World Programming System

WPS can use programs written in the language of SAS without the need for translating them into any other language. In this regard WPS is compatible with the SAS system. WPS has a built-in language interpreter able to process the language of SAS and produce similar results.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/your-apps/language-support|title=Your Apps – Language Support|access-date=3 February 2012|publisher=World Programming}}

WPS is available to run on z/OS, Windows, macOS, Linux (x86, Armv8 64-bit, IBM Power LE, IBM Z), and AIX.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/deployment|title=Deployment|access-date=13 November 2019|publisher=World Programming}}

On all supported platforms, programs written in the language of SAS can be executed from a WPS command line interface, often referred to as running in batch mode.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/cli|title=Interface Module – WPS CLI|access-date=3 February 2012|publisher=World Programming}}

WPS can also be used from a graphical user interface known as the WPS Workbench for managing, editing and running programs written in the language of SAS. The WPS Workbench user interface is based on Eclipse.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/workbench|title=Interface Module – WPS Workbench|access-date=19 December 2016|publisher=World Programming}}

WPS version 4 (released in March 2018) introduced a drag-and-drop workflow canvas providing interactive blocks for data retrieval, blending and preparation, data discovery and profiling, predictive modelling powered by machine learning algorithms, model performance validation and scorecards.

WPS version 3 (released in February 2012) provided a new client/server architecture that allows the WPS Workbench GUI to execute SAS programs on remote server installations of WPS in a network or cloud. The resulting output, data sets, logs, etc., can then all be viewed and manipulated from inside the Workbench as if the workloads had been executed locally. SAS programs do not require any special language statements to use this feature.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/link|title=Interface Module – WPS Link|access-date=3 February 2012|publisher=World Programming}}

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• Runs on Windows, macOS, z/OS, Linux (x86, Armv8 64-bit, IBM Power LE, IBM Z), and AIX
• An integrated development environment based on Eclipse for Linux, macOS and Windows.
• Support for language of SAS elements.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language|title=SAS Language|access-date=10 April 2019|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for the language of SAS Macros.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/core|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Core|access-date=10 April 2019|publisher=World Programming}}
• Matrix Programming support using PROC IML.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/matrix_programming|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Matrix Programming|access-date=10 April 2019|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for generating band plots, bar charts, box plots, bubble plots, contour plots, dendrogram plots, ellipse plots, fringe plots, heat maps, high-low plots, histograms, loess plots, needle plots, pie charts, penalised b-spline, radar charts, reference lines, scatter plots, series plots, step plots, regression plots and vector plots.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/graphing|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Graphing|access-date=10 April 2019|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for statistical procedures ACECLUS, ASSOCRULES, ANOVA, BIN, BOXPLOT, CANCORR, CANDISC, CLUSTER, CORRESP, DISCRIM, DISTANCE, FACTOR, FASTCLUS, FREQ, GAM, GANNO, GENMOD, GLIMMIX, GLM, GLMMOD, GLMSELECT, ICLIFETEST, KDE, LIFEREG, LIFETEST, LOESS, LOGISTIC, MDS, MEANS, MI, MIANALYSE, MIXED, MODECLUS, NESTED, NLIN, NPAR1WAY, PHREG, PLAN, PLS, POWER, PRINCOMP, PROBIT, QUANTREG, RBF, REG, ROBUSTREG, RSREG, SCORE, SEGMENT, SIMNORMAL, STANDARD, STDSIZE, STDRATE, STEPDISC, SUMMARY, SURVEYMEANS, SURVEYSELECT, TPSPLINE, TRANSREG, TREE, TTEST, UNIVARIATE, VARCLUS, VARCOMP{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/statistics|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Statistics|access-date=26 August 2020|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for time series procedures ARIMA, AUTOREG, ESM, EXPAND, FORECAST, LOAN, SEVERITY, SPECTRA, TIMESERIES, X12{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/time_series|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Time Series|access-date=26 August 2020|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for machine learning procedures DECISIONFOREST, DECISIONTREE, GMM, MLP, OPTIMALBIN, SEGMENT, SVM{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/machine_learning|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Machine Learning|access-date=10 April 2019|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for ODS.
• Reads and writes SAS datasets (compressed or uncompressed).
• Access: Actian Matrix (previously known as ParAccel), DASD, DB2, Excel, Greenplum, Hadoop, Informix, [http://www.kognitio.com/analyticalplatform Kognitio], MariaDB, MySQL, Netezza, ODBC, OLEDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAND, Snowflake, SPSS/PSPP, SQL Server, Sybase, Sybase IQ, Teradata, VSAM, Vertica and XML.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/data_engine|title=Data Engine Modules|access-date=10 April 2019|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for SAS Tape Format.
• Direct output of reports to CSV, PDF and HTML.
• Support to connect WPS systems programmatically, remote submit parts of a program to execute on connected remote servers, upload and download data between the connected systems.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/communicate|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Communicate|access-date=4 April 2014|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for Hadoop{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/interop_for_hadoop|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Interop For Hadoop|access-date=10 April 2019|publisher=World Programming}}
• Support for R{{Cite web|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Interop For R|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/interop_for_r|publisher=World Programming|access-date=2019-04-10}}
• Support for Python{{Cite web|title=SAS Language Module – WPS Interop For Python|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/information/sas-language/modules/language/interop_for_python|publisher=World Programming|access-date=10 April 2019}}

Gartner recognized World Programming in their Cool Vendors in Data Science, 2014 Report.{{cite web|title=Cool Vendors in Data Science|url=http://www.gartner.com/doc/2716417|date=23 April 2014|access-date=April 30, 2014|publisher=Gartner}}

In 2010 World Programming defended its use of the language of SAS in the High Court of England and Wales in SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Ltd.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html|title=SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd|access-date=3 February 2012|date=23 July 2010}}

The software was the subject of a lawsuit by SAS Institute. The EU Court of Justice ruled in favor of World Programming, stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality, the programming language used and the format of the data files used by the program. It stated that there is no copyright infringement when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies, observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-02/copyright-can-t-block-software-reverse-engineering-court.html|title=Copyright Can't Block Software Reverse Engineering: Court|last=White|first=Aoife|publisher=Bloomberg|date=2 May 2012|access-date=2 May 2012}}

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