, SQL processing with SAS, and advanced programming techniques. This course is available only for organizations that are currently running SAS 9.1. Take a quick tour of the features available with SAS OnlineTutor. Be sure to review the list of course content and system requirements.