What is Base SAS?
Base SAS Software delivers flexible, extensible 4GL and web-based interface for data access, transformation, and reporting. Based on an open, cross-platform architecture, Base SAS is hardware-agile and integrates into any computing infrastructure, enabling you to unify computing efforts and get a single view of your data. From small data issues to large complex data problems, programmers can read, format, analyze and report on data quickly, regardless of format.
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85 Likeliness to Recommend
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92 Plan to Renew
84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Base SAS?
Pros
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Base SAS Reviews
Oluwaseun E.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2025
SAS combines functionalities for data analysis
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Base SAS from other similar products?
Base SAS is the foundational module of the SAS software suite, providing the core programming language and data manipulation capabilities. It is a software package, not a software application or interface
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's ability to mine, alter, manage and retrieve data from a variety of sources and perform statistical analysis on it
What do you dislike most about this product?
There are some manipulation it might not be able to do especially when it comes to advance function and loops
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
SAS is a powerful software suite used for advanced analytics, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics, offering both a graphical interface and a programming language for various task.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2023
Base SAS is a Perfect IT Solution
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Karan B.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2023
Robust Product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Base SAS from other similar products?
Buitt in statistical reports on the data with a clear indication of the various types of problems. Descriptive analysis, Inferential, Analysis, ANOVA, etc all procedures are available to use with just one click and analyze complex data.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Machine learning features are the best. Once the data is cleaned and ready to be used in models. Numer of models can be run using procedures and can be compared side by side to optimize the results and make data-driven decisions.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The real-time analysis of data feature is not available and visualization is not very good.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend using this software for research purposes and before you use go through the documentation as a lot of information is shared and you will learn that for a number of complex statistical analyses, procedures are available.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Saves Time
