Company: BMS
Company background: Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is a global Pharmaceutical company that was founded in 1858. The company is headquartered in the U.S and has operations in more than 60 countries around the world. BMS is focused on developing innovative medicines that help patients fight serious diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and immunological disorders. Additionally, the company has made significant investments in research and development, with a focus on developing new treatments for serious diseases.
Contact: Rashad Rasul
Title: Director - Early Development ICN, Innovation and Standards Statistical Programming lead
Country: Switzerland
Award Category: Community Uplift Award
Tell how you've used SAS to have a positive impact on your community?
BMS has used the learning opportunities and relationships we have built with SAS to host internal and cross-Industry workshops for experienced statistical programmers in the US and Europe, which have had a positive impact on our community.
BMS has used the learning opportunities and relationships we have built with SAS to host internal workshops for our experienced statistical programmers in the US and Europe, which have had a hugely positive impact on our SAS community. By working alongside SAS, we were able to create a series of workshops that focused on advanced statistical programming techniques, visualizations and best practices. These workshops helped our team members to improve their skills and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.
Through these workshops, we were able to share knowledge and expertise with our colleagues and community, which helped to build a stronger and more collaborative team. By working together and sharing our experiences, we were able to develop new solutions and approaches to complex analytical problems, which ultimately helped us to deliver better results internally for BMS.
Overall, we believe that partnering SAS to host internal and external workshops had a positive impact on our SAS User community by helping to build a more skilled and collaborative team of statistical programmers. By sharing this growth mindset, we were able to improve our performance and deliver better outcomes for our patients.
What SAS products are you using and how are you using them?
We use a host of the products provided by SAS such as Base SAS, SAS EG and have experimented with SAS Viya
What was your most surprising discovery about your work?
The partnership we build between BMS and SAS which went beyond a traditional customer-client relationship and is a genuine collaboration between two engaged partners. It was not just a case of us re-using learning material created by SAS to deliver generic workshops, our partners at SAS had a genuine desire to understand what our gaps were, our existing knowledge and how they could bring maximum value to our engagements together. Within delivering the workshops they were also keen to hear and understand those problems being faced by daily users of SAS, and how they could work alongside us to answer the challenges and opportunities these discussions presented.
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