For almost 35 years, SAS has given its customers “The Power to Know.” And, one thing known throughout the world is that the planet’s largest privately-held software company based in Cary, N.C. is the market leader in business analytics.
SAS once stood for "statistical analysis system" and began at N.C. State University as a project to analyze agricultural research. As demand for such software grew, SAS was founded in 1976.
From reporting $138,000 in revenue in its first year being independent, the company has turned a profit annually and saw total revenue for 2010 at $2.43 billion.
SAS was built on the combined strengths of software, domain expertise, and a generation of experience helping customers across organizations, industries, and governments around the globe succeed.
While the company continues to grow, SAS remains true to its long-standing goal of helping customers transform how their businesses work and sustain a culture of fact-based decision making.
Their leading-edge business analytics framework provides customers with a flexible and straightforward path for achieving their objectives and gaining maximum return from their information assets.
Today, SAS has more than 11,000 employees and staffed offices in 55 countries. Together, the company provides software and services to more than 50,000 sites in 127 countries.
As the economy continues on its journey toward recovery, the company continues on the path of success.
Customers are increasingly turning to SAS to manage operations and engage in better risk management.
Software revenue remains strong in several areas, including customer intelligence, credit risk, supply chain and text analytics, attesting that companies striving to survive in a down economy, and succeed in times of recovery and growth, need such solutions to answer complex business problems, spur innovation, and enable success.
It is one of the few companies in the world that has been able to turn a profit every year it has been in business.
With a strong commitment to employees and in R&D (investing 24 percent of revenue in 2010) as well as being debt-free, SAS is not only a Tarheel Titan, but a global titan in technology.