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Alli Soule
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Social Media Employee Engagement & Education Specialist

My main goal in life (at SAS) is to make sure employees feel relaxed and self-assured when using social media in their jobs. What’s that look like? A lot of LinkedIn profile audits. An internal blog series called #TipOfTheWeek on topics like time hacks using Buffer. Explaining personal versus professional social media use (and all the gray in between). Teaching is a big part of the job, but my pride and joy is The 140: our training-heavy and platform-light employee advocacy program, comprised of the most impressive and gracious people at SAS. So, what are the things you'll see me post about? Employees, most likely, along with references to my favorite things like Scotland, my beloved Demon Deacons, and a certain dog genius named Oscar.

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What Colin Powell and Jim Goodnight have in common

Retired four-star General Colin Powell discussed the traits he shared with SAS CEO Jim Goodnight during his morning keynote at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference yesterday. Among them: A clear passion for education, an appreciation for information and a sincere leadership style. “I’d like to talk about something that’s important in

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'You are modernizing. And SAS is modernizing as well.'

SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Jim Davis welcomed the Opening Session audience at SAS Global Forumall too appropriately: by using text analytics to create a word cloud, based on CEO Jim Goodnight’s remarks just minutes before. And he honed in on a word that stood out to

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Forecasting with 15,000 variables and 7,000 models

How does a $55 billion company get a sense of its demand when it operates in virtually every market – from paint to electronics – on a global scale? That’s the question Timothy D. Rey answered during a presentation on how his company, Dow Chemical, used a data mining approach