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)
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RE: what is diffrence between SAS tool and other tools...
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)
RE: what is diffrence between SAS tool and other tools...
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.
RE: what is diffrence between SAS tool and other tools...
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.
RE: what is diffrence between SAS tool and other tools...
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.
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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.
RE: what is diffrence between SAS tool and other tools...
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.
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