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123-460: 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 . A point-and-click interface was added in version 9 in 2004. A social media analytics product was added in 2010. SAS is a software suite that can mine , alter, manage and retrieve data from

246-427: A land-grant college under the name "North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts," or "North Carolina A&M" for short. In the segregated system, it was open only to white students. As a land-grant college, North Carolina A&M would provide a liberal and practical education while focusing on military tactics, agriculture, and the mechanical arts without excluding classical studies . Since its founding,

369-609: A land-grant college . The college underwent several name changes and officially became North Carolina State University at Raleigh in 1965. However, by longstanding convention, the "at Raleigh" portion is usually omitted. Today, NC State has an enrollment of more than 35,000 students, making it among the largest in the country. NC State has historical strengths in engineering , statistics , agriculture , life sciences , textiles , and design and offers bachelor's degrees in 106 fields of study. The graduate school offers master's degrees in 104 fields, doctoral degrees in 61 fields, and

492-466: A wholly owned subsidiary of SAS Institute, having previously been a business unit of the company. SAS 6 was used throughout the 1990s and was available on a wider range of operating systems, including Macintosh , OS/2 , Silicon Graphics , and PRIMOS . SAS introduced new features through dot-releases. From 6.06 to 6.09, a user interface based on the Windows paradigm was introduced and support for SQL

615-610: A $ 1.4 billion endowment. It is the largest university in the state and one of the anchors of North Carolina's Research Triangle , together with Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In 2009, NCSU canceled a planned appearance by the Dalai Lama to speak on its Raleigh campus, citing concerns about a Chinese backlash and a shortage of time and resources. NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center, in D.H. Hill Library , maintains

738-520: A 36.2 percent share and the fifth largest for business intelligence software with a 6.9 percent share. SAS typically sells its software with an emphasis on subscription models that include support and updates, as opposed to software licenses. Under its subsidiary, JMP Statistical Discovery LLC, SAS Institute also sells the JMP suite of statistical analysis software, which consists of JMP, JMP Pro, JMP Clinical and JMP Genomics. The SAS certification program

861-415: A Base SAS component that performs analytical functions and more than 200 other modules that add graphics, spreadsheets or other features. Some of the uses for SAS' software include analyzing financial transactions for indications of fraud, optimizing prices for retailers, or evaluating the results of clinical trials. As of 2012, SAS is the largest market-share holder in the advanced analytics segment with

984-669: A Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. NC State athletic teams are known as the Wolfpack . The name was unofficially adopted in 1921 following an unsigned letter to the NC State Alumni News suggesting the moniker "Wolf Pack". They compete in NCAA Division I and have won ten national championships: four NCAA championships, two AIAW championships, and four titles under other sanctioning bodies. The North Carolina General Assembly founded NC State on March 7, 1887, as

1107-518: A commitment to reduce its annual energy consumption per square foot by at least 4% over a 10-year period. In addition, the university has surpassed the Executive Order 156 goal of diverting 40 percent of their solid waste stream from the landfill through a variety of campus reuse and recycling programs. NC State incorporates locally grown, organic, and free range foods into dining service meals at several events such as Earth Week's EarthFest and

1230-500: A complete macro language, array subscripts, and a full-screen interactive user interface called Display Manager. In 1985, SAS was rewritten in the C programming language . This enabled the SAS' MultiVendor Architecture which allows the software to run on UNIX , MS-DOS , and Windows . It was previously written in PL/I , Fortran , and assembly language . In the 1980s and 1990s, SAS released

1353-594: A descriptor and a value. PROC statements call upon named procedures. Procedures perform analysis and reporting on data sets to produce statistics, analyses, and graphics. There are more than 300 named procedures and each one performs a substantial body of statistical work. PROC statements can also display results, sort data or perform other operations. SAS macros are pieces of code or variables that are coded once and referenced to perform repetitive tasks. SAS data can be published in HTML, PDF, Excel, RTF and other formats using

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1476-401: A forested area of Cary, North Carolina in 1980. Later that year, it began providing on-site daycare in order to keep an employee who had planned to leave her job to care for her child at home. By 1984, SAS had expanded the benefits programs it offered to employees and their families, and begun building a fitness center, medical center, on-site cafe and other facilities. SAS became known as

1599-592: A further architectural revamp in Viya 4 containerized the software. SAS sells Viya alongside SAS 9.4, and has not positioned it as a replacement for SAS 9.4. In 2023, two new software as a service (SaaS) modules for SAS Viya were released as a private preview: Workbench, for use in creating AI models, and App Factory, for use in creating AI applications. Both modules support multiple programming languages and are expected to become generally available in 2024. SAS Viya also became available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace under

1722-663: A good place to work and was frequently recognized by national magazines like BusinessWeek , Working Mother and Fortune for its work environment. The company began its relationship with Microsoft and development for Windows operating systems in 1989. Shortly afterwards it established partnerships with database companies like Oracle , Sybase and Informix . During the 1980s, SAS was one of Inc. Magazine 's fastest growing companies in America from 1979 and 1985. It grew more than ten percent per year from $ 10 million in revenues in 1980 to $ 1.1 billion by 2000. In 2007, SAS revenue

1845-467: A limited corporate hierarchy and an egalitarian culture. As the company grew it created new divisions, instead of layers of management, creating a flat , simple organizational structure. According to professor Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford, there are only three levels in the organization and CEO James Goodnight has 27 people who directly report to him. The organizational structure is fluid and employees can change roles rapidly. Managers are involved in

