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SAS-STAT Software

4.4

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About SAS-STAT Software

SAS-STAT Software is a comprehensive statistical analysis solution that implements widely used analytical methods. It can help organizations of all types and sizes streamline decision-making with proven, validated models for large data sets. SAS-STAT can be used by business analysts, statisticians, data scientists, researchers, and engineers for several use cases—from improving manufacturing processes to predicting customer behavior. The software includes hundreds of built-in, customizable graphs that deliver a consistent look across analyses.

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SAS-STAT Software Features

Popular features found in Data Analysis
Data Discovery
Data Visualization
Natural Language Search
Predictive Analytics
Query Builder
Storytelling
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Reporting & Statistics
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SAS-STAT Software User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

57%

32%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.6

Value for money

3.9

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.5

Ashley B.

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Insurance

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2019

Excellent product

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

No limitations on the amount of data to manipulate and once you learn how to use it, it’s very simple. It allows you to manipulate data and simplify it for presentation and research purposes. I love making tables and doing frequencies

Cons:

It takes a long time to learn. It’s like a whole different language so patience is needed

Reasons for switching to SAS-STAT Software

Due to the amount of data I work with

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Reviewer

Biotechnology

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Great tool for analyzing big datasets and insuring the accuracy of your resulting

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love the output style and how the software is insured to produce the best possible output. Additionally, I like the log feature which helps you debug your code. I also like that the syntax is mostly not case sensitive (with the exception of literal strings).

Cons:

There is a learning curve to this software regarding the language. But, there are free and affordable modules on the website and at you local library that you can check out to learn how to program in SAS. The software is expensive as well, but for what you get it is work the money.

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1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

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Reviewed July 2018

As a user of many open source alternatives, this felt like a step backwards in many regards.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is reliable and a can handle medium-large datasets without breaking a sweat. The flow of the SAS scripts is usually straightforward and readable for basic data manipulations. It allows SQL to be embedded which is what I take advantage of in 90% if the code that I write. The documentation online is throrough across the board, especially compared to the scattered nature of documentation for R or Python.

Cons:

Rigid structure of the code and requires a lot of bad practices such as copying and pasting code blocks. This leads to thousands of lines being necessary when I could write only hundreds in another language. There may be more efficiencies I could take advantage of, but as an intermediate user I do not have time to learn the intricacies of this tool that is so different than everything else out there. Also, the high price is causing my organization to shift away from this software, but the pricing structure makes it hard to lower our usage without scrapping it all together.

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Government Administration

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

SAS Review

Good. I feel like a learn something new everyday especially when handling data request. Doing the SAS training for certification were also incredibly helpful in expanding my understanding of what all I could do in SAS.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1) That the rules are relatively consistent making it easier to learn more and more technical jobs once you've got the basics 2) SAS will make you check you work and has useful error messages and alerts 3)that shear scope of procedures and step options available for data analysis. It offers users numerous back up options if they are not sure how to get one particular procedure to work

Cons:

1) There is a definite learning curve with SAS and it takes time and patience to practice at it. It's worth it but other systems are slightly more intuitive. 2) SAS is not the best when it comes to data visualization tools like bar charts.

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Financial Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Easy to use and all-in-one analytics software

I am developing statistical models for financial industry using SAS. In addition, I am doing portfolio analyses and also model monitoring tasks within the tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SAS Enterprise Guide is the tool a data scientist will be able to perform all data preparation and analysis tasks with both hard coding or drag and drop functionalities. Even some forms of models can easily be developed within the tool. On the other hand, SAS Miner is also very useful for statistical model build. The advantage of all these SAS tools is the visibility of the data from all these tools as they are integrated with each other

Cons:

As data science word is evolving in a very fast pace, SAS should also align itself to this world. SAS sometimes stays behind the popular algorithms which could be done with R and Python. I am sure they will also be covered soon within the tools.

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Research

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

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Reviewed July 2021

SAS-STAT is the gold standard software for pharmacutical industries

SAS is great and has great documentation and SAS also provides a lot of great books. I have not no problem with its difficulties because I know every good thing has costs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

SAS-STAT provides a lot of statistical procedures but from the point of view of an experienced Statistician, this is not the main advantage of SAS with respect to its comparators including R and Stata. SAS is recognized as the gold standard statistical software for biostatistics and statistical programmer job titles in the pharmaceutical industry where the cost of software is not important with respect to the overall cost of drug development. So the main advantage of SAS is its prestige that facilitates some of the challenges in submitting drug development applications to governmental agencies.

Cons:

Working with SAS is not easy for most statistics graduates where they are well familiar with R. On the other hand, Stata software is also complete and is menu-driven so it is easy to use. Hence, the only reason that you may need to chose SAS is just its prestige.

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Reviewer

Used other for more than 2 years

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Reviewed April 2018

Excellent statistical analysis software, but be prepared to pay!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SAS 9.3 gives you tremendous power to clean, manipulate, and analyze large datasets. I've been a SAS user for a while and prior to that I had only worked with SPSS. SAS opened the door for me to think about my data differently. I've used SAS now on criminal sentencing data, healthcare claims data, and operational case management data. Whether you need to create an automated report, write algorithms to mine data, or prep a dataset for another software like Tableau, SAS is a fantstic tool. Additionally, SAS has a litany of trainings available for purchase to help you get the most of your data.

Cons:

SAS is very costly. It's important to keep in mind that in addition to being a product, SAS is also a programming language that as of writing is not patented. If you are on a budget there is a company out of the UK that sells a software that runs Base SAS programming language for a fraction of a price, great for outfitting a startup team. SAS Graph module leaves something to be desired, there are better softwares that focus on just visualization.

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Reviewer

Financial Services

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

The original power statistical tool

Use it just for the sheer power. Quite expensive licenses and there are certainly better and faster packages available. Its just that migrating system from a foolproof and proven system just seems too much of work. Hope they up their game plan soon or soon, it might be time to make the plunge.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Very powerful. You want it and you can do it. Quite intuitive programming. Has multiple ways to integrate with other packages for data exchange. Has a reasonably versatile scalablity.

Cons:

Its aged. Much slower than some of the latest products in the market. Syntax while not complex can hardly be described intuitive Interface seems at least a couple of decades old.

Joshua B.

Verified reviewer

Pharmaceuticals

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

SAS opens doors

SAS has been great because I know I'm getting the correct results.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

SAS stat makes it relatively easy to spit out a lot of useful information about your data. Charts, graphs, and summaries come out quickly without much code.

Cons:

There is a steep learning curve and SAS is not a forgiving programming language, so if you don't have experience with SAS, expect to take some time to learn.

Dason K.

Verified reviewer

Insurance

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Good support and very good at what it does but archaic and not as easy to use as some alternatives

Well tested software that can do a lot of statistical analysis quite fast.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

If what you want to do is supported in a proc then it can be very easy to to get your work done. The documentation is *very* good.

Cons:

If what you want isn't supported you *might* be able to find a macro online. But the macro language is very archaic feeling especially compared to R or Python. The graphics used to be terrible but they have gotten quite a bit better over the years. It's also incredibly expensive especially when you compare it to R (free and open source).

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