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What is Base SAS?

Base SAS is a programming language software that provides web-based programming interface; ready-to-use programs for data manipulation, information storage and retrieval, descriptive statistics and reporting; a centralized metadata repository; and a macro facility that reduces programming time and maintenance headaches.

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Base SAS is a programming language software that provides web-based programming interface; ready-to-use programs for data manipulation, information storage and retrieval, descriptive statistics and reporting; a centralized metadata repository; and a macro facility that reduces programming time and maintenance headaches.


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Year Founded
1976
HQ Location
Cary, NC
Twitter
@SASsoftware
62,434 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
17,268 employees on LinkedIn®
Phone
1-800-727-0025
Description

SAS offers business analytics software and services, and is an independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.


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Kalind P.
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Sr. SAS Technial Consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Base SAS?

Wide variety of SAS Procedures, functions, and formats. It's a fourth-generation language, so doesn't require long lines of coding.

All industry-required functions/procedures are already available with almost any kind of customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

The only downside I could think of is, it's not easy to learn.

And, you might have to get trained by SAS Institute (e-learning/offline) or its accredited training institutes.

You might also require Base SAS & Advances SAS Certifications to prove your efficiency and get a job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

It can do anything, Sky is the limit.

Some peculiar things, I did was do Web Scraping (with PROC HTTP) or translating the whole dataset from one language to another language (with PROC GROOVY). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul A.
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What do you like best about Base SAS?

Easy coding and macros for reusing in programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

No disadvantages in it. No common tool for more functionalities as of my experience in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can handle large datasets for analysis to show the report and do aggregation, filtering, drill down etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

madhur k.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Base SAS?

I like this system that evaluates all the bases of all. We obtain information efficiently by using the systematized analysis function, thus providing clarification of possible expressions to interpret. For its part, it allows us to establish and share pictorial representations and ideas with the easy-to-exploit corporate observations and understanding tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

The capacity of the system is essentially subordinated to the standard paradigms. The technical support they provide is not very astute and is often scarce (conditionally it is not free, there are no different audiences in which we can raise possible problems and solutions). In addition, it is not very perceptive for the consumer and its use is complex at the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

For our organization, the implementation of this new system has been of great help, which has had an exceptional influence on the company since it has brought the significant speed. With the combination of SAS and Microsoft, we achieve perfection in our team and with this we achieve an ideal system to join with our entire company, at any level of production, to induce change. Infuse familiarity into every decision with built observations, data processing, and clarity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rohan D.
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What do you like best about Base SAS?

Base sas is basic tool for SAS for statistical analysis. Best part of base SAS is accurate analysis and superior navigation compared to studio . Very user friendly application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

Except server issues and downtime there is nothing to dislike in Base SAS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Base SAS for clinical trial domain. It is very nice application for creating Datasets , tables , listing and figures. Debugging is very easy in Base SAS. It helped me to brought accurate outcome to my customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Base SAS?

The Base SAS language is versatile, complete and very flexible. It is useful for ETL routines, as well as exploratory data analysis and statistical analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

The SAS platform is costly. Installation requires a potent server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used SAS Base programming for multiple purposes, such as finance, retail, telecommunications, in short, you can use SAS Base in all branches Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swarnava C.
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What do you like best about Base SAS?

Base SAS can be used as a simple ETL tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

BASE SAS don't have the application of machine learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can easily extract a huge bulk of data and load in into another dataset and generate reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Base SAS?

It's is very fast and convenient to transform data using sas, It has the support for every data format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

It's not free! And it should be able run easily on cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me transform data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Base SAS?

Base SAS is easy to use and find resources to learn. SAS provides great learning resources and has the expertise to help anyone beginning in their career Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

It would be nice if Base SAS had a feature that shows what options are available for procedures similar to SAS EG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I map datasets to SDTM and ADAM datasets for clinical trial data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Base SAS?

Learning SaS Viya through online resources, and the great Support Forum and Team, made this an accessible tool to adopt. I appreciated the ease of use in saving datasets for my own use and to collaborate with peers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

Long learning curve and extremely complex nuances to learn. While this can be appreciated for those data analysts who smart backgrounds, it took me a while to learn how to use SaS Viya for simple analyses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Base SAS:

Leverage the immense learning portals, resources, forums, and support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a student user of SaS Viya, I was analyzing pre-built data sets to learn about various analytical approaches. We later learned how to visualize our results to tell a story and create a convincing infographic based on course findings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Base SAS?

It is an extremely easy programming language that can be used for all kinds of data manipulation, transformations, statistical analysis, scorecard development, and validation. It provides a comprehensive set of in-built modules and functions for data mining and predictive modeling. The ability query and handle large complex database with ease makes it an excellent tool in the commerical analytical space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Base SAS?

The license cost of this software is high as compared to other software/tools in the same sphere. SAS only supports basic machine learning algorithms, which is a significant drawback while working on predictive modeling. SAS doesn't provide good support while working on textual and unstructured data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Base SAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

In our team, we used SAS Base to query transactional data and customer demographics from Enterprise Data Warehouse. The primary aim was to build risk-based scorecards using logistic regression models for unsecured portfolios. SAS Base enabled our team to query large chunks of data at speed and further run exploratory data analysis for understanding hidden patterns and variable interdependence. The Proc SQL suite of commands in SAS allows users to manipulate data, thereby performing complex transformations as part of data mining and statistical modeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.