She received a BS in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970, and an MD cum laude in 1992.
[4] The company develops the SAS System of software, which is used for data management, analytics and machine learning.
[5] Goodnight and Barr had originally developed SAS as a research project at NCSU, but it quickly evolved into a larger business.
[8] Helwig and the other founders used side income from consulting to cover the company's expenses during its first year of operation;[9] it would go on to have a global revenue of $3.2 billion in 2021.
The company implemented subsidized on-site childcare to make it easier for employees to raise children while working at SAS.