Academic Research

Enhance collaboration. Empower researchers.
Advance innovation.

How SAS Advances Academic Research

Efficiently orchestrate the entire research life cycle using the SAS^® analytical research platform. Integrate disparate data from any system across academic, government and industry sources. Work in open source or SAS to amplify analytical outputs and impact. Centrally manage complex data security, integrity, governance and continuity.

Enterprise research platform

Trust in a flexible yet secure research platform that provides data storage, quality, governance, analytics and reporting in a single location.
Share data, code, analytic models and data visualizations across disciplines, departments and institutes or institutions.
Enable collaboration and data sharing with government and industry partners while maintaining necessary control over sensitive data.
Deploy SAS on-site, in any cloud or take advantage of our strategic partnership with Microsoft to maximize capability and storage in Microsoft Azure.

Open source access

Facilitate technology transfer to easily move SAS and/or open-source models from an R&D environment to real-world applications.
Leverage current data and analytic processes with seamless integration.
Access SAS distributed parallel computational resources from open source programming languages (R, Python, etc.) and web applications.
Execute analytics however you like – using APIs, in batch, in a private docker, etc. The choice is yours.

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Cross-industry expertise

Benefit from our domain expertise in fields such as: IoT, health, energy, environmental sustainability, agriculture, transportation, justice and public safety, social services, education, etc.
Access industry consultants, solutions and services across multiple industry verticals.
Run scenario analysis on models that impact broader society, such as improving community health outcomes, assessing climate risk, guiding data-driven public policy or creating early warning systems.

Data governance & security

Leverage comprehensive and complete security protocols for data for differing needs (HIPAA, FERPA, GDPR).
Secure data and metadata in a proven platform, reducing the likelihood of a breach or audit.
Provide an easy way to set up rules within a structure set by the institution.
Discover and track data lineage to ensure data quality and model integrity as multiple researchers or partners work with the same source data.

Why choose SAS^® for academic research?

SAS helps researchers and research institutions overcome common data challenges and advance the frontiers of science and innovation. Increase the productivity of faculty and students by facilitating access to research and analytical resources across the enterprise.

Control your data

Integrate disparate data and manage data quality from a single control point. Assign role-based access and actions to authorize specific tasks.

Secure more funding

Increase availability of data or leverage existing data resources to make grant proposals more competitive and increase funding awards.

Broaden analytics use

Democratize cutting-edge analytics to a broad range of users who may want to leverage a point-and-click interface or program in different languages (including open source).

Expedite publications

Accelerate data analysis to disseminate findings in peer-reviewed publications and other outlets more quickly.

Magnify impacts

Facilitate technology transfers (including patents and other intellectual property) to industry and expand the societal and market impacts of research innovations.

One of the [Plant Science Initiative’s] biggest challenges is our ability to collect and translate large amounts of complex data into useful information that can help researchers and farmers make better informed, real-time decisions. This new partnership with SAS will be pivotal in helping us harness the power of data to improve agricultural outcomes and provide global consumers a higher quality, more accessible food supply. Richard Linton Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences North Carolina State University