1968-637: A major downtown artery. University Housing divides Main Campus into West, Central, and East Campus for residence hall purposes. West and Central campuses are divided by Dan Allen Drive, while Central and East are divided by Morill Drive and Reynolds Coliseum . Architecturally, Main Campus is known for its distinctive red brick buildings. Brick statues dot the landscape, and the University Plaza , colloquially named "The Brickyard", in North Campus

2091-409: A model that can track the health and migratory patterns of species such as sea turtles and hammerhead sharks , as well as the health of the phytoplankton population. SAS' risk management and fraud prevention software are widely used by governmental organizations and private enterprises. The company's fraud detection and prevention software is used by the tax agencies of various countries, including

2214-607: A number of components to complement Base SAS. SAS/GRAPH, which produces graphics, was released in 1980, as well as the SAS/ETS component, which supports econometric and time series analysis. A component intended for pharmaceutical users, SAS/PH-Clinical, was released in the 1990s. The Food and Drug Administration standardized on using SAS/PH-Clinical for new drug applications in 2002. Vertical products like SAS Financial Management and SAS Human Capital Management (then called CFO Vision and HR Vision respectively) were also introduced. JMP

2337-535: A partnership with Teradata and EMC Greenplum . In 2011, the company released SAS Enterprise Miner 7.1. The company introduced 27 data management products from October 2013 to October 2014 and updates to 160 others. At the SAS Global Forum 2015, SAS announced several new products that were specialized for different industries, as well as new training software. The company has invested in the development of artificial general intelligence, or "strong AI", with

2460-474: A pay-as-you-use model in 2023. In 2023, the company introduced SAS Health, a common health data model built on the SAS Viya platform. According to IDC, SAS is the largest market-share holder in "advanced analytics" with 35.4 percent of the market as of 2013. It is the fifth largest market-share holder for business intelligence (BI) software with a 6.9% share and the largest independent vendor. It competes in

2583-400: A recreation and fitness center as well as life counseling services. It also hosts a summer camp for children and operates on-site cafeterias and cafes. 22.5 tons of M&Ms are provided each year, in jars that are re-filled every Wednesday. Similar amenities are provided at its other offices besides its headquarters. 95 percent of a company's assets drive out the front gate every night,

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2706-521: A research and education organization devoted to research involving food crops, like fruits and vegetables, and the potential health-promoting properties they convey when consumed. NC State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences staffs the institute with faculty from the departments of horticultural science; food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences; plant and microbial biology; genetics; and agricultural and resource economics. PHHI has both research and Cooperative Extension components. Mary Ann Lila

2829-474: A sample of 1,139 articles drawn from three journals. SAS' analytical software is used in education to measure and visualize student outcomes and growth trends. Several states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Missouri, and North Dakota use its software to measure and analyze learning loss and learning recovery in students. SAS' analytical software is widely used in the petroleum and natural gas industry as well as global manufacturing. SAS and

2952-445: A statistical analysis system, in fact SAS originally stood for " Statistical Analysis System ", though it is no longer considered an acronym. It was originally used primarily by agricultural departments at universities in the late 1960s. It became an independent, private business led by current CEO James Goodnight and three other project leaders from the university in 1976. SAS is one of the largest privately held software providers in

3075-1062: A suite of analytical products related to health care and life sciences. In May 2014, SAS announced the launch of SAS University Edition. This offering could be downloaded free for non-commercial use. In 2022, the SAS University Edition was replaced by two entirely web-based versions: SAS OnDemand for Academics and SAS Viya for Learners. In a 2005 article for the Journal of Marriage and Family comparing statistical packages from SAS and its competitors Stata and SPSS , Alan C. Acock wrote that SAS programs provide "extraordinary range of data analysis and data management tasks," but were difficult to learn and use. SPSS and Stata, meanwhile, were both easier to learn but had less capable analytic abilities, though these could be expanded with paid (in SPSS) or free (in Stata) add-ons. Acock concluded that SAS

3198-429: A third of the campus, while the remaining acreage is mostly green spaces and bodies of water which are accessible by trails. SAS offers on-site day care services to its employees for 850 children for about a third of the normal cost. Medical services are provided to employees and their families for free and 80% of the cost is covered for specialists. Employees are encouraged to work 35-hour weeks and have free access to

3321-419: A tool for social media monitoring, engagement and sentiment analysis , was also released that year. SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler (RPM), which creates basic analytical models using Microsoft Excel , was introduced the same year. In 2010, JMP 9 included a new interface for using the R programming language and an add-in for MS Excel. The following year, a High Performance Computing platform was made available in

3444-467: A variety of sources and perform statistical analysis on it. SAS provides a graphical point-and-click user interface for non-technical users and more through the SAS language . SAS programs have DATA steps, which retrieve and manipulate data, PROC (procedures) which analyze the data, and may also have functions. Each step consists of a series of statements. The DATA step has executable statements that result in

3567-545: A way to advertise events going on around campus. In 2008, racist and threatening graffiti in the tunnel directed at then President-elect Barack Obama prompted an investigation from the United States Secret Service . Students held a "Unity Rally" in response to denounce the acts of racism. The Wolfline bus service connects points on the campuses with each other. It also provides transportation to collegiate athletic events. NC State's main campus

3690-498: A website devoted to NC State history entitled Historical State . In October 2023, Polychlorinated biphenyl was detected in Poe Hall. Poe Hall was immediately closed to the public. The Campus Community Alliance for Environment Justice, a student-led coalition, was formed to petition the college for increased transparency. NC State's Main Campus has three sub-campuses: North Campus, Central Campus, and South Campus. North Campus

