SAS Synergy vol 3 issue 5

SAS SYNERGYVol 3. ISSUE 05// Thursday, 10 October 2013

The MD’s Corner

SAS at Gartner Symposium ITxpoThe SAS Team were in full force at the annual Gartner Symposium ITxpo held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa 16-18 September 2013. As a recognised leader in Business Intelligence, it was only fitting that we showcase our muscle with advanced analytics. To do this we addressed the top technology priorities of CIOs with the latest in touch technology on our stand with the support of our Cape Town colleagues. Further we hosted Founder and Chairman of ZapFi, Gery Pollet from Belgium. ZapFi is an intelligent mobile solutions company that is prolific in its use of SAS throughout Europe. Gery gave an adapted PBLS Amsterdam presentation to the attending delegates on “Influencing consumer acquisition and loyalty through actionable insights and targeted location-based mobile marketing”. Our participation brought about many interactions, new business and networking that is sure to continue positioning SAS as a market leader.

Well done on the great finish of Q3! I am very proud of our team! And now it’s the final quarter and this is when it all counts…the finish! I could not have asked for a better start and for this I thank each one of you. Please try and attend Friday 11 October’s company meeting where we will share with you what’s required to finish strong! Each Account Executive will go through the remaining deals for this year and detail what support is required from each of us to close these out. I want to pay out 100% of the financial portion of your bonus plan! Help me do this! See you on Friday!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us

We ask ourselvesWho am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,

talented, fabulousActually, who are you not to be

Your playing small does not serve the world

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking

So that other people won’t feel insecure around you

We are all meant to shine, as children do

We were born to make manifest The glory that is within us

It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone

And as we let our own light shine We unconsciously give other people

permission to do the sameAs we’re liberated from our own fear Our presence automatically liberates

others.

OUR DEEPEST FEAR BY MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

ELL US ABOUT YOURSELF I was born and raised

at Fochville. I came to

Jhb in 1996 and started working for Berco (a cleaning company) in 1999, they assigned me as a cleaner at SAS from that year and was absorbed by SAS in 2008

as a Supervisor to the cleaners.

HOW HAS YOUR EXPERIENCE BEEN AT SAS SO FAR?SAS is a great company to work for, the managers are considerate and accommodating, I enjoy what I do and I’m happy for the growth that I have received since working for the company  

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE THING TO DO WHEN YOU ARE NOT AT WORK?Being with my daughter,

Welcome to SAS!!!

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Meet Martha Maduna

APPROACHABLE We make it easy for people to know us. warm, relaxed, accessible

CUSTOMER DRIVEN We know our customers. passionate, attentive, knowledgeable

SWIFT AND AGILE We can adapt to a changing world. modern, flexible, energetic

INNOVATIVE We explore new possibilities. imaginative, inventive, creative

TRUSTWORTHY People can count on us. confident, reliable, clear

COMPANY VALUES

PERSONALITY

TRAITS&

wishing you the BESTbirthday ever!

Kugen ReddyRon Ruiters

Fernando FeiteiraLeonard Browne

Nutan Kessa

she is only 1 year 9 months old and is a handful, she’s walking and talking already and it’s wonderful to see the world through her eyes. She keeps me on my toes.

WHAT WORDS DO YOU LIVE BY? If you argue with a fool, you become a fool

WHAT THREE THINGS ARE ON YOUR BUCKET LIST?• Buying myself a car• Buying a house• My daughter to have

an education and go to university

Gugu and Patricia

We have achieved the Standard of Excellence award and will be receiving detailed feedback on our results between the end of October and the end of November which will be shared with everyone.

Congratulations

Coming Soon…

Congratulations to Sisanda Msimang for qualifying as SAS SA’s 1st Female Certified Platform administrator.

There are 8 Certified Platform Administrators in the South Africa and she is the only SAS employee! You go girl!!

Matthew on 2 wins at Standard Bank

Jon at Santam

Veronica at PWC & KPMG

Zoe at Foschini

SOME HUMOUR…

sas® forumJOHANNESBURG 2013Our annual SAS forum took place on Wednesday and Thursday, 2nd and 3rd October 2013 at The Campus in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The 5–star graded conference and event venue hosted almost 400 delegates, speakers and media personnel over the two days. Jeremy Maggs facilitated the morning sessions on day one. This consisted of the

Executive panel discussion and the “Are you smarter than SAS” game show which got everyone excited for the remainder of the event.

Overall there were 35 tracks, 56 demo sessions, 9 international presenters and 6 amazing prize giveaways.

Some of the solutions that were

covered at the Forum were: Predictive Analytics, Procurement Fraud, Social Media Analytics, SAS Education and Public Security to name a few.

A Big thank you goes out to everyone for working together in order to make this event such a huge success.

Are you the voice of SAS?We are looking for someone to do our voice overs for the SAS telephone holding system. Are you articulate and have the ability to use your voice for different types of delivery? Interested ? You need to:

Record yourself on your phone reading a paragraph

(not more than 5 lines)Email your recording to Naledi in Marketing before Friday 25 Octo-ber 2013, or come to marketing so we can record you.The chosen person will record the voice overs in a recording studio (and you never know which celebrities we could bump into whilst we are there).

The World Year of Statistics, a global initiative was celebrated at UP on 3 October 2013 with a gala event, hosted in the Aula Foyer. This initiative at UP aimed to pro-mote awareness and importance of statistics across all fields, and in the daily life of all associated with UP. A wide array of dignitaries were present from SAS Institute, StatsSA, the National Research Foundation, and various other companies and representatives from industry.

As part of these celebrations, a competition (WYSUP2013 com-petition) was launched by the De-partment of Statistics earlier this year, with a theme of “Unexpected Statistics”. Entries had to be visual in nature and exhibit statistics in a relevant way. Michaela Gioco-vazzi, a 2nd year BSc Actuarial Science student, came out on top to win the grand 1st prize of R 15 000 cash (generously sponsored by The SAS Institute).

Ms Giocovazzi’s entry was a can-vas, the size of a door, with over a 1000 white origami shirts pasted on it – with one single red shirt – her unexpected statistic.

SAS was the sponsor for this event and their continued involvement resulted in its remarkable success.

The World Year of Statistics

Linky’s Baby Shower

Heritage Day