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SAS - the world's largest privately-held software company - acquired DataFlux in 2000 to extend its data warehousing capabilities by integrating data quality technology. "Poor data quality can compromise business decision-making when those decisions are not made on quality, cleansed data," said Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at SAS. "The addition of DataFlux and its technology to SAS' offerings gives customers yet another powerful, competitive weapon powering the efforts to better know their customers, suppliers, and their own internal operations."
Dr. Jim Goodnight, President and Chief Executive Officer, SAS
Dr. James (Jim) Goodnight is president, chief executive officer and co-founder of SAS. While a graduate student and later as a faculty member at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., Goodnight created a statistical analysis software system. Demand for his software became so strong that he dedicated himself full time to developing his product and serving his rapidly expanding customer base. His company, SAS, was incorporated in 1976.
Since that time, SAS - under Goodnight's visionary leadership - has introduced integrated software technology related to advanced analytics, business intelligence and data integration, and solutions to meet virtually any decision-support need in business, industry, government and academic computing. Since SAS' first year, Goodnight has overseen an unbroken chain of revenue growth, an exceedingly rare record in the boom-and-bust software industry. He continues to maintain several of the applications he originally wrote and remains closely involved in the company's day-to-day development activities.
Investing in people
Goodnight is also the chief architect of the company's renowned corporate culture. SAS' employee-friendly policies have led to an industry-low workforce turnover rate of approximately four percent a year. From SAS' world headquarters in Cary, N.C. to its 424 offices around the globe, the company's workplace is designed to nurture and encourage creativity, innovation and quality. Since the early 1980s - long before it was common - Goodnight supported such amenities as on-site child care, flex time, and centers for health care, recreation and fitness.
His commitment to progressive work/life programs has earned SAS national recognition and placed SAS near the top of Fortune magazine's “The Top 100 Companies to Work For” every year the rankings have been published. SAS has been featured in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, USA Today and Working Mother. SAS has also been featured on ABC's Good Morning America, CBS' 60 Minutes, Oprah, CNN News Stand and PBS' Livelyhood, for its forward-thinking corporate culture.