SAS

The SAS facilities was hands down the largest and most technologically advanced place we have visited so far. It being the world headquarters their was literally a campus, they had over nine hundred acres and twenty two buildings on site. The buildings themselves were very high tech and had a solid atmosphere once inside. The service that SAS offers is a software that gathers data for companies and analyzes it so the companies can use it for their benefit. An example of this would be what items need to be sold at Wal-Mart; when to put them on sale and for how much off. The mission of SAS is to remain the world leader in advanced analytic software and to continue to innovate and increase revenue from year to year. For the past thirty six years SAS has remained a privately owned company that has sustained revenue growth annually. The typical SAS consumer ranges from the government to financial services. This companies software is used in almost every industry and is continuing to spread. Their product is not a one size fits all software, they customize the software for large and small businesses and for the use of the product. The customer values the leading software in the industry. Since this company is simply the best at what they do the customers value top quality material. The better the program works for them the more they can apply it to their business. The SAS employees function off a certain set of values that in turn help to customer reach ultimate satisfaction. These values are as follows; approachable customer-driven innovation, swift and agile trustworthiness. The company puts a lot of focus on the value of their employees and in turn the customers receive service and a product that is made by the best. The results of SAS has been a massive success. From starting in a small building in Cary to the world headquarters today we can see how vast the success has been. The SAS plan has always been to innovate, they want to create the next big thing before the customer knows that they need it. Our second speaker today talked about SAS’s newest plan that will be highly applicable in the very near future. Big data is very much on the rise right now and SAS is one of the only companies that has a program that can easily make sense of it all. As we saw in the demonstration today big data can be very useful to companies of any size. They plan to continue to advance in this field as they are seeing it as the next big thing.

One of the biggest points I think that they emphasized on today was the treatment and selection of employees. SAS being a privately owned company does not have to adhere to a strict code of guidelines, they simply have to do what the CEO thinks is best. With that being said the work environment that they function in is very casual and advantageous. They are given the resources that they need to make their time in the office copious and productive. With on campus sites such as; daycare, rec and fitness, and car detailing. The employees don’t have to go out of their way to seek the help that they need, everything is right in front of them. This allows them to have plenty of comfortable time to work and less time dealing with issues that otherwise would inconvenience them greatly. All employees receive benefits even the landscapers. In general the working atmosphere reminded me of a Google facility and seemed very pleasant to work in.

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