SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is a software package that provides data access, data management, data analysis and data presentation. It offers package products that can be used in many areas related to data analysis, data cleaning or data analytics operations.

It is normally a licensed product, but you can use it for free with the SAS University Edition for students. Installation is pretty simple. After downloading the SAS University Edition version from SAS' own site, it will be sufficient to open it via a virtual machine.

We can list the sectors where SAS is used the most as follows:

Banking

Insurance

Telecom

So why do we use SAS?

SAS basically works on large data sets. With the help of SAS software, you can perform various operations on data such as:

Data management

Statistical analysis

Report generation with excellent graphics

Business planning

Operations Research and Project Management

Quality improvement

Application development

Data extraction

Data transformation

Data update and modification.