Many users call the set of applications that were developed by SAS Institute as "SAS Institute SAS", but these computer programs are in fact different applications used for business analytics purposes. SAS Institute is a software company that develops applications for the business industry, and most of these programs are useful for generating and storing statistical and numerical data from database software also created by SAS Institute. Other popular database applications are also supported by some of the business analytics programs from SAS Institute, and most of these applications are compatible with computers running on Microsoft Windows systems. Most SAS Institute/SAS applications are also integrated with functionalities that give users the ability to incorporate simple to complex mathematical calculations into the numerical and statistical business analytics information exported from supported database applications.