SAS/ETS® Software
What is SAS/ETS software? SAS/ETS software offers a broad array of time series, forecasting and econometric techniques enabling you to model, forecast and simulate business processes for improved strategic and tactical planning.
Why is SAS/ETS software important? SAS/ETS software equips you to address difficult, real-life questions by providing techniques to model complex business scenarios and analyze the dynamic impact that specific events might have on the business over time.
For whom is SAS/ETS software designed? SAS/ETS software is designed for forecasters, econometricians and analysts responsible for or supplying information to business planning processes and decisions. SAS/ETS is desirable for anyone needing breadth and flexibility to address their modeling, forecasting and simulation needs.
Key Benefits
- Analyze the impact of promotions and events. The time series and econometric capabilities of SAS/ETS software provide users with several mechanisms for determining promotional lift. The depth and flexibility of the SAS modeling environment can accommodate any business scenario.
- Gain the information needed to make better staffing decisions. SAS/ETS software can provide forecasts of demand for services, so that organizations can maximize staff resources. SAS forecasting software can automatically account for seasonal fluctuations and trends, and can select the best method for generating the demand forecasts.
- Model customer choices. SAS/ETS software enables you to maximize marketing efforts by understanding which product features are important to a particular audience. Modeling customer choices allows accurate adjustment of marketing strategies or fee structures to influence customer choices or target the right population.
- Accurately measure and predict marketing investment activities. SAS/ETS software can help you understand which key business drivers are having the highest impact on consumer demand. Using modeling, simulation and optimization tools, you can maximize investments to drive profitable volume growth.
Key Features
- Explore time-stamped data for insight. By providing graphical and analytical exploration capabilities for time-recorded data, SAS/ETS software helps you uncover and quantify previously undetected trends. Special data management capabilities are provided for time-recorded data.
- The Time Series Forecasting System is a point-and-click interface that provides interactive exploration and forecasting of data collected over time. It enables novice forecasters to quickly master the forecasting process and provides a robust set of tools for more experienced forecasters.
- Extensive array of forecasting methods. SAS/ETS software provides analysts with a broad array of methods to suit any forecasting problem. The forecasting capabilities in SAS/ETS software can be accessed either through SAS procedures or from the interactive Time Series Forecasting System user interface. Forecasting methods include regression, unobserved components models, trend extrapolation, exponential smoothing, Winter’s method, ARIMA (Box-Jenkins), and dynamic or transfer function models.
- Econometric analysis is the application of statistical techniques to “economic” problems. SAS/ETS software includes many econometric analysis capabilities ranging from linear and nonlinear modeling of simultaneous equations to discrete choice models.
- Simulation for strategic forecasting and planning. For strategic planning, SAS/ETS software provides a variety of means for modeling business processes. Complex systems and processes can be simulated and a variety of scenarios can be tested, giving you a safe means for evaluating and fine-tuning proposed policies before actually putting them into practice.
For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the SAS/ETS Software Fact Sheet. 
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