Integrating SAS® and Microsoft .NET for Data Analysis

摘要

Both the Microsoft .NET framework and SAS technologies are powerful development platforms in their own domain. The .NET framework is Microsoft's strategic initiative for server and desktop development for the next decade and includes many technologies designed to facilitate rapid development of Internet and intranet applications. On the other hand, SAS is the industry leader providing enterprise software for data analytics, data mining and business intelligence. SAS software is currently used extensively at RTI International in survey research for statistical analysis, data integration and reporting. This paper will show how to leverage the strengths of each platform to create integrated solutions in both desktop and web-applications. We will discuss what the .NET and SAS Integration Object Model frameworks are and will then talk about how to combine SAS and .NET data together. Finally, we will provide an example of how .NET uses SAS output to find parameter estimates to a simple regression model and then discuss some possible uses for this approach.