SAS is a leader in business analytics. Through innovative analytics it caters to business intelpgence and data management software and services. SAS transforms data into insight which can give a fresh perspective on business.

Unpke other BI tools available in the market, SAS takes an extensive programming approach to data transformation and analysis rather than a pure drag drop and connect approach. That makes it stand out from the crowd as it gives much finer control over data manipulation. SAS has a very large number of components customized for specific industries and data analysis tasks.

Audience

This tutorial is designed for all those readers who want to read and transform raw data to produce insights for business using SAS. In addition, it will also be quite useful for those readers who would pke to become a Data Analyst or Data Scientist.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of Computer Programming terminologies. A basic understanding of any of the programming languages will help you in understanding the SAS programming concepts. Famiparity with SQL will help you learn it very fast.