Overview of SAS/GIS Software

Features of SAS Software

SAS provides a powerful programming language with components called procedures that allow you to perform many different kinds of analysis and data management functions, as well as produce many different types of text-based and graphical presentation output. Combined with other features, the SAS language and its procedures make an immense variety of applications possible, including the following examples:

Access raw data files and data in external databases and database management systems.
Manage data using tools for data entry, editing, retrieval, formatting, and conversion.
Analyze data using descriptive statistics, multivariate techniques, forecasting and modeling, and linear programming.
Present data using reports and business and statistical graphics.

SAS is also portable across computing environments. SAS applications function the same and produce the same results regardless of the operating environment on which you are running SAS to process your data. However, some features, such as interactive windows, are not supported on all platforms.

For more information about SAS, please refer to SAS Language Reference: Concepts.

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