Editing SAS (software) (section)

==Adoption==
According to IDC, SAS is the largest market-share holder in "advanced analytics" with 35.4 percent of the market as of 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2353618/just-how-big-is-the-big-data-market |title=Just How Big Is the Big Data Market? |publisher=ClickZ |access-date=7 July 2014|date=2014-07-07 }}</ref> It is the fifth largest market-share holder for [[business intelligence|business intelligence (BI)]] software with a 6.9% share<ref>
{{cite web
| title=Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2013–2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares
| url=http://idcdocserv.com/241689e_sas
| first=Dan
| last=Vesset |author2=David Schubmehl |author3=Brian McDonough |author4=Mary Wardley
| publisher=IDC
| date=June 2013
| access-date=October 2, 2013}}</ref> and the largest independent vendor. It competes in the BI market against [[SAP BusinessObjects]], [[IBM Cognos]], [[SPSS Modeler]], [[Oracle Hyperion]], and [[Power BI|Microsoft Power BI]].<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.bi-verdict.com/fileadmin/FreeAnalyses/consolidations.htm
| title=Consolidations in the BI industry
| date=March 7, 2008
| last=Pendse
| first=Nigel
| work=The OLAP Report
| access-date=October 24, 2012
| archive-date=July 10, 2013
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710120947/http://www.bi-verdict.com/fileadmin/FreeAnalyses/consolidations.htm
| url-status=dead
}}</ref> SAS has been named in the Gartner Leader's Quadrant for Data Integration Tools and for Business Intelligence and Analytical Platforms.<ref>
{{cite web
| title=Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms
| date=February 5, 2013
| publisher=Gartner
| url=http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1DZLPEP&ct=130207&st=sb
| access-date=October 1, 2013
| first=Kurt
| last=Schlegel |author2=Rita Sallam |author3=Daniel Yuen |author4=Joao Tapadinhas}}</ref>
A study published in 2011 in ''[[BMC Health Services Research]]'' found that SAS was used in 42.6 percent of data analyses in health service research, based on a sample of 1,139 articles drawn from three journals.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Dembe | first1 = A. E. | last2 = Partridge | first2 = J. S. | last3 = Geist | first3 = L. C. | title = Statistical software applications used in health services research: Analysis of published studies in the U.S | doi = 10.1186/1472-6963-11-252 | journal = BMC Health Services Research | volume = 11 | pages = 252 | year = 2011 | pmid =  21977990| pmc =3205033 | doi-access = free }}</ref>