SAS Institute Announces Quality Center
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SAS Institute Inc., a market leader in integrated data warehousing and decision support, has announced the development of its Quality Center.
According to Dr. Robert Rodriguez, director of the Quality Center, "The Quality Center at SAS Institute is comprised of professionals who serve as strategic partners for companies seeking enterprise quality improvement. The Center combines the Institute's expertise with its most advanced technology in the areas of statistical quality improvement, data warehousing and data mining."
Because every business has different needs, the Quality Center draws from a team of industry experts, business consultants and software developers who work closely with a company to develop and implement quality improvement solutions.
"These solutions address problems such as process optimization and management, and reducing the cost of poor quality," notes Donna Fulenwider, business manager of the Quality Center.
The Center provides solutions that grow and evolve as business needs change. Also, the Quality Center employs a sound and proven methodology that produces success. Customers quickly benefit from the Quality Center, using newfound business knowledge to develop better products, processes and services that give them a competitive advantage in their industry.
The formation of the Quality Center satisfies the need for enterprise quality solutions, a comprehensive approach not addressed by "off-the-shelf" software. This approach to quality improvement is essential as processes and products have become increasingly complex, generating massive volumes of data from multiple data sources. The Center's framework moves a company along a continuum to total enterprise-wide quality improvement ranging from: statistical process control, transforming and analyzing data for process management, and employing data mining for process discovery.
As a leader in analytical applications and information delivery for over 23 years, SAS Institute is uniquely qualified to solve these enterprise quality improvement challenges. The Quality Center is the key to making the right decisions at all levels of the enterprise to improve the quality of products, processes and services.
To learn more about the SAS Institute Quality Center, see our Web site at: http://www.sas.com/qualitycenter.
About SAS Institute
SAS Institute, one of the top 10 independent software vendors, is the leader in decision support and data warehousing, providing integrated enterprise information-delivery solutions. The Institute markets packaged business solutions for vertical industry and departmental applications, as well as an integrated suite of software tools that allow companies to transform the wide variety of data within their organizations into information that business users and researchers need to make better decisions. SAS software and services are used at more than 33,000 business, government and university sites in over 115 countries. Founded in 1976, SAS Institute is the world's largest privately held software company with 1998 annual revenue of $871 million.
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