SAS grows in recession.

• Position: Triangle

While IBM is contracting, Cary-based SAS Institute Inc. is expanding, a beneficiary of businesses looking to cut costs with better data-mining software. It added 373 employees last year companywide--a 3.5% increase--and has broken ground on a 280,000-square-foot conference center, which will include 690 offices, two auditoriums, meeting rooms and a full-service cafeteria. Most recently, the world's largest privately held software company announced a $70 million, 38,000-square-foot...