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SAS (previously "Statistical Analysis System") [1] is a statistical software suite developed by SAS Institute for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, criminal investigation, [2] and predictive analytics.
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling, and in 1950 it was reconstituted as a corps. [5]
SAS Institute (or SAS, pronounced "sass") is an American multinational developer of analytics and artificial intelligence software based in Cary, North Carolina. SAS develops and markets a suite of analytics software ( also called SAS ), which helps access, manage, analyze and report on data to aid in decision-making.
SAS Group, Swedish airline holding company Scandinavian Airlines, stylized as SAS; SAS Institute, American developer of analytics and AI software; SAS (shoemakers), American shoe manufacturer; SAS (TV station), in Adelaide, South Australia; Société par actions simplifiée, a French type of business entity
A privately preserved Douglas DC-3 wearing SAS' late 1940s-style markings. The airline was founded on 1 August 1946, when Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik AB (an airline owned by the Swedish Wallenberg family), Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S, and Det Norske Luftfartselskap AS (the flag carriers of Denmark and Norway) formed a partnership to handle the combined air traffic of the three ...
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS).
Initially based in Tunisia, he led the 2 SAS during its operations in Sicily and during the Italian Campaign. [16] Stirling himself never went on an SAS raid. [3] In early 1944, 1 SAS and 2 SAS were recalled to the United Kingdom, from whence they launched raids on Nazi-occupied Europe in the run up to the Allied invasion of Normandy. [5]
SAS patrol in North Africa during the Second World War in SAS jeeps. The Special Air Service began life in July 1941, during the Second World War, from an unorthodox idea and plan by Lieutenant David Stirling (of the Scots Guards) who was serving with No. 8 (Guards) Commando. His idea was for small teams of parachute-trained soldiers to operate ...