3813-714: Is 115 feet (35 m) tall. As a tradition, the Belltower is lit in red at night immediately following athletic victories and certain academic achievements. The Court of North Carolina , just west of the Memorial Belltower, is surrounded by the 1911 Building; the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tompkins, Caldwell, Winston Halls and The College of Education in Poe Hall; Page Hall, home to College of Engineering offices; and Leazar Hall, former location of

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3936-484: Is also a SAS Enterprise Risk Management product-set designed primarily for banks and financial services organizations. SAS products for monitoring and managing the operations of IT systems are collectively referred to as SAS IT Management Solutions. SAS collects data from various IT assets on performance and utilization, then creates reports and analyses. SAS's Performance Management products consolidate and provide graphical displays for key performance indicators (KPIs) at

4059-564: Is also home to the only college dedicated to textiles in the country, the Wilson College of Textiles, which is a partner of the National Council of Textile Organizations and is widely regarded as one of the best textiles programs in the world. In 2020 the textile engineering program was ranked 1st nationally by College Factual. In 2017, Business of Fashion Magazine ranked the college's fashion and apparel design program 8th in

4182-532: Is an American multinational developer of analytics and artificial intelligence software based in Cary, North Carolina . SAS develops and markets a suite of analytics software ( also called SAS ), which helps access, manage, analyze and report on data to aid in decision-making. The company's software is used by most of the Fortune 500. SAS Institute started as a project at North Carolina State University to create

4305-487: Is augmented by the 1,334-acre (5.4 km ) mixed-use Centennial Campus. Located 1 mi (1.6 km) south of the Memorial Tower, this campus houses university, corporate, and government research, in addition to classrooms and non-student residences. The Wilson College of Textiles has been based on this campus since 1991. Beginning in 2002, the College of Engineering began to relocate to Centennial Campus. Six of

4428-642: Is director of the Plants for Human Health Institute. As of February 2024, PHHI is home to around 11 faculty and 70 staff at the NC Research Campus. NC State began operations in Kannapolis in 2007 as the Fruit and Vegetable Science Institute. The university was one of the first organizations to join the fledgling biotech hub that would become the NC Research Campus. The university's program was renamed

4551-409: Is housed in the adjacent Lee Residence Hall. Members of EcoVillage complete numerous volunteer based sustainability trips every semester and attend various discussions about how to improve and further the university's reach into sustainability. NC State is one of 17 institutions that constitute the University of North Carolina system. Each campus has a high degree of independence, but each submits to

4674-402: Is known for its programs in agriculture, engineering, textiles, and design. The textile and paper engineering programs are notable, given the uniqueness of the subject area. As of the 2018–2019 school year , NC State had the following colleges and academic departments: Considered a more selective university, NC State accepts about half of those who apply for undergraduate admission. For

4797-699: Is located 2.5 mi (4.0 km) west of the NCSU Memorial Tower. North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine , NC State's professional college and North Carolina's only veterinary medicine program, serves as the anchor of the Biomedical Campus. The 180-acre (0.73 km ) campus consists of 20 buildings including the 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m ) CVM Research Building where biomedical investigations in genomic sciences; vaccine development; cancer immuno-therapy; emerging and infectious zoonotic diseases; and diseases of

4920-631: Is nicknamed for its paving material; most sidewalks are also made from brick. The Brickyard and sidewalks also contain white brick mosaics of the athletics logo and other patterns. The Memorial Belltower , located in the Northeast corner of North Campus, serves as the signature of NC State and appears in the NC State Chancellor's Seal. It was constructed as a monument to alumni killed in World War I. The granite tower, completed in 1937,

5043-606: Is over nine stories tall and covers over 119,000 square feet. This library is on North Main Campus in the center of University Plaza, or often called "The Brickyard" and is 11,000 square meters. The James B. Hunt Jr. Library , on the university's Centennial Campus , opened in January 2013 and covers over 221,000 square feet. NC State, as a member of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), has interlibrary loan services with Duke University ,

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5166-689: Is ranked 10th internationally among undergraduate programs by The Princeton Review in 2020. For 2010 the Wall Street Journal surveyed recruiters and ranked NC State number 19 among the top 25 recruiter picks. In 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Department of Statistics 11th (tied) in the nation. In fiscal year 2019, NC State University received 95 awards and $ 29,381,782 in National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funds for Research. For fiscal year 2017, NC State

5289-666: Is the oldest part of NC State and is home to most academic departments and a few residence halls. Central Campus is mainly residence halls, cafeterias, gymnasiums and student support facilities. Finally, Greek Court, the McKimmon Conference and Training Center, and student park-and-ride areas are found on South Campus. North and Central Campus are separated by the North Carolina Railroad . Pedestrian tunnels allow students to commute between campuses. Central and South Campuses are separated by Western Boulevard,

5412-647: Is the only college to offer associate degrees and the College of Veterinary Medicine does not grant undergraduate degrees. Each college is composed of numerous departments that focus on a particular discipline or degree program, for example Food Science , Civil Engineering , Genetics or Accounting . There are a total of 66 departments administered by all eleven NC State colleges. In total, NC State offers nine associate degree programs in agriculture, bachelor's degrees in 102 areas of study, master's degrees in 108 areas, and doctorate degrees in 60 areas. NC State

