Mr. Keith Collins, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology ...

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United NationsThe History of SASKeith CollinsSenior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer


2008 Performance$2.26 Billion in Total Revenue


In the Beginning – mid 1960s

IBM 7090; Cost $3M; 0.5 MHz; 0.2 MB RAM


Land grant universities• University Statisticians Southern Experiment Stations (USSES)

− Clemson University Auburn University− Texas A&M University University of Georgia− University of Alabama University of Tennessee− Louisiana State University North Carolina State− Virginia Tech University of Florida− University of Kentucky Mississippi State− Oklahoma State University

• Funding from NIH

− to create general purpose statistical software

− Awarded to N.C. State University; Department of Statistics

In the Beginning – 1966


Design of the SAS System

Data

PrintOutput

DATAStep

PROC Step

SASData Set

PRINTSORT

MEANSPLOTCORRREGR

ANOVAFACTOR


Statistical Analysis System Vision

Data Analysis Information Delivery• 80% Data:

− Access− Cleaning− Transformations− Management− Storage and retrieval

• 20% Analysis


Year of Incorporation: 1976

January 1976: SUGI 1• 206 users, 31 papers

July 1976:• Original Owners

− Jim Goodnight− John Sall− Tony Barr− Jane Helwig


Software Development : SAS 76

SAS 76• Second major release of SAS• 70,000 source statements• IBM mainframe – 140K• Data enhancements

− Input/Output tape and disk files (File & Infile)− Formats− Programming statements− Contents and history of SAS data sets

• Procedure Library: 33 total• Installed at 155 sites


SAS Campus History : 1980, Building A

Office park with Landmark Engineering

IBM 370/158 Mainframe; 3270 Terminals

Loading Dock Racquetball

Court & Showers Landscaping?


SAS History : 1980 – 1982

New Products• SAS/ETS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/FSP, SAS/IMS-DL/I

SAS International• 1980; First subsidiary opened in Weybridge, U.K.• 1981; Distributor in New Zealand starts selling SAS• 1982; Creation of SAS European Headquarters• 1982-1983; Creation of SAS Germany, France,

Denmark


Acquisitions and Regional Offices : 1985 – 1989+

1985 : SYSTEM 2000 – Hierarchical Data Base• Austin Division

1986 : Lattice Inc. – Lattice C Compiler• Chicago Regional Office

1988 : Neovisuals – Graphical Cad System• SAS Institute Inc. (Canada)

1989 – forward : Regional offices begin opening• Face-to-face sales replaced telesales.


Software Development : Version 5 (1985)

No longer Statistical Analysis System (SAS) Mainframe

• OS and TSO• CMS• VSE

Minicomputers• Data General AOS/VS• Digital VAX VMS• Prime PRIMOS

SAS Display ManagerWindowing Facility

New Products• SAS/OR, SAS/IML, SAS/AF

Program Editor

SAS log

0001000200030004

command = = =>

command = = =>


Software Development : Version 6

SAS achieves hardware independence

MultiVendorMultiVendorArchitectureArchitecture TMTM

WorkstationWorkstationPCPC SuperSuperComputerComputerMainframeMainframeServers/Servers/

MidrangeMidrange

10%10%dependentdependent

90%90%independentindependent

MultiVendorMultiVendorArchitectureArchitecture TMTMMultiVendorMultiVendorArchitectureArchitecture TMTM

WorkstationWorkstationWorkstationWorkstationPCPCPCPC SuperSuperComputerComputer

SuperSuperComputerComputerMainframeMainframeMainframeMainframeServers/Servers/

MidrangeMidrangeServers/Servers/MidrangeMidrange








Analytical Products

SAS/STAT® – 1972, earlier than SAS Institute! SAS/ETS® – 1980 SAS/OR® – 1982 SAS/IML® – 1986 SAS/QC® – 1986 SAS® Enterprise Miner™ – 1998 SAS® Forecast Server – 2005

… and more


Building R


Evolving to Meet Demand


Portfolio Context

Industry Solutions

Business Solutions

Enterprise Intelligence Platform


Maturity and Convergence


Analytics Maturity Model

LOW

HIGH

Rew

ard

REACTIVE PROACTIVE ALIGNED GOVERNEDPeople, Policies, Technology Adoption

AutomateDecisions

Optimization

Forecasting

Statistical Analysis

Adhoc Discovery

OperationalAnalytics

Think Locally,Act Locally.

Think Globally,Act Locally.

Think Globally,Act Collectively.

Think Globally, Act Globally.

Predictive Modeling

Collaboration


LOW

HIGH

Rew

ard

UNDISCIPLINED

REACTIVE PROACTIVE GOVERNEDPeople, Policies, Technology Adoption

BPM Integration

CDI

PDM

CRM

ERP

Data Warehouse

SFA

Database Marketing

MDM

Think Locally,Act Locally.

Think Globally,Act Locally.

Think Globally,Act Collectively.

Think Globally, Act Globally.

Data Governance Maturity Model


LOW

HIGH

Rew

ard

DEFINED MANAGED OPTIMIZED*People, Policies, Technology Adoption

BPM Optimization

Process RepositoriesWorkflow

Email-Driven

Manual Processes

CEP

Rules Engines

Process Modeling

BAM

Simulation

BPEL

SOA

REPEATABLE *From Carnegie Mellon’s CMM

Process Maturity Model


SAS® In-Database Processing

SAS

Scoring

Data

Teradata EDW

Current Capabilities

Data

Teradata EDW

Future Option

SAS

Analytic Modeling

SAS

Analytic Modeling

SAS Modeling

SAS

Scoring

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