what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction
about sas?
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Answer / venugopalreddy.m
sas is a language
sas is a Database
Sas is a warehouse
sas is a Reporting and analysis tool
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Answer / kiran
you can define sas as a statistical analysis software.
sas is a package of etl tool and reporting tool.
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sas is a package or colletion of products or tolls with
domain based functional software.
It is not a database.
sas is a statistical software
sas is a datawarehousing software
sas is a analysis and reporting software.
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Answer / sunil
SAS (pronounced "sass", originally Statistical Analysis
System) is an integrated system of software products
provided by SAS Institute that enables the programmer to
perform:
data entry, retrieval, management, and mining
report writing and graphics
statistical analysis
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
In addition, SAS has many business solutions that enable
large scale software solutions for areas such as IT
management, human resource management, financial
management, business intelligence, customer relationship
management and more.
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Answer / rakesh
sas is programming language which is used for data
retrive,manage,analyse and to genrate the reports.
sas provides wide range of solutins to the business
world.
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Answer / mythri
sas is a 4th generation programming language
sas is a datawarehouse
sas is a analysis and reporting tool
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Answer / dipti patil
SAS is a statistical analytical software. mainly used by
statistitians for analysis.
it is a good data repository (datya warehouse)
it is also used for data manipulation and reporting purpose
by sas programmers.
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Answer / pnprasad
SAS: Statistical Analysis Software, Statistical Analysis
System. It is basically 80% GUI 20% Non-GUI, means only 20%
program is required to do the tasks. Tasks like statistical
analysis used in various areas like mainly Clinical
studies,pharma, banking, finance etc.
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Answer / pradeep
SAS is a Tool which is a combination of 3 basic Features.
1..It is a Reporting Tool
2..It is an ETL Tool
3..It is also a Forecasting Tool.
Where as the Tools other than SAS
Consists of first feature eg-Cognos,BO
OR Consists of second feature eg-Informatica,Data Stage.
No other tool has the Power of Forecasting Feature.
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Answer / radhiv kumar sure
SAS IS A STASTICAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARE.
SAS IS A LANGUAGE.
SAS IS A REPORTING TOOL.
BY USING SAS WE CAN DO DATA ANALYSIS.
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