5535-399: Is where the second leg of growth of SAS over the next 50 years is going to be." SAS Institute has grown in revenue each year since it was incorporated in 1976. It had a revenue of $ 3.2 billion in 2022. About 20-30% of the company's revenues are spent on research and development , which is the highest ratio among software companies of its size. In 1994, Computerworld found that out of

5658-779: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Black Dog Institute . SAS has been a partner of the Cleveland Clinic since 1982. During the COVID-19 pandemic , the clinic used predictive models developed by SAS to forecast factors such as patient volume, availability of medical equipment and bed capacity in various scenarios. SAS joined UNC Chapel Hill's Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READDI) in 2021. Duke Health partnered with SAS in 2023 to develop cloud-based artificial intelligence that can analyze patterns in health equity and patient outcomes. In 2023,

5781-609: The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis launched an app that crowdsources image data related to deforestation to train AI algorithms that  can identify human impact on the environment. The University of Florida 's Center for Coastal Solutions partners with SAS to develop research, training programs and analytical tools related to environmental issues affecting coastal communities. The UNC Center for Galapagos Studies partnered with SAS in 2023 to create

5904-535: The Texas state government contracted SAS to build a centralized visualization platform for predicting and tracking future outbreaks of influenza . North Carolina State University North Carolina State University ( NC State , North Carolina State , NC State University , or NCSU ) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina , United States. Founded in 1887 and part of

6027-645: The University Statisticians of the Southern Experiment Stations . By 1976, the software had 100 customers and that year, 300 people attended the first SAS user conference in Kissimmee, Florida. Goodnight, Barr, Sall and another early participant, Jane Helwig, founded SAS Institute Inc. as a private company on July 1, 1976, in offices across the street from the university. Barr and Helwig later sold their interest in

6150-647: The University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas . The university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle together with Duke University in Durham and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The North Carolina General Assembly established North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts on March 7, 1887, as

6273-500: The University of North Carolina , the Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro ), and NC State. This conglomeration became the University of North Carolina in 1931. In 1937, Blake R. Van Leer joined as Dean and started the graduate program for engineering, among numerous other programs. In 1942, Van Leer successfully encouraged NC State's first women to pursue an engineering degree, 4-5 women would enroll and

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6396-526: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and North Carolina Central University . In 2014–2015 NC State became part of only fifty-four institutions in the U.S. to have earned the "Innovation and Economic Prosperity University" designation by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities . For 2020, U.S. News & World Report ranks NC State tied for 84th out of all national universities and tied for 34th out of public universities in

6519-640: The Academic Ranking of World Universities. In 2020, NC State's College of Design was ranked 25th by College Factual. In 2018, the Animation Career Review ranked NC State's Graphic Design program 4th in the country and best among public universities. In 2020, the College of Education tied for 45th in the U.S. and the Poole College of Management is tied for 52nd among business schools. NC State's Entrepreneurship program

6642-603: The BI market against SAP BusinessObjects , IBM Cognos , SPSS Modeler , Oracle Hyperion , and Microsoft Power BI . SAS has been named in the Gartner Leader's Quadrant for Data Integration Tools and for Business Intelligence and Analytical Platforms. 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

6765-448: The CEO must see to it that they return the following day. SAS spokespeople say its employee benefits are provided for business, not altruistic, reasons. The company evaluates new benefits using three criteria: whether it would benefit the company culture, whether it would serve a significant number of employees and whether it would save more money than is spent on it. According to academics,

6888-611: The Computer Science Teaching Labs. It was once home to 100 trees (one for every county in North Carolina ), but damage caused by Hurricane Fran in 1996 reduced the number significantly, including the destruction of a particularly old and large tree which was some 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter. Some replanting has occurred, but the Court's former appearance is far from being restored. Southwest of

7011-475: The Court of North Carolina is another landmark, the Free Expression Tunnel . The Tunnel functions as one of three pedestrian tunnels underneath the railroad tracks separating North Campus and Central Campus. This particular tunnel is the site of sanctioned graffiti ; anyone may paint there, and it is often the place for political statements, personal messages, and art. This tunnel also serves as

7134-627: The Institute for Advanced Analytics is the university's most selective graduate program accepting around one-in-eight applicants. NCSU Libraries, ranked 38th out of 115 North American research libraries, includes 4.4 million volumes, over 50,000 print and electronic serial subscriptions, more than 20,000 videos and film holdings, and more than 40,000 digital images (as of 2011). The library system has an annual budget of over $ 29 million and consists of five libraries, two main libraries and three branch libraries. The D. H. Hill Library , on Main Campus ,

7257-691: The Output Delivery System, which was first introduced in 2007. SAS Enterprise Guide is SAS's point-and-click interface. It generates code to manipulate data or perform analysis without the use of the SAS programming language. The SAS software suite has more than 200 add-on packages, sometimes called components Some of these SAS components, i.e. add on packages to Base SAS include: The development of SAS started in 1966 after North Carolina State University re-hired Anthony Barr to program his analysis of variance and regression software so that it would run on IBM System/360 computers. The project

7380-600: The Plants for Human Health Institute when the NC Research Campus was officially dedicated on October 20, 2008, in order "to more accurately reflect the groundbreaking research approach the institute will take. Institute research will focus on identifying and making available to consumers bioactive compounds in plants that prevent and treat disease." In March 2008, NC State launched the University Sustainability Office in order to address environmental concerns on campus. The university has established

