SAS: Statistical Analysis System

SAS (pronounced “sass”, originally Statistical Analysis System) is an integrated system of software products provided by SAS Institute Inc. that enables programmers to perform:

• data entry, retrieval, management, and mining
• report writing and graphics
• statistical analysis
• business planning, forecasting, and decision support
• operations research and project management
• quality improvement
• applications development
• data warehousing (extract, transform, load)
• platform independent and remote computing

In addition, SAS has many business solutions that enable large-scale software solutions for areas such as IT management, human resource management, financial management, business intelligence, customer relationship management and more.

Source: Wikipedia