===== SAS ===== **Important notice: \\ From 15 April 2026, the SAS Campus Licence may no longer be used and must be removed from all devices on which it has been used to date!**\\ SAS ("Statistical Analysis System") a product of [[http://www.sas.com/de_de/home.html|SAS Institute Inc.]] is a world-wide used high-professionell program package. Data sets and functions are strictly separated within SAS system which allows to change easily functions visualization, routines included. SAS runs are defined by a special script language usable for your own workflows and pipelines. SAS scripts can be called like programs.\\ ==== Licenses and Software ==== Emplopyees of the Universities in Lower Saxonia can buy cheap single user licenses by GWDG according to a corresponding license contract.\\ For more detailed information please contact our helpdesk service at [[support@gwdg.de?subject=SAS|support@gwdg.de subject: SAS]].\\ Emplopyees of Georg-August-University Göttingen can use a **campus license contract** to get cheap single user licenses (**ends on 14 April 2026**). This contract is supported by several institutes on the university. Students in general and members of these supporting institutes can get SAS for free. Others have to pay an amount per year, If several licenses are needed a discount is possible on request.\\ The following SAS modules of the Education Analytical Suite are licensed:\\ Base SAS\\ SAS Bridge for ESRI\\ SAS Enterprise Guide\\ SAS Integration Technologies\\ SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2, Informix, MS SQL Server, HP Neoview, MySQL, ODBC, OLE DB, Oracle, PC FIles, Sybase, Aster nCluster, Greenplum, Netezza, Sybase IQ, Teradata\\ SAS/AF\\ SAS/ASSIST\\ SAS/CONNECT\\ SAS/EIS\\ SAS/ETS\\ SAS/FSP\\ SAS/GRAPH\\ SAS/IML\\ SAS/INSIGHT (only SAS 9.3 or lower)\\ SAS/LAB (only SAS 9.3 or lower)\\ SAS/OR\\ SAS/QC\\ SAS/SECURE Windows, 168-bit (only SAS 9.3 or lower)\\ SAS/SHARE\\ SAS/STAT\\ SAS/Clinical Standard Toolkit\\ \\ SAS run on MS-Windows (32+64 bit) and Linux (64 bit).\\ You can download the following zipped DVDs if you have an IP address in the GoeNET (134.76.*.*). If you haven't you can use a [[en:services:network_services:vpn:anyconnect|VPN tunnel]].\\ === Downloads === If you only need a SID file (license file) please contact us at [[support@gwdg.de?subject=SAS-licences|support@gwdg.de subject: SAS-licences]]. If your institute does not support our SAS license contract by now, we need your invoice address.\\ ==== Manuals, Courses, Introductions ==== __The complex and powerful software package is not self-explaining and an introduction is strongly recommended.__\\ Members and students of the university may ask your institute or your faculty for specific introduction to SAS or [[https://info.gwdg.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:services:application_services:statistics_programs:start#consulting|consulting-hours at university]]. Some institutes at the University of Göttingen serves you with courses.\\ Numbers of books, manuals and tutorials to SAS are available most dealing with specific topics and applications.\\ As a matter of course SAS Inc. sells courses and workshops but these are usually too expensive for our community.