why use SAS vs other tools

[mpirritano]

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

[yabwon]

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

Bart

[mpirritano]

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

[yabwon]

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

Bart

[Ksharp]

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 .

[LinusH]

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?