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SAS customers often ask me "How do you use SAS?" My use of SAS is very limited these days, but my co-workers do some amazing things every day. We at SAS use SAS software to accomplish all sorts of business tasks and some purely entertaining ones too. (I'm sure you've seen the blackjack and Sudoku programs at SAS Global Forum.) No matter what programs and tools we create using SAS software, we are encouraged to share our feedback with developers and testers.

I have decided to highlight some our uses for you. You will find them under the SAS Using SAS category at the right. My first interview was with Emily Wallace, Senior Director of the SAS Knowledge Management Center. I asked Emily if she could tell me what kinds of applications her organization writes using SAS software. The answer: "We use SAS for everything!" Lucky for this blog post, she offered some great details. She provided so much interesting information that I have struggled to find things to cut! The following is what I kept from our interview for this post.

Reports are delivered to internal portals
The Knowledge Management Center manages three internal reporting portals that provide information of varying details to different levels of management and staff. Each morning after the corporate warehouse data is refreshed, batch jobs run and construct all the reports in each portal. These programs run on a variety of platforms (Microsoft Windows desktop, Windows server, UNIX, Linux, and z/OS) and use tried-and-true SAS elements and procedures, such as DATA steps, PROC SQL, PROC GCHART, PROC SORT and others. The generated reports are used daily to manage and influence sales and business decisions.