Companies

SAS Institute

SAS Institute, headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, is the world's largest privately held software company, specialising in advanced analytics, business intelligence, and data management software. Founded in 1976 at North Carolina State University, SAS has always maintained a close relationship with academic statistics and data science. Its SAS Academic Programme provides free software to universities, supporting teaching and research across statistics, econometrics, biostatistics, epidemiology, and clinical trial analysis. SAS Viya, its cloud-native analytics platform, integrates open-source languages (Python, R) with SAS's industrial-strength statistical procedures. SAS is a key sponsor of annual statistics conferences, funds doctoral fellowships in data science, and collaborates with public health agencies and academic medical schools on large-scale observational database analyses.

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Industry

Advanced Analytics Software

R&D Spend

$1.1B (2023)