SAS is a software suite that can mine, alter, manage and retrieve data from a variety of sources and perform statistical analysis on it. SAS provides a graphical point-and-click user interface for non-technical users and more advanced options through the SAS programming language. In order to use Statistical Analysis System, Data should be in an Excel table format or SAS format. SAS programs have a DATA step, which retrieves and manipulates data, usually creating a SAS data set, and a PROC step, which analyzes the data.

The SAS software suite has more than 200 components Some of the SAS components include:
- Base SAS ? Basic procedures and data management
- SAS/STAT ? Statistical analysis
- SAS/GRAPH ? Graphics and presentation
- SAS/OR ? Operations research
- SAS/ETS ? Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
- SAS/IML ? Interactive matrix language
- SAS/AF ? Applications facility
- SAS/QC ? Quality control
- SAS/INSIGHT ? Data mining
- SAS/PH ? Clinical trial analysis
- Enterprise Miner ? data mining
- Enterprise Guide - GUI based code editor & project manager
- SAS EBI - Suite of Business Intelligence Applications
- SAS Grid Manager - Manager of SAS grid computing environment

http://www.sas.com/software/sas9/