7503-692: The SAS Fraud Framework. The framework's primary functionality is to monitor transactions across different applications, networks and partners and use analytics to identify anomalies that are indicative of fraud. This software uses artificial intelligence to monitor income and assets. The SAS Asset and Liability Management platform utilizes generative AI and machine learning to monitor risk and model risk management strategies. SAS Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager provides risk modeling, scenario analysis, and other functions in order to manage and visualize risk, compliance and corporate policies. There

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7626-679: The School of Design in 1948), the School of Education in 1948, and the School of Forestry in 1950. In the summer of 1956, following the US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that segregated public education was unconstitutional, North Carolina State College enrolled its first African-American undergraduates, Ed Carson, Manuel Crockett, Irwin Holmes, and Walter Holmes. In 1962, State College officials desired to change

7749-658: The U.S., tied at 31st for "most innovative" and 69th for "best value" schools. NC State's College of Engineering was tied for 24th by U.S. News & World Report , with many of its programs ranking in the top 30 nationally. NC State's Nuclear Engineering program is considered to be one of the best in the world and in 2020, was ranked 3rd in the country (behind MIT and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor). The biological and agricultural engineering programs are also widely recognized and were ranked 4th nationally. In 2019 NC State's manufacturing and industrial engineering program

7872-606: The US and 6,900 in Europe, Asia, Canada or Latin America. CEO James Goodnight owns about two-thirds of the company and co-founder John Sall owns the other one-third. In 2022, the company was included on Forbes ' list of the largest private companies in the United States, ranked by revenue. It was one of the largest privately held software providers in the world in 2023. SAS is well known for its workplace culture. The company

7995-577: The US. The company was No. 1 on Fortune's US list in 2010 and 2011. In 2015, Fortune ranked SAS No. 4 on its annual list of best companies to work for in the US; in 2016, SAS was No. 8 on the same list. It is also regularly in Working Mother Magazine's "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" list. The SAS headquarters in Cary is situated on a 900-acre campus with various on-site services and amenities for employees. Buildings comprise about

8118-525: The United States, United Kingdom , Ireland , New Zealand , the Netherlands , and Canada . In 2023, the Finance Minister of Malta announced that Malta would begin using SAS' software to detect tax evasion. SAS develops data analysis and machine learning techniques that are widely applied in healthcare, medical research and life sciences. SAS has partnered on public health initiatives with

8241-540: The Watt Family Innovation Center at Clemson University , providing funding, access to software, and research. It develops, supports and markets a suite of analytics software also called SAS (statistical analysis system), which captures, stores, modifies, analyzes and presents data. The SAS system and SAS programming language are used by most of the Fortune 500 . The SAS software includes

8364-851: The annual All Carolinas Meal with foods local to the Carolinas. Examinations of the campus' sustainability practices by the Sustainable Endowments Institute resulted in a "B+" grade for NC State on the College Sustainability Report Card 2011. In 2013 the University Housing department agreed to incorporate a new living and learning community known as "EcoVillage." Members of EcoVillage were originally housed in Bragaw Residence Hall on West Campus. Today, EcoVillage

8487-434: The appearance of data. In 1979, SAS 79 added support for the IBM VM/ CMS operating system and introduced the DATASETS procedure. Three years later, SAS 82 introduced an early macro language and the APPEND procedure. Beginning with SAS 4, released in 1984, SAS releases have followed a sequential naming convention not based on year of release. SAS version 4 had limited features, but made SAS more accessible. Version 5 introduced

8610-434: The board of trustees as a voting member. The UNC system also elects the chancellor of NC State, currently Randy Woodson. The board of trustees administers NC State's eleven academic colleges . Each college grants its own degrees with the exception of the First Year College which provides incoming freshmen the opportunity to experience several disciplines before selecting a major. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

8733-410: The case was discussed in Oracle v. Google SAS introduced its first reseller program intended to grow sales with small to medium-sized businesses in 2006. Leading up to 2007, SAS provided funding and curriculum assistance to help start the Master of Science in Analytics program at nearby North Carolina State University . The company's cloud-based products grew in revenues by 35 percent in 2014 and

8856-420: The class of 2019, 21,104 applied and 10,584, or 50%, were accepted, of whom 4,210 enrolled. Members of the class of 2019 had average SAT verbal, math and writing scores of 610, 640 and 587, respectively, for a two-part total (verbal and math) of 1250 (1600-point scale) or a three-part total of 1836 (2400-point scale). The 4,210 students who enrolled had an average high school GPA of 3.44; 40%, or 1,677, ranked in

8979-561: The cloud with Microsoft Azure . This partnership has also facilitated co-engineering between the companies in the areas of generative AI and data management, such as integration between OpenAI and SAS' analytical systems. SAS also partnered with TMA Solutions in 2020, with the latter consulting on AI adoption. That year, SAS launched the SAS Software Certified Young Professionals in collaboration with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation with

9102-513: The company announced its expansion of research into the applications of generative AI in analytics, data management and modeling. SAS had many releases since 1972. Since release 9.3, SAS/STAT has its own release numbering. As of 2011, SAS's largest set of products was its line for customer intelligence . Numerous SAS modules for web, social media and marketing analytics may be used to profile customers and prospects, predict their behaviors and manage and optimize communications. SAS also provides

9225-410: The company had invested between $ 50 million and $ 60 million into internal preparations for its IPO , which was estimated to take place in 2025. In May 2023, SAS announced its intentions to invest an additional $ 1 billion into AI applications for the banking, healthcare, and insurance industries over the next three years. The company's chief technology officer Bryan Harris stated that "[we] think this

