SAS Language
An area where I can readily demonstrate cost savings, is the use of SAS Language for batch and interactive processing as a replacement to low-level languages. When your data processing needs outgrow spreadsheets and scripting languages, Base SAS is the perfect choice. It's natural language syntax and exhaustive procedures and functions increases the capabilities of your software, while keeping it simple enough to maintain. As a result development time and costs are significantly reduced.

For specialized tasks, SAS Macro Language and the wide array of optional software components prove invaluable. SAS/FSP provides a front-end compliment to the programming environment by offering a spreadsheet like interface to any data source. An efficient intrinsic data structure, Display Manager programming interface and a powerful yet intuitive language, makes Base SAS a programming environment capable of handling complex data processing tasks.

 Data Manipulation

 Data Transformation

 Data Cleansing

 Base SAS                           SAS/FSP