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Side effects of working at a great place

I’m now into my 20th year of working for SAS. This year in November I’ll have my 20th “SAS-iversary” and thus mark the beginning of my third decade here. I’ve worked here since the Clinton administration. I’ve met SAS employees who were actually not yet born when I attended my […]

High-performance analytics: it may be a show, but it’s not an act

Last Friday morning I took a meeting with SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. Despite the hassle, I was happy to rearrange my busy schedule to squeeze him in. Ha! Just a little joke there about my inflated sense of importance! Actually, the meeting was part of a regular series called “Conversations […]

Splitting hairs among the ranks

This morning I logged onto my e-mail at 6:45 AM to learn that SAS was ranked as the No. 3 Best Company to Work For. No. 3 is not as high as No. 1.  But it’s very, very close.  Perhaps even barely distinguishable, in the larger scheme of things. I […]

SAS tops the list, again

I’m not even at work yet, but I’ve already learned that SAS has been ranked as the #1 workplace on the Fortune 100 list for 2011.

SAS was also number 1 last year in 2010, and has been high on the list since its inception.
I’m sure there will be c…

World Statistics, FTW!

Yesterday, I was in the #raganSAS audience as David Pogue told me What’s New and What’s Next in the world of technology.
David is a great presenter, and he really had the audience engaged as he talked about augmented reality,
his world according…