SAS Customer Recognition Awards

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The SAS Customer Recognition Awards were created to recognize and reward SAS customers and partners who help us change the world through analytics. The awards will recognize customers and partners for their stand-out contributions over the past year. Not only do the awards celebrate our customers and partners, but they also highlight all the fantastic work they have accomplished. The winners will be announced at SAS Explore 2023 with the first-place category winners receiving one trip to the event*, a SAS trophy and SAS swag. We will ask each winner to create a short video to describe their winning submission for a compilation video to show during SAS Explore, held in Las Vegas.

Read on to learn about the different award categories and how to enter. Or watch the video below to see a tutorial on how to enter. If you have any questions, please reach out to communities@sas.com or wendy.reeves@sas.com.

*Visit the SAS Customer Recognition Awards page for the complete program description, rules and to submit an entry.

Award Categories

Distinguished Partner: Awarded to a SAS partner that exceeded the customer's expectations and was essential to the customer's success.

SAS Analytics Explorers Advocate: Awarded to a SAS customer who is leveraging the SAS Analytics Explorers program to grow their skills, their career and/or their network.

Community Uplift Award: Awarded to a SAS customer who has made an impact in their community at large using SAS products.

Innovative Problem Solver: Awarded to a SAS customer who uses SAS in innovative ways to solve a business problem.

Professional Growth Award: Awarded to a SAS customer who leverages SAS resources for personal professional development or for developing their team.

Rookie of the Year: Awarded to a new SAS customer (within the last 5 years) that is using SAS to make a positive impact at their organization.

ROI Rock Star: Awarded to a SAS customer demonstrating the greatest business benefit and return on investment (ROI) using SAS products.

Curious Thinker: Awarded to a SAS customer who embodies curiosity, one of SAS' guiding principles.

Visual Storyteller: Awarded to a SAS customer who has mastered the art of using data visualizations to help educate their company and tell a story about their data.

 

How to Enter

1. Visit the SAS Customer Recognition Awards page. Note that you will need to be a community member to submit an entry. Not a member? You’ll be prompted to join before you submit your entry.
2. Please review the program details and official rules.
3. After reading through the awards list, choose an award category you’d like to enter. You may only have one submission per category but are welcome to enter more than one category.
4. Click the orange Enter the Contest button at the top right of the page.
5. Fill in your company, company background, name, title, and entry title then hit the orange Next button. Leave the body box blank.
6. On the next screen select your category and then answer the questions below. Each question must be answered for your entry to be complete and open to voting and panel judging.
7. Next, hit the orange preview button to review your entry. Please attach a high-resolution version of your company logo using the camera icon. Please remove the red text after you add the logo. Choose size large and left aligned.
8. You may also insert other images, video or links to support your entry and at the bottom of the page you can attach supporting documents. Please also remove the red text at the bottom of the box.
9. When you are happy with your preview, hit the orange post button.
10. Your post will immediately go live and be open to public viewing.

 

What happens next?

The nomination process closes on June 2, 2023. The SAS Communities team will review all posts for completeness and may reach out to you with questions on your post. Any posts with inappropriate content will be removed. On June 12, 2023, online voting will open to the public. Votes will be cast by clicking the like button for the entry. The voting process closes on June 23, 2023. Judging panel voting will be complete by June 30, 2023. Winners will be chosen based on a combination of public votes and judging panel votes. A panel comprised of SAS employees and non-SAS members will score each submission on a 1-5 scale on three categories: spirit of story, strength of evidence and results. Winners will be calculated based on a combination of online voting and panel scores. Winners will be notified in July 2023. The Customer Recognition Awards site will be updated with all winners in September 2023 and first place winners will be announced to the public at SAS Explore in Las Vegas, September 11-14, 2023.

 

Timeline

Submit Entry Dates: April 3, 2023 – June 2, 2023

Voting Dates: June 12, 2023 – June 23, 2023

Panel Review Dates: June 26, 2023 – June 30, 2023

Winners Notified: July 24, 2023

Winners Announced: September 11-14, 2023, at SAS Explore

Winners: First place, second place, third place (pending quantity of entries)