9348-481: The company's practices improve the loyalty, focus and creativity of its staff. Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer from the Stanford Graduate School of Business estimated that the company saves $ 60–$ 80 million annually in expenses related to employee turnover. SAS has an annual employee turnover of three to five percent, while the software industry's average is 20 to 25 percent. According to USA Today ,

9471-521: The company. During its first year of operation, SAS adopted a tradition of polling users for suggestions to improve the software through the SASware Ballot. Many of the company's employee perks, such as fresh fruit, reasonable work hours and free M&M's every Wednesday became part of its practices that first year. In the late 1970s, the company established its first marketing department. SAS started building its current headquarters in

9594-575: The construction of Building Q was completed late that year to house its corresponding operations. In March 2014, SAS launched its SAS Analytics U initiative to provide free foundational technologies and support to teachers and students. In 2019, SAS announced that it was investing $ 1 billion into further artificial intelligence R&D, as part of a broader push to develop software in the fields of machine learning , deep learning , computer vision and natural language processing . The investment will also fund related initiatives such as acquisitions and

9717-406: The country and 30th in the world. In 2018, Fashion Schools ranked the college's fashion and textile management program 11th in the nation. NC State's Masters program in data analytics was the first in the United States. Launched in 2007, it is part of the Institute for Advanced Analytics and was created as a university-wide multidisciplinary initiative to meet the rapidly growing demand in

9840-414: The creation of education programs to teach the public about the applications of AI. That year, SAS partnered with Nvidia to produce offerings related to AI and deep learning. Under that partnership, Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) and CUDA -X AI acceleration libraries will support SAS' AI applications and models. SAS partnered with Microsoft in 2020 to allow users to run their SAS workloads in

9963-420: The day-to-day work with their employees. Employees are given a large extent of autonomy and developers are encouraged to pursue experimental product ideas. Input from customers guides the company's marketing and software development. According to SAS, 80 percent of suggestions for product improvements are incorporated into the software. The dress code is informal. According to Fast Company , employees describe

10086-449: The downturn and hired aggressively to take advantage of available staff. In 2009, SAS filed a lawsuit against World Programming Ltd., alleging World Programming System —a software product designed to use the features of the SAS language—violated their copyright as it was reverse engineered from the functionality of SAS Learning Edition. The European Court of Justice ruled that functionality and language elements were not protected and

10209-489: The employee, department and organizational level. The SAS Supply Chain Intelligence product suite is offered for supply chain needs, such as forecasting product demand, managing distribution and inventory and optimizing pricing. There is also a "SAS for Sustainability Management" set of software to forecast environmental, social and economic effects and identify causal relationships between operations and their impact on

10332-416: The environment as "relaxed." Employees are encouraged to do volunteer work and the company makes donation to non-profits where employees are involved. The company primarily focuses its philanthropic efforts on improving education. It funds pilot programs for new education models, donates laptops and provides free online software for classrooms called Curriculum Pathways. The company is a founding partner of

10455-419: The environment or ecosystem. SAS has various analytical tools related to risk management . The SAS Asset and Liability Management platform utilizes generative AI and machine learning to monitor risk and model risk management strategies. SAS has products for specific industries, such as government, retail, telecommunications, aerospace, marketing optimization, and high-performance computing . The company has

10578-531: The first women graduated in 1941. One of his students Katharine Stinson became the Federal Aviation Administration 's first female engineer. Following World War II, the university grew and developed. The G.I. Bill enabled thousands of veterans to attend college, and enrollment shot past the 5,000 mark in 1947. State College created new academic programs, including the School of Architecture and Landscape Design in 1947 (renamed as

10701-494: The full name implies that there is another branch of the university elsewhere in the state. In 1966, single-year enrollment reached 10,000. In the 1970s enrollment surpassed 19,000 and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences was added. Celebrating its centennial in 1987, NC State reorganized its internal structure, renaming all its schools to colleges (e.g. School of Engineering to the College of Engineering ). Also in this year, it gained 700 acres (2.8 km ) of land that

10824-488: The goal of advancing deep learning and natural language processing to the point of achieving cognitive computing. In 2019, SAS announced that it would be investing $ 1 billion into the development of advanced artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing and machine learning . It announced an additional $ 1 billion investment into these areas in 2023, particularly for industries such as finance, insurance, government, health care and energy. In September 2023,

10947-503: The goal of training 500 students in programming, machine learning and analytics through online courses. In July 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that the semiconductor giant Broadcom was in talks to acquire SAS. In a July 13, 2021 email, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight stated that the company was not for sale. In July 2021, SAS announced that it was preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). As of September 2023,

11070-554: The individual college must also agree to accept the student. Because of this process, some colleges have significantly higher admission requirements than others. The Graduate School reviews all postgraduate education applications. For fall 2015, 14,394 prospective students applied to the Graduate School; 3,460 (24%) were admitted. Of these, 2,982 (80.3%) enrolled. The Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) degree awarded by

11193-488: The institution's name to North Carolina State University. Consolidated university administrators approved a change to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, frustrating many students and alumni who protested the change with letter writing campaigns. In 1963, State College officially became North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina. Students, faculty, and alumni continued to express dissatisfaction with this name; however, after two additional years of protest,

11316-554: The labor market for analytics professionals. In 2012, Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil highlighted the MSA program in Harvard Business Review as one of only a few sources of talent with proven strengths in data science. NC State is known for its College of Veterinary Medicine and in 2020 it was ranked 4th nationally, by U.S. News & World Report , 25th internationally by NTU Ranking and 36th internationally by

