SAS is a leader in business analytics. Through innovative analytics, it caters to business intelligence and data management software and services. SAS transforms data into insight which can give a fresh perspective to business. 

Unlike other BI tools available in the market, SAS takes an extensive programming approach to data transformation and analysis rather than a drag-drop-connect approach. This makes it stand out from the crowd with enhanced control over data manipulation. SAS has a very large number of components customized for specific industries and data analysis tasks.

Audience 

This tutorial is designed for all those readers who want to read and transform raw data to produce insights for business using SAS. Readers who aspire to become Data Analysts or Data Scientists can also draw benefits from this tutorial. 

Prerequisites 

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of Computer Programming terminologies. A basic understanding of any of the programming languages will help you understand the SAS programming concepts. Familiarity with SQL will be an added benefit.