Last year at this time, I wrote in celebration of a unique double: SAS’ record revenues – the 34th straight year of growth, and in a recession, too – and being rated the No. 1 best workplace in the US. Would it be such a surprise if SAS repeated on [...]
It’s only February and we’ve already had a pretty exciting year at SAS. Today it got even more exciting with the announcement of the Accenture SAS Analytics Group. I’m especially excited because this feels like the logical culmination of the most important themes I see in our marketplace for the [...]
By now you’ve probably heard that SAS was ranked number one on Fortune magazine’s list of the best companies to work for in America. Don’t worry, this isn’t a self-congratulatory post. I’ve been giving some more thought to what this award actually means, and the responses it has generated. When [...]
Today SAS Institute had a huge double play of publicity. On the same day, we (1) learned that SAS was rated the No. 1 best place to work in the 2010 Fortune study and (2) announced that SAS achieved record revenues in 2009, despite the recession — making it 34 [...]
Today is the 20th anniversary of JMP’s first release, and I want to thank everyone who has helped to make JMP a success. JMP Version 1 shipped on October 5, 1989 — or as we claimed at the time September 35 — so that we could say we shipped in [...]
I often wonder what the life of a CMO is like in a publicly-traded company. From a marketing standpoint they’re constrained by SEC, Safe Harbor and Sarbanes-Oxley. They have to be very cautious in their forward-looking statements. Does that suppress their ability to paint a vivid picture for their customers? [...]
We’ve gotten a lot of attention since the IBM acquisition of SPSS for being a privately-held company and our desire to stay that way. While looking at all the coverage we’ve gotten, I keep coming back to an analogy made by Mary Hayes Weier in her InformationWeek post, “SAS Institute: [...]
From the start of this blog, I’ve talked about the value of analytics for companies who want not only to survive the economic downturn, but come out of it stronger. Today we learned that IBM is acquiring SPSS. Not only is it further validation of the value of analytics, but [...]
In my last post I talked about the value of employee loyalty, and how it has a direct relationship to innovation. Having loyal employees doesn’t do you any good if you don’t listen to them. You have to empower the people in the organization to make their own change. Provide [...]
I moderated a panel at our Premier Business Leadership Series event with our CEO Jim Goodnight and David Brennan, CEO of Astra Zeneca. As a drug company, Astra Zeneca lives and dies by innovation. They need to make sure they have new drugs in the pipeline to replace the revenue [...]
