history of sas
SAS
History
SAS was founded in 1976 to help a wide range of customers, from pharmaceutical companies and banks to academic and governmental entities. SAS originally emerged as a program called the Statistical Analysis System. The program was developed in 1966 at North Carolina State University under a grant from the National Institutes of Health to analyze vast amounts of agricultural data collected through the United States Department of Agriculture. The early leaders of the project were NCSU faculty members Jim Goodnight and Jim Barr. Jane Helwig and John Sall joined the project in 1973 to make up the core team of SAS. After realizing the success of the first SAS users conference in 1976, Goodnight, Barr, Helwig, and Sall left NCSU and formed SAS Institute Inc., a private company devoted to the maintenance and further development of SAS, later that year. The first office was located in a building at 2806 Hillsborough Street, across from the university. Within just a year of incorporation SAS was recognized as an outstanding software by Datamation magazine, who also gave SAS the DataPro Software Honor Roll. By 1978 there were twenty one employees and 600 SAS customer sites. In 1979, the company granted its first overseas software license to Databank in New Zealand. Because the growth of SAS in the 1980s was so astonishing, the company moved its headquarters campus to Cary, North Carolina. The new headquarters campus grew from one building to eighteen buildings including a training center, publications warehouse, video studio, recreation and fitness center, health care center and a café serving gourmet meals followed the opening of the childcare facility. Inc. magazine named SAS one of the fastest growing companies in America for five consecutive years. Health and Living magazine named SAS the “Healthiest Companies to Work For” in the US. SAS broke new ground in the software industry with the release of SAS/GRAPH software for information presentation graphics
History
SAS was founded in 1976 to help a wide range of customers, from pharmaceutical companies and banks to academic and governmental entities. SAS originally emerged as a program called the Statistical Analysis System. The program was developed in 1966 at North Carolina State University under a grant from the National Institutes of Health to analyze vast amounts of agricultural data collected through the United States Department of Agriculture. The early leaders of the project were NCSU faculty members Jim Goodnight and Jim Barr. Jane Helwig and John Sall joined the project in 1973 to make up the core team of SAS. After realizing the success of the first SAS users conference in 1976, Goodnight, Barr, Helwig, and Sall left NCSU and formed SAS Institute Inc., a private company devoted to the maintenance and further development of SAS, later that year. The first office was located in a building at 2806 Hillsborough Street, across from the university. Within just a year of incorporation SAS was recognized as an outstanding software by Datamation magazine, who also gave SAS the DataPro Software Honor Roll. By 1978 there were twenty one employees and 600 SAS customer sites. In 1979, the company granted its first overseas software license to Databank in New Zealand. Because the growth of SAS in the 1980s was so astonishing, the company moved its headquarters campus to Cary, North Carolina. The new headquarters campus grew from one building to eighteen buildings including a training center, publications warehouse, video studio, recreation and fitness center, health care center and a café serving gourmet meals followed the opening of the childcare facility. Inc. magazine named SAS one of the fastest growing companies in America for five consecutive years. Health and Living magazine named SAS the “Healthiest Companies to Work For” in the US. SAS broke new ground in the software industry with the release of SAS/GRAPH software for information presentation graphics