Date:         Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:28:18 -0700
Reply-To:     RolandRB <rolandberry@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         RolandRB <rolandberry@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: How many pharmaceutical sas sites are there?
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On Mar 19, 2:02 am, "Lou" <lpogodajr292...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "Chang Chung" <chang_y_ch...@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote in message
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> news:200803181507.m2IAlBvP026318@malibu.cc.uga.edu...
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> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:06:06 -0700, RolandRB <rolandbe...@HOTMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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> > >How many pharmaceutical sas sites are there? Roughly, that is. 100,
> > >500, 1000?
>
> > hi,
>
> > Interesting question. Let's see.
>
> > 1. it is definitely less than 44,000 since si says that it has 44,000
> > customer sites world wide (http://sas.com/)
>
> > 2. it is over 19 for sure because that is the number of fortune 500 pharma
> > companies in
>
> 2006.(http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/industries/Pharmaceu
> ticals/1.html)
>
> > and si says sas is the "the choice of 100 percent of the Fortune 500
> > pharmaceutical companies" (http://sas.com/industry/pharma/develop/)
>
> > 3. so it is somewhere between 19 and 44K for sure. Now for guessing part.
> si
> > lists 16 industries in home page (http://sas.com/) so 1/16th of the 44K or
> > 2,750 may fall into each one. assuming those sites are under "life
> science"
> > industry and I think 2,750 may be the best guess, given limited
> information.
>
> Out of curiosity, what's a "pharmaceutical sas site"?  My previous job was
> at a company that had over 40 offices scattered around the world, and
> numerous programmers and statisticians who worked almost exclusively from
> home, but almost all SAS programming took place on a single server located
> at one physical site - offices and individuals connected to that server via
> the web.  (Almost, because there were 4 licenses for individual laptops.)
> Do CRO's count as pharmaceutical sites?- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Yes, CROs count. By "site" I mean "sas licence site" which is what you
see when you run the code %put >>> &syssite >>>>;

I am in the long process of writing a graphical patient profiler and I
am wondering what sort of market there is for it and how I should
price it to make a return. It will all depend on pharmaceutical site
numbers and take-up percentage.