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The History of SAS
Keith Collins
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology
Officer
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2008 Performance
$2.26 Billion in Total Revenue
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In the Beginning – mid 1960s
IBM 7090; Cost $3M; 0.5 MHz; 0.2 MB RAM
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In the Beginning – 1966
 Land grant universities
• University Statisticians Southern Experiment Stations (USSES)
− Clemson University
Auburn University
− Texas A&M University
University of Georgia
− University of Alabama
University of Tennessee
− Louisiana State University
North Carolina State
− Virginia Tech
University of Florida
− University of Kentucky
Mississippi State
− Oklahoma State University
• Funding from NIH
− to create general purpose statistical software
− Awarded to N.C. State University; Department of Statistics
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Design of the SAS System
PROC Step
DATA
Step
Data
SAS
Data Set
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PRINT
SORT
MEANS
PLOT
CORR
REGR
ANOVA
FACTOR
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Print
Output
Statistical Analysis System Vision
 Data Analysis Information Delivery
• 80% Data:
− Access
− Cleaning
− Transformations
− Management
− Storage and retrieval
• 20% Analysis
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Year of Incorporation: 1976

January 1976: SUGI 1
• 206 users, 31 papers

July 1976:
• Original Owners
− Jim Goodnight
− John Sall
− Tony Barr
− Jane Helwig
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Software Development : SAS 76
 SAS 76
• Second major release of SAS
• 70,000 source statements
• IBM mainframe – 140K
• Data enhancements
− Input/Output tape and disk files (File & Infile)
− Formats
− Programming statements
− Contents and history of SAS data sets
• Procedure Library: 33 total
• Installed at 155 sites
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SAS Campus History : 1980, Building A
 Office park with
Landmark
Engineering
 IBM 370/158
Mainframe;
3270 Terminals
 Loading Dock
 Racquetball
Court & Showers
 Landscaping?
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SAS History : 1980 – 1982
 New Products
• SAS/ETS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/FSP, SAS/IMS-DL/I
 SAS International
• 1980; First subsidiary opened in Weybridge, U.K.
• 1981; Distributor in New Zealand starts selling SAS
• 1982; Creation of SAS European Headquarters
• 1982-1983; Creation of SAS Germany, France,
Denmark
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Acquisitions and Regional Offices : 1985 – 1989+
 1985 : SYSTEM 2000 – Hierarchical Data Base
• Austin Division
 1986 : Lattice Inc. – Lattice C Compiler
• Chicago Regional Office
 1988 : Neovisuals – Graphical Cad System
• SAS Institute Inc. (Canada)
 1989 – forward : Regional offices begin opening
• Face-to-face sales replaced telesales.
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Software Development : Version 5 (1985)
 No longer Statistical Analysis System (SAS)
 Mainframe
• OS and TSO
• CMS
• VSE
command = = =>
SAS
log
 Minicomputers
• Data General AOS/VS
• Digital VAX VMS
• Prime PRIMOS
 SAS Display Manager
Windowing Facility
command = = =>
0001
0002
0003
0004
 New Products
• SAS/OR, SAS/IML, SAS/AF
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Program Editor
Software Development : Version 6
 SAS achieves hardware independence
90%
independent
PC
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MultiVendor
Architecture TM
Workstation
Servers/
Midrange
Mainframe
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10%
dependent
Super
Computer
Analytical Products
 SAS/STAT® – 1972, earlier than SAS Institute!
 SAS/ETS® – 1980
 SAS/OR® – 1982
 SAS/IML® – 1986
 SAS/QC® – 1986
 SAS® Enterprise Miner™ – 1998
 SAS® Forecast Server – 2005
… and more
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Building R
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Evolving to Meet Demand
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Portfolio Context
Industry Solutions
Business Solutions
Enterprise Intelligence Platform
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Maturity and Convergence
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Analytics Maturity Model
HIGH
Think Locally,
Act Locally.
Think Globally,
Act Locally.
Think Globally,
Act Collectively.
Automate
Decisions
Predictive Modeling
Reward
Forecasting
Collaboration
Statistical Analysis
Think Globally,
Act Globally.
Operational
Analytics
Optimization
Adhoc Discovery
LOW
REACTIVE
PROACTIVE
ALIGNED
People, Policies, Technology
Adoption
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GOVERNED
Data Governance Maturity Model
HIGH
Think Locally,
Act Locally.
Think Globally,
Act Locally.
Think Globally,
Act Collectively.
BPM Integration
Reward
CRM
ERP
Data Warehouse
SFA
Think Globally,
Act Globally.
MDM
CDI
PDM
Database Marketing
LOW
UNDISCIPLINE
REACTIVE
PROACTIVE
People,
Policies, Technology
Adoption
D
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GOVERNED
Process Maturity Model
HIGH
BAM
Simulation
Rules Engines
BPM
Optimization
CEP
Reward
Process Modeling
BPEL
Email-Driven
SOA
Process Repositories
Workflow
Manual Processes
LOW
MANAGED
REPEATABL
DEFINED
People,
Adoption
E Policies, Technology
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OPTIMIZED*
*From Carnegie Mellon’s CMM
SAS® In-Database Processing
Current
Capabilities
Future
Option
Analytic
Modeling
Analytic
Modeling
SAS
SAS
Data
SAS
Data
Scoring
SAS
Modeling
Teradata
EDW
Teradata
EDW
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SAS
Scoring
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