What Is SAS Enterprise Guide? SAS Enterprise Guide is an easy-to-use Windows client application that provides these features: access to much of the functionality of SAS an intuitive, visual, customizable interface transparent access to data ready-to-use tasks for analysis and reporting easy ways to export data and results to other applications scripting and automation a code editing facility When you use SAS Enterprise Guide, you are also using SAS software behind the scenes. SAS Enterprise Guide can connect to SAS on your local computer, or it can connect to SAS on another computer called a SAS server. As you access data and build tasks, SAS Enterprise Guide generates SAS code. When you run a task, the generated code is sent to SAS for processing and the results are returned to SAS Enterprise Guide. SAS Enterprise Guide also connects to a SAS Metadata Repository where information about objects is stored. The images in this tutorial show SAS Enterprise Guide connected to a remote SAS server and a SAS Metadata Repository. If you are a SAS programmer, you can use SAS Enterprise Guide to write and submit SAS programs, and you can also modify the code that SAS Enterprise Guide generates.

	You've finished the In the next topic, you start a new project and learn about the main windows that you'll use to do your work in SAS Enterprise Guide.