SAS Institute's revenue share 2019, by region

In 2019, SAS Institute (short for Statistical Analysis System) generated almost 50 percent of its software revenue in the Americas region. The company's revenue in that year was 3.1 billion U.S. dollars, of which SAS reinvested 27 percent in research and development. This share is significantly higher than with most other software companies.

SAS is one of the leading analytics software providers

With a share of more than 25 percent, SAS Institute is the leading vendor in the global advanced and predictive analytics software market, where SAS competes with IBM, MathWorks, and Microsoft for market share. SAS also holds single to double-digit percentages in all other segments of the overall big data and analytics software market, including BI and analytics tools, artificial intelligence software platforms, analytic data integration and integrity software, and customer relationship analytics applications. The company's share of the overall big data and analytics software market stands at around five to six percent, putting SAS amongst the top five vendors behind Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and IBM.

90 percent of Fortune 500 companies use SAS products

The SAS Institute developed out of a project at the agricultural department at the North Carolina State University in the 1960s. The company's current CEO James Goodnight and other participants of the project established it as a private company in 1976. As of 2019, the company had 13,939 employees worldwide, selling and providing its software analytics products and services to customers in 147 countries. The company's software is installed at more than 83 thousand government, university, and business sites and is used by more than 90 percent of the top companies on the 2019 Fortune 500 list.