Introduction to the SAS System

SAS is an integrated system of software solutions that enables you to perform the following tasks: data entry, retrieval, and management report writing and graphics design statistical and mathematical analysis business forecasting and decision support operations research and project management applications development How you use SAS depends on what you want to accomplish. Some people use many of the capabilities of the SAS System, and others use only a few.

Overview of Base SAS 
Software Base SAS software contains the following: a data management facility a programming language data analysis and reporting utilities Learning to use Base SAS enables you to work with these features of SAS. It also prepares you to learn other SAS products, because all SAS products follow the same basic rules.