Cary, North Carolina-based SAS Institute Inc’s contribution to the proceedings will consist of five new component modules that will sit on its base analysis and reporting software package, most of which was already previewed at its European User conference in Vienna back in June. First of those is SAS EIS, an executive information system that turns numbers into graphs and simple pictures. It runs under Open Look or Motif, and users can go to systems running Ingres, Sybase, Oracle and Informix for their data, which can be extracted without the need to know specific SQL commands via SAS English, which translates statements into SQL. SAS Calc is a two- and three-dimensional graphical spreadsheet that can read data from other spreadsheets like 1-2-3. SAS Insight is a three-dimensional data analysis facility, while SAS Lab is an introductory statistical analysis package for non-experienced users. Prices go from $400 per module – plus $900 for the base SAS software – though they won’t be available until the second quarter of next year.
