SAS Institute
8th January 2015
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With 13,718 employees worldwide, SAS Institute is the world’s largest privately held software business. Based in North Carolina, SAS develops and markets a suite of analytics software (also called SAS) that helps manage, access, analyse and report on data to aid in decision-making. SAS started as a project at North Carolina State University to create statistical analysis software, which was originally used primarily by agricultural departments at universities in the late 1960s. It became an independent, private business led by current CEO James Goodnight ( Pictured) and three other project leaders from the university in 1976. SAS revenues have grown from $10 million in 1980 to more than $3 billion in 2013.
