| For over three decades, SAS software has been used by programmers, analysts, and scientists to manipulate and analyze data. Today, SAS (pronounced sass) is used around the world in 110 countries, at over 40,000 sites, by more than 4.5 million users. SAS users stay with SAS year after year because they know its broad flexibility and depth of functionality will enable them to get the work done. However, not everyone wants to write programs.
What SAS Enterprise Guide is SAS Enterprise Guide gives you access to the power of SAS via a point-and-click interface. SAS Enterprise Guide does not itself analyze data. Instead, SAS Enterprise Guide generates SAS code and submits it to SAS. Every time you run a task in SAS Enterprise Guide, it writes SAS code. The List Data task, for example, writes a PROC PRINT. The Summary Tables task writes a PROC TABULATE. There are approximately 80 such tasks offered within SAS Enterprise Guide.
You don’t have to be a programmer to use SAS Enterprise Guide, but, if you would like to see the SAS code that SAS Enterprise Guide writes for you, you can do that too. You can also edit the programs written by SAS Enterprise Guide, or open an empty code window and write a SAS program from scratch using a syntax-sensitive editor like the one in Base SAS. Then you can run your SAS program, and view the SAS log and output. So, SAS Enterprise Guide meets the needs of programmers and non-programmers alike.
What software you need To run SAS Enterprise Guide, you need, of course, SAS Enterprise Guide software. SAS Enterprise Guide runs in only the Windows operating environment. Because SAS Enterprise Guide writes code and submits it to SAS, you also need a machine on which SAS is installed. That machine is called a SAS server, and it may be the same machine where SAS Enterprise Guide is installed (in which case, it is called a local server) or it may be a separate machine (called a remote server). SAS runs in many operating environments and on many types of computers. Any computer with SAS can be a SAS server as long as you have access to that machine.
SAS has many different products. To run SAS Enterprise Guide, you only need a few. You must have Base SAS software installed on your SAS server. If you have a remote SAS server, you may need a product called SAS Integration Technologies. If you want to run statistical analyses, then you must also have SAS/STAT software. For running econometric time series analyses, you need SAS/ETS software. For graphics, you need SAS/GRAPH software. Except in special cases, you probably won’t need SAS/ACCESS software. (See section 2.1 for more information about the types of data SAS Enterprise Guide can read.) |
