Editing SAS (software) (section)

{{Short description|Statistical software}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = SAS
| logo                   = SAS logo horiz.svg
| screenshot             =
| caption                = 
| developer              = [[SAS Institute]]
| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| released               = {{start date and age|1972}}
| latest release version = 9.4M8
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2023|01|31}}
| operating system       = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[IBM mainframe]], [[Unix]]/[[Linux]], [[OpenVMS|OpenVMS Alpha]]
| genre                  = [[Data analysis]]
| license                = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.sas.com}}
}}

'''SAS''' (previously "'''Statistical Analysis System'''")<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sas.com/en_us/company-information.html#history|title=About SAS|access-date=5 July 2017}}</ref> is a [[statistical software]] suite developed by [[SAS Institute]] for  [[data management]], advanced analytics, [[multivariate analysis]], [[business intelligence]], and [[predictive analytics]]. 

SAS was developed at [[North Carolina State University]] from 1966 until 1976, when SAS Institute was incorporated. SAS was further developed in the 1980s and 1990s with the addition of new statistical procedures, additional components and the introduction of [[JMP (statistical software)|JMP]]. A [[Point and click|point-and-click]] interface was added in version 9 in 2004. A [[social media analytics]] product was added in 2010. [[SAS Viya]], a suite of analytics and artificial intelligence software, was introduced in 2016.