SAS | The Power to Know Sign In United States Contact Us Products & Solutions Industries Support Learn Partners Connect About SAS The SAS® Platform Contact us The SAS® Platform Achieve excellence in analytics with a platform that supports diversity, enables scale and promotes trust. What is an analytics platform? An analytics platform is a software foundation that's engineered to generate insights from your data in any computing environment. Built on a strategy of using analytical insights to drive business actions, this platform supports every phase of the analytics life cycle – from data, to discovery, to deployment. Advantages of the SAS® Platform Diversity Makes analytics accessible to anyone seeking insights from data – regardless of skill or experience – via a rich interface. Easily tackles both modern and legacy data types so you can unify the data you need to generate successful actions from analytics. Handles analytical problems of any size or complexity with an extensive suite of proven methods. Executes in a cloud, on-site or hybrid environment. Deploys seamlessly to any infrastructure or application ecosystem. Adapts to the full spectrum of analytics and data challenges you face, and embraces open source technology with interfaces to consistent, governed code. Learn how SAS supports diversity by being open Scale Scales from small to exceedingly big data, in motion and at rest, at the edge and in the cloud. Provides processing power optimized for analytic workloads that is easily transferable and right-sized for both physical and virtual hardware environments. Industrializes analytics for thousands of concurrent models and simultaneous users. Gives you fast, traceable results with centralized monitoring and governance. Ensures continual insights with IT-controlled, enterprise-class analytics fortified with failover protection, infrastructure pooling and high availability. Delivers answers from complex analytics fast, taking advantage of parallel, in-memory and distributed computing environments, and a common, governed code base. Trust Integrates the entire analytics life cycle – from data, to discovery, to deployment. Delivers a traceable results path from start to finish, visible to any audit. Ensures resilience to infrastructure changes with portable code, along with built-in intelligent defaults and automated analytics tasks. Builds on the experience and expertise of more than four decades of deployments in virtually every industry, applying analytics to myriad business issues. Verifies the accuracy and validity of analytical results with a rigorous testing framework and proven domain practices. Includes security features to help guard against potential areas of vulnerability with options for passwords, data and users. Who benefits from the SAS® Platform? Business Management IT Management Why choose SAS? Scalable software based on 40-plus years of addressing the diverse needs of enterprise analytics. Trusted by the world's top organizations to produce results that make a difference. Industry-recognized leadership in advanced analytics. Innovation driven by customer needs. Continuous platform enhancements that protect investments in analytics. Market-leading analytical methods that deliver superior performance and value. SAS is named sole Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Insight Platform Suites, Q4 2016. Read report Getting Started with SAS Contact Us & General Questions Pricing, Licensing & Price Requests Request a Sales Demo Free Software Trials Training Resources Free How-To Tutorials Student & Educator Resources Customer Support Accessibility Certification SAS Notes & Samples Documentation SAS Books Training User Groups Insights & Trends Analytics Big Data Business Intelligence Data Management Fraud & Security Marketing Risk Management Quick Links Blogs Careers Customer Stories Events Webinars White Papers Videos Privacy Statement | Terms of Use | © SAS Institute Inc. All Rights Reserved Back to Top