Overview

The SAS Education Analytical Suite is an integrated system of software products that enables the programmer to perform:

  • data entry, retrieval, management, and mining
  • report writing and graphics
  • statistical analysis
  • business planning, forecasting, and decision support
  • operations research and project management
  • quality improvement
  • applications development
  • data warehousing
  • platform independent and remote computing

Note: UMN's SAS license is only intended for teaching, learning and research use. 

Eligible Users

  • Faculty
    • use permitted
  • Staff
    • use permitted
  • Students
    • use permitted
  • Health Sciences Affiliates
    • use not permitted

Allowed Uses

  • Research
    • use permitted
  • Teaching and Learning
    • use permitted
  • Administrative
    • use not permitted
  • Personal
    • use not permitted

Highlights

Our license for faculty and staff includes:

  • Base SAS Software
  • SAS OnlineTutor Programming Software
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 Software
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC Software
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB Software
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to ORACLE Software
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files Software
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYBASE Software
  • SAS/AF Software
  • SAS/ASSIST Software
  • SAS/CONNECT Software
  • SAS/EIS Software
  • SAS/ETS Software
  • SAS/FSP Software
  • SAS/GIS Software
  • SAS/GRAPH Software
  • SAS/IML Software
  • SAS/INSIGHT Software
  • SAS/LAB Software
  • SAS/OR Software
  • SAS/QC Software
  • SAS/SECURE for Windows Software
  • SAS/SHARE Software
  • SAS/SPECTRAVIEW Software
  • SAS/STAT Software

SAS OnDemand for Academics for students includes:

  • SAS/STAT® – State-of-the-art statistical software.
  • Base SAS® – Flexible, extensible fourth-generation programming language for data access, transformation and reporting.
  • SAS/IML® – Interactive matrix programming and exploratory data analysis.
  • SAS/OR® – Enhanced operations research methods for optimizing processes and addressing management science challenges.
  • SAS/QC® – Tools for statistical quality improvement.
  • SAS/ETS® – Model, forecast and simulate processes with econometric and time series analysis.

Terms of Use

Access to software licensed by the University is based on University affiliation and sometimes the device on which the software is installed.

It is your responsibility to make sure you are using the software in accordance with the University's Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources policy and software terms and conditions, plus any vendor terms listed below.

  • UMN's SAS license is only intended for teaching, learning and research use.
    • For example, if student or instructor uses the school's real data to find patterns and warning signs of why students might leave school before graduation only to understand what is possible to predict, it is an academic use.
    • If an admissions or student retention office takes any action on the data, it is an administrative use.
    • If an instructor provides results of a student satisfaction survey to their current students for analysis, it is an academic use, but if instructors use those results to change their approach in the classroom, that is now administrative use.
  • This software runs off of a license code. This license code expires in February of every year, and will not be tied to your actual license with OIT Software Licensing.
  • This software can be installed on up to two computers that are used by the licensee as long as the software is not running on both computers at the same time.

Access Links

Costs

Discounted price for UMN collegiate units. No charge for those eligible in those units.

Vendor charges discounted fee for those eligible.

Vendor provides to those eligible for no charge.

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