Culver_lake

 Profile Answers by Culver_lake 

• Mar 19th, 2006

 

SAS works and works well by providing more features than other tools. SAS is popular because it was the first of it's kind way back in the early 70s. There was SAS and something called SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences).  I worked with both at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey and SAS was more powerful.  Even then SAS supported database interfaces and had it's own internal database system and query language despite the fact that it was all batch then (no workstations, gui, pc,interactive.....nothing but batch)

sithu

 Profile Answers by sithu 

• Mar 28th, 2006

 

Hi,

who told only SAS is the popular tool, you are going to do the business analysis depends on your business requirements you need to choose your tools, people already having SQL server the had complementary demo version of SAS, they started to build their cubes and schema, then companies they don?t want to migrate from there(b?cos migration is not a small process) they started to maintain in SAS itself, in future if they face any inflexibility defiantly they have to go to some other tool, we could not able to say any tool is the best tool, all the tools are good in different area.

Have a Great Day

Cheers,

Sithu

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nikhil

• Sep 8th, 2006

 

can you please write in a simple and readable format .

satish

• Oct 12th, 2006

 

Basicaly SAS is a ETL tool which is more power full because it is existing from the earlier 1970's and it havs loat of features such as reporting and comes under MOLAP.

www.Satishkingdom.itgo.com

 

ANIL KUMAR K

 Profile Answers by ANIL KUMAR K 

• Mar 27th, 2007

 

hi everybody.

There is a lot of difference between SAS  and othere tools.

SAS is a tool which is a combination of three basic features.

1) It is a reporting tool.
2) It is a ETL tool and
3) It is also a forecasting tool.

whereas the tools other than SAS 
     
             - consists of the first feature. eg: BUSINESS OBJECTS, COGNOS.
             - or consists of the second feature.eg: INFORMATICA.
             - or consists of the first and second features. eg: BUSINESS OBJECTS.


No other tool has the power of forecasting feature. Hence SAS is used in mostly Clinical trials and healthcare industry.

Hope you are satisfied.

Bye.
ANIL KUMAR K

mithunmca

 Profile Answers by mithunmca 

• Mar 28th, 2007

 

Hi
   The SAS system is an integrated system of software products.
   The core of the SAS system is Base SAS software.
   plz visit the following link u will get a idea of wat are the products available in sas
http://www.sas.com/.


comparing sas with bo in bo we dont have to write coding but in sas we have to write coding which is very simple.

sas has its own etl,bi tools

jag singh

• Jun 11th, 2007

 

SAS gets adopted by the business groups that do not have a large IT support staff as SAS provides the complete DW environment including ETL and reporting in one easy to manage package. See http://www.dwoptimize.com/2007/02/latest-data-warehouse-industry-trends.html for more comparisons.