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Hi,
Same for me. But since I've been working with SAS since 1980's,
I sometime explain to the client how a SAS solution to his/her problem
would be and what are the advantages. But, I'd rather let SAS make its
own marketing.
Since we are talking about SAS marketing. I would qualify SAS marketing
on site as inexistant. My client "La Capitale" is thinking of dropping
SAS.
La Capitale bought Oracle and many Oracle products. The software bill
has grown
very big and they see SAS as a very expensive software. I've tried to
talk to some SAS reprentative about that, but they are invisible since
many years here.
The SAS office use to be in Montreal (250 miles away from Quebec) and
they never
show up here. Now they just open an office in Quebec, but nothing has
changed yet.
SAS even forgot about us when it's time to send updates. We asked for
the updates of SAS 6.12 TS050 since MONTHS and have not received it.
Now
how do you want me to explain a client that he should stay with SAS ????
My client has decided to go for Oracle for the datawarehouse and
SAS is still sleeping to death...
So much for SAS here... It's only a matter of time.
Regards,
Bernard Tremblay
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Edwards, Ellen wrote:
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> I don't contract "SAS" specifically, but rather, I contract my skill as,
> among other things, a prgrammer who uses SAS as a tool. I don't know if I
> speak for other contractors here, but my own goal is not, and has never
> been, to market SAS as a solution. SAS has their own sales and marketing
> department geared toward this end.
>
> -Ellen Edwards
> Consultant AT&T Wireless
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> > ----------
> > From: Doug Zirbel[SMTP:doug.zirbel@SUPERVALU.COM]
> > Reply To: doug.zirbel@SUPERVALU.COM
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 7:34 PM
> > To: SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Mostly to the SAS contractors among us
> >
> > I've been interviewing SAS folks for a SUGI paper on Marketing SAS At Your
> > Worksite (or something along those lines). I sent this out a couple of
> > weeks
> > ago and got a big '.' for a response. Perhaps it's not as interesting as
> > I'd
> > first thought, but let me more specifically redirect it: this is to all of
> > you
> > who do contract SAS and whose livelihoods and professional reputation
> > depends on
> > this sort of thing:
> >
> > How do you "sell" SAS (as a solution to a given problem) to a client?
> > Or don't you?
> > Would anyone benefit?
> > What advice do you have for them?
> >
> > TIA
> > Doug Zirbel
> > doug.zirbel@supervalu.com
> >
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