11439-576: The lung, respiratory tract , skin, and digestive system are undertaken. The Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, the Veterinary Teaching Hospital with its clinical research and clinical trials, and the Teaching Animal Unit (TAU), which is a working farm, are also campus elements. The 110,000-square-foot Randall B. Terry Jr. Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center, completed in 2011, doubled

11562-535: The main elements of SAS programming, such as the DATA step and the most common procedures, i.e. PROCs. The following year a full version was released as SAS 72, which introduced the MERGE statement and added features for handling missing data or combining data sets. The development of SAS has been described as an " inflection point " in the history of artificial intelligence . In 1976, Barr, Goodnight, Sall, and Helwig removed

11685-475: The name was changed to the current official name, North Carolina State University at Raleigh. However, by longstanding convention, the "at Raleigh" portion is omitted even in official documents such as diplomas, and in practice the institution's name is simply "North Carolina State University"; "NC State University" is also accepted on first reference in news stories. Indeed, school officials have long discouraged using "at Raleigh" except when absolutely necessary, as

11808-718: The nine College of Engineering departments are housed in three Engineering Buildings in an area known as the Engineering Oval. The Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC), part of the College of Engineering, is located adjacent to the Engineering Oval. The offices of ABB , LexisNexis and the National Weather Service are also on the Centennial Campus, as well as Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School . The North Carolina State University Centennial Biomedical Campus

11931-597: The policies of the UNC system board of governors. The 32 voting members of the board of governors are elected by the North Carolina General Assembly for four-year terms. President Peter Hans heads the system. The board of trustees of NC State has thirteen members and sets all policies for the university. The UNC system board of governors elects eight of the trustees and the governor of North Carolina appoints four. The student body president serves on

12054-589: The project from North Carolina State and incorporated it as the SAS Institute, Inc. SAS was redesigned in SAS 76. The INPUT and INFILE statements were improved so they could read most data formats used by IBM mainframes. Generating reports was also added through the PUT and FILE statements. The ability to analyze general linear models was also added as was the FORMAT procedure, which allowed developers to customize

12177-424: The project lost its funding. According to Goodnight, this was because NIH only wanted to fund projects with medical applications. Goodnight continued teaching at the university for a salary of $ 1 and access to mainframe computers for use with the project, until it was funded by the University Statisticians of the Southern Experiment Stations the following year. John Sall joined the project in 1973 and contributed to

12300-563: The same functionality. The case was referred by the United Kingdom's High Court of Justice to the European Court of Justice on 11 August 2010. In May 2012, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of World Programming, finding that "the functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright." A free version of SAS was introduced for students in 2010. SAS Social Media Analytics,

12423-636: The size of the veterinary hospital. J. C. Raulston Arboretum is an 8-acre (0.03 km ) arboretum and botanical garden operated by NC State, and located just south of West Campus. It is open daily without charge. NC State is one of eight universities with a presence at the North Carolina Research Campus, a 340-acre biotechnology hub in Kannapolis , NC The university operates the Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI),

12546-507: The software taking an action, and declarative statements that provide instructions to read a data set or alter the data's appearance. The DATA step has two phases: compilation and execution. In the compilation phase, declarative statements are processed and syntax errors are identified. Afterwards, the execution phase processes each executable statement sequentially. Data sets are organized into tables with rows called "observations" and columns called "variables". Additionally, each piece of data has

12669-504: The software to 400 schools in North Carolina. SAS funded its first advertising program in 2000 with a $ 30 million television and radio campaign. The company considered making 25 percent of its ownership stake available on the stock market and providing employees with stock-options during the dot-com bubble before the following downturn, but ultimately chose not to. SAS was one of the few technology companies that did well during

12792-421: The software's econometrics, time series, and matrix algebra. Another early participant, Caroll G. Perkins, contributed to SAS' early programming. Jolayne W. Service and Jane T. Helwig created SAS's first documentation. The first versions of SAS, from SAS 71 to SAS 82, were named after the year in which they were released. In 1971, SAS 71 was published as a limited release. It was used only on IBM mainframes and had

12915-495: The software's primary graphical user interface (GUI). The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) features were improved in 2004 with SAS Interaction Management. In 2008, SAS announced Project Unity, designed to integrate data quality, data integration, and master data management . SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd was a lawsuit with developers of a competing implementation, World Programming System , alleging that they had infringed SAS's copyright in part by implementing

13038-622: The starting fees were not necessarily the best basis for comparison. SAS's business model is not weighted as heavily on initial fees for its programs, instead focusing on revenue from annual subscription fees. In 2016, SAS Viya, an artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics and data management platform, was introduced with a new architecture optimized for running SAS software in public clouds. Viya also increased interoperability with open source software, allowing models to be built in tools such as R , Python and Jupyter , and then executed on SAS's Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) engine. In 2020,

13161-426: The top 10% of their graduating classes. There were 130 valedictorians and 102 salutatorians in the class. Transfer admission is also very competitive. In the fall of 2015, 4,165 students applied to the transfer class; 1,470, or 35%, were admitted. NC State requires undergraduate admission candidates to choose a preferred college of study. After determining that an applicant meets the overall university requirements,

13284-497: The university has maintained these objectives while building on them. After opening in 1889, North Carolina A&M saw its enrollment fluctuate and its mandate expand. In 1917, it changed its name to "North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering"—or "North Carolina State" for short. During the Great Depression , the North Carolina state government, under Governor O. Max Gardner , administratively combined

