Are you ready for Fall? We are!

Kirsten Hamstra
Kirsten Hamstra|August 30, 2010

It’s hard to believe that the summer season is winding down and cooler weather, fall leaves and football (Go Panthers!) is around the corner! Around SAS, we are gearing up for the fall conference season. I recently asked the fans of our Facebook page if they have ever attended a [...]

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SAS Global Forum is my Old Faithful

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 14, 2010

Contributed by Gary Meek, Director, Documentation Development My team at SAS has tried many different things to get customers to tell us how we can serve them better. We’ve contacted customers directly (with their permission), worked with other customer touch points at SAS like Technical Support, Professional Services, and Education. [...]

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Live from the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference

Shelley Sessoms
Shelley Sessoms|April 13, 2010

What do you get when you have a ballroom full of people discussing ways to make their companies better? Well, for one thing you get a room full of happy people, but for another you get a jam-packed day at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference. Analytics was a key [...]

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Covering Conferences: ENAR

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 30, 2010

Contributed by Chuck London, SAS Publishing Sales Representative I just returned from attending the 2010 ENAR Spring Meeting hosted at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel, home of the 2010 Super Bowl Champion Saints. From the moment I got on my connecting flight in Atlanta, you could tell that the [...]

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Live from PBLS

Stacey Hamilton
Stacey Hamilton|October 29, 2009

Our day started in the exhibit hall with a delicious Tex Mex breakfast and lots of visitors interested in buying the speakers’ books, which we have in stock for purchase. We have Wiley and SAS Business Series titles, including Thornton May’s The New Know, as well as titles by Malcolm [...]

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Live from M2009 - Day 3

Stacey Hamilton
Stacey Hamilton|October 28, 2009

Tuesday was a great day at M2009. I was able to talk to SAS Press author Randy Collica, who is working on a new edition of CRM Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner. I interviewed him and Curt Hinrichs, another SAS Press author, who is a coauthor of the [...]

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Live from M2009 - Day 2

Stacey Hamilton
Stacey Hamilton|October 27, 2009

I’m tired. But in a good way. We had a great day in the SAS Publishing booth. We had a lot—and I do mean a lot—of traffic in the booth, much of it thanks to the early-bird book giveaway special. And I got to talk to a lot of cool [...]

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Live from M2009 - Day 1

Stacey Hamilton
Stacey Hamilton|October 25, 2009

I had every intention of blogging daily from M2009 and PBLS, but I never found a free moment yesterday to write down anything. I don’t like to think about it because it makes me exhausted, but I think I stayed awake for 24 hours yesterday. After a delay in Dallas, [...]

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Representing at WUSS '09 (Western Users of SAS Software)

John West
John West|September 14, 2009

Last week I had the pleasure of representing SAS Press at the Western Users of SAS Software (WUSS) conference in San Jose, CA. As the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose is the perfect location for all things SAS to converge for an action-packed, three-day conference, including lots of pre- [...]

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Joint Statistical Meetings 2009: Highlights from SAS Publishing

Julie Platt
Julie Platt|August 24, 2009

We just wrapped up our work at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, where over 6,000 statisticians convened in Washington, DC. The theme for this year’s meeting was Statistics: From Evidence to Policy. Since I started working with SAS Press, I’ve made sure that JSM was one of the events that [...]

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