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why use SAS vs other tools

mpirritano — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:03:32 GMT

Greetings, all!

Why would an organization choose to use SAS over other tools like snowflake?

Is there any documentation that provides an objective assessment that could make having SAS financially worth it? Seems like everything you could do in SAS you could do in other tools. If you have that other tool would would be the point of having SAS as well?

Any ideas or documentation that could make the case?

thansk

matt

Re: why use SAS vs other tools

yabwon — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:06:16 GMT

Idea 1) Restoring data from 1996 took 4 lines of code 🙂

Bart

Re: why use SAS vs other tools

mpirritano — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:07:25 GMT

thanks! Shorter code! got it. that's on my list.

Re: why use SAS vs other tools

Ksharp — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:09:26 GMT

SAS is deeply rooted in Life Science.
There are many models are not in other tools. Like Mixed Model, Survival Analysis, Bayes Analysis.

And For OR module , others could not have it . Especially for very complicated OR issue.
https://communities.sas.com/t5/Mathematical-Optimization/bd-p/operations_research

Different tools run the same model could get different result/output. Government would trust who? SAS is just a standard tool .

Re: why use SAS vs other tools

LinusH — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:45:40 GMT

I think you are comparing apples and pears.

Snowflake is basically a database, SAS is an analytics tool with data management capabilities.

Sure, there are some overlap.

What is your use case ad requirements?

Re: why use SAS vs other tools

yabwon — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:07:40 GMT

Backward compatibility was my point, but short code counts too 🙂

Bart