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| caption = WPS Workbench running on [[Windows 10]]

| developer = [[World Programming]]

| latest_release_version = 3.2.23

| latest_release_date = AprilDecember, 2016

| operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS XmacOS]], [[z/OS]], [[Linux on z Systems]], [[Linux]], Linux for Arm8 64-bit, [[PowerLinux]], [[IBM AIX|AIX]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]

| genre = [[Statistics]]

| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]

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

WPS is available to run on [[z/OS|Mainframe z/OS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS XmacOS]], [[Linux]], Linux for Arm8 64-bit, [[PowerLinux]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[IBM AIX|AIX]] and [[Linux on zSeries|Linux on Mainframe System z]].<ref name="Platforms – Summary">{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/platforms|title=Platforms – Summary|accessdate=3 February 2012|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/cli|title=Interface Module – WPS CLI|accessdate=3 February 2012|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

WPS on all other supported platforms (with the exception of the Mainframe z/OS platform) 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 (software)|Eclipse]].<ref name="Interface Module – WPS Workbench">{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/workbench|title=Interface Module – WPS Workbench|accessdate=319 FebruaryDecember 20122016|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

WPS version 3 (released in February 2012) provides 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|accessdate=3 February 2012|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

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== Summary of main features ==

{{Expand list|date=August 2010}}

* Runs on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS XmacOS]], [[z/OS]] on Mainframe System z, [[Linux on zSeries|Linux on Mainframe System z]], [[Linux]], Linux for Arm8 64-bit, [[PowerLinux]], [[IBM AIX|AIX]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]<ref name="Platforms – Summary" />

* An [[integrated development environment]] based on [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]] for allLinux, supportedmacOS platformsand except Mainframe z/OSWindows.<ref name="Interface Module – WPS Workbench" />

* Support for language of SAS elements.<ref name="Your Apps – Language Support" />

* Support for the language of SAS Macros.<ref name="Language Module – WPS Core">{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/core|title=Language Module – WPS Core|accessdate=3 February 2012|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

* Matrix Programming support using PROC IML.<ref name="Language Module – WPS Matrix Programming">{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/matrix_programming|title=Language Module – WPS Matrix Programming|accessdate=19 December 2016|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

* Multi-threading support.<ref name="World Programming System (WPS) – What is WPS?" />

* Support for generating band plots, bar charts, box plots, contour plots, dendrogram plots, ellipse plots, heat maps, histograms, needle plots, pie charts, reference lines, scatter plots, series plots and vector plots.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/graphing|title=Language Module – WPS Graphing|accessdate=11 January 2016|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

* Support for statistical procedures ACECLUS, ANOVA, BOXPLOT, CANCORR, CANDISC, CLUSTER, CORR, CORRESP, DISCRIM, DISTANCE, FACTOR, FASTCLUS, FREQ, GENMAOD, GLM, GLMMOD, KDE, LIFEREG, LIFETEST, LOESS, LOGISTIC, MEANS, MI, MIXED, MODECLUS, NESTED, NLIN, NPAR1WAY, PHREG, PRINCOMP, PROBIT, REG, SCORE, STANDARD, SIMNORMAL, STDSIZE, STEPDISC, SUMMARY, SURVEYSELECT, TREE, TTEST, UNIVARIATE, VARCLUS, VARCOMP<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/statistics|title=Language Module – WPS Statistics|accessdate=1119 JanuaryDecember 2016|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

* Support for time series procedures ARIMA, EXPAND, FORECAST, X12<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/time_series|title=Language Module – WPS Time Series|accessdate=4 April 2014|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

* Support for ODS.<ref name="Language Module – WPS Core" />

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* Actian Matrix (previously known as [[ParAccel]]), Access [[Direct access storage device|DASD]], [[IBM DB2|DB2]], [[Greenplum]], [[Apache Hadoop|Hadoop]], [[IBM Informix|Informix]], [http://www.kognitio.com/analyticalplatform Kognitio], [[MySQL]], [[Netezza]], [[Open Database Connectivity|ODBC]], [[OLE DB|OLEDB]], [[Oracle Database|Oracle]], [[PostgreSQL]], [[SAND CDBMS|SAND]], [[SPSS]]/[[PSPP]], [[Microsoft SQL Server|SQL Server]], [[Sybase]], [[Sybase IQ]], [[Teradata]], [[Virtual storage access method|VSAM]], [[Vertica]] and [[XML]].<ref name="Your Apps – Data Support" />

* Support for SAS Tape Format.<ref name="Language Module – WPS Core" />

* Direct output of reports to [[Comma-separated values|CSV]] , [[PDF]] and [[HTML]].<ref name="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|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/communicate|title=Interface Module – WPS Communicate|accessdate=4 April 2014|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

* Support for [[Apache Hadoop|Hadoop]] <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/interop_for_hadoop|title=Language Module – WPS Interop For Hadoop|accessdate=11 January 2016|publisher=World Programming}}</ref>

* Support for [[R (programming language)|R]] <ref>{{Cite web|title=Language Module – WPS Interop For R|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/interop_for_r|publisher=World Programming|accessdate=2016-01-11}}</ref>

* Support for [[Python (programming language)|Python]] <ref>{{Cite web|title=Language Module – WPS Interop For Python|url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/interop_for_python|publisher=World Programming|accessdate=19 December 2016}}</ref>

== Industry recognition ==