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What is Base SAS software? Base SAS provides a scalable, integrated software environment specially designed for data access, transformation and reporting. It includes a fourth-generation programming language; ready-to-use programs for data manipulation, information storage and retrieval, descriptive statistics and report writing; and a powerful macro facility that reduces programming time and maintenance headaches.
Why is Base SAS software important? Because it runs on all major computing platforms, Base SAS provides a powerful, versatile software foundation. It significantly reduces programming and maintenance time, while enabling your IT organization to produce the analyses and reports that decision makers need in the format they prefer.
For whom is Base SAS software designed? Base SAS is used by domain experts, power users and programmers who need to manipulate data, produce and distribute ad hoc queries and reports, and/or interpret the results of data analysis.
Key Benefits
- Integrate data across environments. Based on an open, cross-platform architecture, Base SAS is hardware-agile and integrates into any computing environment infrastructure, enabling you to unify your computing efforts and get a single view of your data.
- Read, format and analyze any data. From small data issues to large complex data problems, programmers can read, format, analyze and report on data quickly, regardless of format.
- Make programming fast and easy. With an intuitive, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use programming language, Base SAS significantly reduces the amount of code required to deliver information. SAS procedures encapsulate and deliver functionality with a few simple commands, increasing your programmer's productivity.
- Simplify reporting. Base SAS provides maximum reporting flexibility. You can easily create reports in standard office formats such as Rich Text Format (RTF) and Portable Document Format (PDF), and produce graphs of analytic results automatically from statistical procedures.
- Maximize use of all computing resources. With multi-threaded capabilities, Base SAS software takes advantage of parallel processing power to maximize use of computing resources and produce the timely answers your organization demands.
Key Features
- Intuitive fourth-generation programming language. Base SAS provides a highly flexible and extensible 4GL with an easy-to-learn syntax and hundreds of language elements and functions that support programming everything from data extraction, formatting and cleansing to data analysis, reporting and information delivery.
- A rich library of prewritten, ready-to-use integrated procedures. Prewritten SAS procedures handle many common tasks, including data manipulation and management, information storage and retrieval, statistical analysis and report writing.
- Powerful data analysis tools. Base SAS can be used for a wide variety of analyses ranging from simple descriptive statistics that include mean, sum, variance and standard deviation to more advanced data correlation and cross-correlation, frequency analysis and detailed data distribution analysis.
- SAS Macro Facility.
Included as part of the SAS language, the SAS Macro Facility lets you extend and customize your SAS programs by reducing the amount of coding required for common tasks. With the macro facility, you encapsulate small or large amounts of text into units with names and then work with the names rather than the longer text.
- SAS Code Analyzer.
The SAS Code Analyzer runs an existing SAS program, executing the program as usual, while generating metadata about the SAS job that is emitted via comments. The SAS Code Analyzer can be used to capture information such as file dependencies and macro symbol usage to assist in analysis and potential modification of legacy SAS programs.
- Cross-platform and multiple platform support. With MultiVendor Architecture™, Base SAS runs on all major computing platforms, can access virtually any data source and easily integrates into any organization's computing environment.
- Support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) hardware. Key SAS procedures for sorting, querying and summarizing data are threaded, enabling them to take advantage of multi-CPU computing environments.
- SAS Open Metadata Architecture. Base SAS delivers the SAS Open Metadata Architecture, a general purpose metadata management facility that provides common metadata services to SAS and other applications. The SAS Metadata Server allows business metadata to be shared from a centralized repository, ensuring that metadata is consistent, accurate and not held in isolated, hard-to-maintain silos.
- SAS XML Mapper. Base SAS Software's XML engine exports a wide variety of XML documents. The SAS XML Mapper provides a drag-and-drop interface for creating reusable XML maps, which describe XML document content or type and tell the XML engine how to convert the document into SAS data sets, variables and observations.
- SAS Management Console. The SAS Management Console is a Java framework that provides a single interface for easier management of many SAS administrative tasks.
- Output Delivery System (ODS). The Output Delivery System for data capture, report formatting and information delivery provides an almost limitless number of choices for reporting and displaying analytical results with a wide variety of output formats and destinations.
For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the Base SAS Software fact sheet  .
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