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{{Short description|Data analysis software}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = World Programming System (WPS)
| logo =
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| caption = WPS Workbench running on [[Windows
| developer = [[World Programming]]
| released = {{start date and age|2002}}
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| operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[
| genre = [[Statistics]]
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]] | website =
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The '''World Programming System''', also known as '''WPS Analytics''' or '''WPS''', is a software product developed by a company called [[World Programming]] (acquired by [[Altair Engineering]]).
The program was the subject of [[SAS Institute lawsuit with World Programming|a lawsuit by SAS Institute]]. The [[European Court of Justice|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 cows. 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.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://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 | author = Aoife White | publisher = Bloomberg | date = 2012-05-02 | accessdate = 2012-05-02 }}</ref>▼
WPS Analytics supports users of mixed ability to access and process data and to perform [[data science]] tasks. It has interactive [[visual programming]] tools using data workflows, and it has [[Computer programming|coding]] tools supporting the use of the [[SAS language]] mixed with [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[R (programming language)|R]] and [[SQL]].<ref name="WPS Analytics">{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/home|title=WPS Analytics|access-date=10 April 2019|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>
==About==▼
▲== About ==
WPS
WPS
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.
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]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html |title=SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd |accessdate=3 February 2012 |author=[2010]EWHC 1829 (Ch) |date=23 July 2010}}</ref>▼
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Summary of main features==▼
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* Support for language of SAS elements.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/apps/language|title=www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/apps/language |accessdate=3 February 2012 |author=World Programming Ltd |date=2 February 2012}}</ref>▼
* Actian Matrix (previously known as [[ParAccel]]), Access [[Direct access storage device|DASD]], [[IBM DB2|DB2]], [[Greenplum]], [[IBM Informix|Informix]], [http://www.kognitio.com/analyticalplatform Kognitio], [[MySQL]], [[Open Database Connectivity|ODBC]], [[OLE DB|OLEDB]], [[Oracle Database|Oracle]], [[PostgreSQL]], [[SAND CDBMS|SAND]], [[SPSS]]/[[PSPP]], [[Microsoft SQL Server|SQL Server]], [[Sybase]], [[Netezza]], [[Teradata]], [[Virtual storage access method|VSAM]], [[Vertica]] and [[XML]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/apps/data |title=www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/apps/data |accessdate=4 April 2014 |author=World Programming Ltd |date=4 April 2014}}</ref>▼
* 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/communicate |title=www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/communicate |accessdate=4 April 2014 |author=World Programming Ltd |date=4 April 2014}}</ref>▼
▲== Summary of main features ==
==Industry Recognition==▼
[[Gartner]], Inc. recognised World Programming in their Cool Vendors in Data Science, 2014 Report.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cool Vendors in Data Science|url=http://www.gartner.com/doc/2716417|date=April 23, 2014|accessdate=April 30, 2014|publisher=Gartner}}</ref>▼
* Runs on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]], [[z/OS]], [[Linux]] ([[x86]], [[AArch64|Armv8 64-bit]], [[PowerLinux|IBM Power LE]], [[Linux on IBM Z|IBM Z]]), and [[IBM AIX|AIX]]<ref name="Platforms – Summary" />
* An [[integrated development environment]] based on [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]] for Linux, macOS and Windows.<ref name="Interface Module – WPS Workbench" />
▲* Support for language of SAS elements.<ref name="SAS Language">{{Cite web
* Support for the language of SAS Macros.<ref name="SAS Language Module – WPS Core">{{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}}</ref>
* Matrix Programming support using PROC IML.<ref name="SAS Language Module – WPS Matrix Programming">{{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}}</ref>
* 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* 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<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* Support for time series procedures ARIMA, AUTOREG, ESM, EXPAND, FORECAST, LOAN, SEVERITY, SPECTRA, TIMESERIES, X12<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* Support for machine learning procedures DECISIONFOREST, DECISIONTREE, GMM, MLP, OPTIMALBIN, SEGMENT, SVM<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* Support for ODS.<ref name="SAS Language Module – WPS Core" />
* Reads and writes SAS datasets ([[data compression|compressed]] or uncompressed).<ref name="SAS Language Module – WPS Core" />
▲* Access: Actian Matrix (previously known as [[ParAccel]]),
* Support for SAS Tape Format.<ref name="SAS Language Module – WPS Core"/>
* Direct output of reports to [[Comma-separated values|CSV]], [[PDF]] and [[HTML]].<ref name="SAS Language Module – WPS Core" />
▲* 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.<ref>{{Cite web
* Support for [[Apache Hadoop|Hadoop]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* Support for [[R (programming language)|R]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* Support for [[Python (programming language)|Python]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
▲[[Gartner]]
== Lawsuit ==
▲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]]''.<ref>{{Cite web
▲The
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