About SAS Studio

SAS Studio is a development application for SAS that you access through your web browser. With SAS Studio, you can access your data files, libraries, and existing programs, and you can write new programs. You can also use the predefined tasks in SAS Studio to generate SAS code. When you run a program or task, SAS Studio connects to a SAS server to process the SAS code. The SAS server can be a hosted server in a cloud environment, a server in your local environment, or a copy of SAS on your local machine. After the code is processed, the results are returned to SAS Studio in your browser.

SAS Studio supports multiple web browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.

In addition to writing and running your own SAS programs, you can use the predefined tasks that are included with SAS Studio to analyze your data. The tasks are based on SAS System procedures and provide access to some of the most commonly used graph and analytical procedures. You can also use the default task template to write your own tasks.

SAS Studio includes two different perspectives: the SAS Programmer perspective and the Visual Programmer perspective. A perspective is a predetermined set of features that is customized to meet the needs of a specific user type. By selecting a specific perspective, you can narrow the choices that are available in the interface and focus on the features that you need to use regularly. By default, when you open SAS Studio, the SAS Programmer perspective is selected. After you open SAS Studio, you can change the perspective by using the perspectives menu on the toolbar. For more information, see Understanding Perspectives.