SAS Institute is an American multinational developer of analytics software based in Cary, North Carolina.
SAS Institute is an American multinational developer of analytics software based in Cary, North Carolina. SAS develops and markets analytics software, which helps businesses to access, manage, analyse and report on data to aid in decision-making. The company is the world’s largest privately held software business.
The Institute started as a project at North Carolina State University to create a statistical analysis system that 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.