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 From the desk of Cameron Dow, VP Marketing
First of all, on behalf of all of us at SAS Canada, we hope you
had a great summer and had the opportunity to enjoy some great
weather. It’s hard to believe that fall is now upon us! As we move
through the rest of the year, it is exciting to see the large number
of users group meetings planned across the country, and I encourage
you to attend the meeting in your area.
I am very proud of the work that SAS does in
partnership with our customers to
find new ways to meet the ever-changing
needs of users in Canada. We now
have user group coverage from coast
to coast with executive committees
set up in virtually all of the regional
users groups. We have added a number
of special interest user forums,
such as Activity Based Management
and Health and Data Mining, to better
meet the unique needs of users in
these areas. On the horizon is a
new Platform Users Group in Ottawa,
with a special focus on business
intelligence and data integration
topics, established as a direct result
of requests from our users and the
growth of the SAS® Enterprise Platform
solutions.
Another initiative we are excited about is the
expansion of our Academic Program.
As most of you know, SAS has been
part of the university landscape
for many years; however, we recognized that in order to better
support students learning about the value of analytics and specifically
learning about SAS in school, we need to make more of an investment
in this area. Additions to the program are still being finalized;
however, the focus of the program will be to support faculty and
researchers in developing their use of SAS in the classroom and
in their research work. We are also keen to expand SAS usage beyond
such traditional areas as mathematics, sciences, health sciences
and social studies, for example: SAS usage in undergraduate and
graduate business programs.
As we move into our planning cycle for 2008, I am looking forward
to developing new initiatives coming from SAS Canada in support
of our users. If you have any thoughts or creative ideas around
how we can continue to improve and grow our user support programs,
please feel free to send me an e-mail at cameron.dow@sas.com.
Thanks for being a great SAS customer!
Regards,
Cameron Dow
Vice President, Marketing,
SAS Canada
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