Since this chapter introduces various SAS products, I begin by talking about SAS itself
as a company and a leader in the world of analytics.
Jim Goodnight, Jim Barr, Jane Helwig, and John Sall founded SAS in 1976 after a decade of statistical product development as a North Carolina State University project. After four decades of rapid growth, SAS commands a place at the top of the business analytics market, offering a wide suite of outstanding software, agile solutions at the cutting edge of technology, and constant improvement. Currently, SAS serves some 75,000 organizations across 139 countries, including 93 of the top 100 companies on the 2014 Fortune Global 500®. In 2014 SAS enjoyed ...