13407-436: The workplace culture has created "intensely loyal" staff who care about the company's well-being. Even though there are unlimited sick days, the average employee takes only two. The 40,000 free medical visits provided to employees annually are estimated to cost the company US$ 4.5 million, but save it US$ 5 million due to the employee productivity lost when staff spend their work-hours in waiting rooms at other hospitals. SAS has

13530-653: The world's 50 largest software companies, SAS spent 2.5 times the industry average on R&D. It had customers in 145 countries as of 2019. As of 2010 revenues come relatively evenly from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. According to the company's 2014 financial reporting, its revenues are currently 46.7 percent from the Americas, 41.4 from Europe, Middle East and Africa, and 11.9 percent from Asia-Pacific. SAS has about 5,200 employees at its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, 1,600 employees elsewhere in

13653-422: The world, and the company's software is used by most of the Fortune 500 . The company's revenue grew from $ 10 million in 1980 to $ 3.2 billion in 2022. Historically, it has spent a notably higher proportion of its annual revenue on research and development than most other software companies. The Statistical Analysis System (SAS) began as a project at North Carolina State University 's agricultural department. It

13776-417: Was $ 2.15 billion, and in 2013 its revenue was $ 3.02 billion. By the late 1990s, SAS was the largest privately held software company. The Associated Press reported that analysts attributed the growth to aggressive research and development (R&D) spending. It had the highest ratio of its revenues spent on R&D in the industry for eight years, setting a record of 34 percent of its revenues in 1993, as it

13899-452: Was added. Version 7 introduced the Output Delivery System (ODS) and an improved text editor. Subsequent releases improved upon the ODS. For example, more output options were added in version 8. The number of operating systems that were supported was reduced to UNIX , Windows and z/OS , and Linux was added. SAS 8 and SAS Enterprise Miner were released in 1999. In 2002, SAS Text Miner software

14022-442: Was best for power users , while occasional users would benefit most from SPSS and Stata. A 2014 comparison by the University of California, Los Angeles , gave similar results. Competitors such as Revolution Analytics and Alpine Data Labs advertise their products as considerably cheaper than SAS's. In a 2011 comparison, Doug Henschen of InformationWeek found that start-up fees for the three are similar, though he admitted that

14145-439: Was developed as Centennial Campus . Since then, NC State has focused on developing its new Centennial Campus. It has invested more than $ 620 million in facilities and infrastructure at the new campus, with 62 acres (0.3 km ) of space being constructed. Sixty-one private and government agency partners are on Centennial Campus. NC State has almost 8,000 employees, nearly 35,000 students, a $ 1.495 billion annual budget, and

14268-402: Was developed by SAS co-founder John Sall and a team of developers, in order to take advantage of the graphical user interface introduced in the 1984 Apple Macintosh . JMP's name originally stood for "John's Macintosh Project". JMP was shipped for the first time in 1989. Updated versions of JMP were released continuously after 2002 with the most recent release in 2016. In January 2022, JMP became

14391-415: Was funded by the National Institutes of Health . and was originally intended to analyze agricultural data to improve crop yields. Barr was joined by student James Goodnight , who developed the software's statistical routines, and the two became project leaders. In 1968, Barr and Goodnight integrated new multiple regression and analysis of variance routines. In 1972, after issuing the first release of SAS,

14514-415: Was introduced. Text Miner analyzes text data like emails for patterns in business intelligence applications. In 2004, SAS Version 9.0 was released, referred to as "Project Mercury" internally, and was designed to make SAS accessible to a broader range of business users. SAS 9.0 added custom user interfaces based on the user's role and established the point-and-click user interface of SAS Enterprise Guide as

14637-443: Was originally led by Anthony James Barr in 1966, then joined by NCSU graduate student James Goodnight in 1967 and John Sall in 1973. In the early 1970s, the software was primarily leased to other agricultural departments in order to analyze the effect soil, weather and seed varieties had on crop yields. The project was funded by the National Institutes of Health and later by a coalition of university statistics programs called

14760-571: Was ranked 45th in total research expenditure by the National Science Foundation. Kiplinger's Personal Finance placed NC State 9th in its 2018 ranking of best value public colleges in the United States. There are several notable scholarships of North Carolina State University which include: SAS Institute 35°49′37″N 78°45′44″W  /  35.82694°N 78.76222°W  / 35.82694; -78.76222 SAS Institute (or SAS , pronounced "sass")

14883-594: Was ranking 13th in the nation, and material science at 15th. Other notable programs included civil engineering at 20th, environmental engineering tied at 21st, chemical engineering tied for 22nd, computer engineering at 28th, and biomedical engineering ranking 28th nationally in 2019. In 2019, the Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked NC State's electrical engineering program 9th internationally and chemical engineering 20th. In 2020, The Princeton Review ranked NC State 36th for game design. NC State

15006-496: Was used as a model for workplace perks at Google and is taught as a case study in management seminars at Stanford . SAS was identified as a "Best Company to Work For" in Fortune's annual rankings from the list's inception in 1997 until 2021, but after slipping in rank has failed to make more recent lists. In 2014, SAS ranked No. 2 on the elite Top 25 World's Best Multinational Workplaces list from Great Place to Work as well as No. 2 among Fortune's 2014 Best Companies to Work For in

15129-457: Was working on a new menu-based interface. In 1998, a larger proportion of its revenue was spent on R&D than at most other software companies; in 1997, this figure was more than double the industry average. SAS created an education division in 1997 to create software for schools, including the newly formed Cary Academy . In 2003 the Bank of America Foundation purchased and donated licenses for

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