It was the early 1980s and I was returning a shirt to a store that got a lot of my business. As I stood at the counter, I thought of something I was learning in school – about how computers were changing everything, including shopping.
I pictured walking into this store with coupons sent to me based on my preferences.
The store would never run out of my styles, favorite colors or sizes.
They’d charge prices I’d pay, but still turn a profit.
Never did it enter my mind that I’d ever have a computer, let alone shop from one.
What a difference a few decades makes! My name is Beverly Brown and I welcome you to the SAS Customer Intelligence Community, for marketing innovators like you. Some of you probably used SAS to engineer the shopping experience I imagined so long ago. And now there's a community where you can talk about your work!
But, first things first. I invite you to register! Registering entitles you to enjoy all the features and benefits that make community life awesome, like asking and answering questions, earning badges and advancing through ranks. If you’d rather not publicly display your name in here, no problem. Create an anonymous username. Only community managers can see your registration info and email address. Want to change your username? Let me know and I’ll take care of it.
A few colleagues and I will keep an eye on things in here, making sure your questions are answered and that this community meets your needs.
Your part?
Ask your peers questions and benefit from their collective wisdom. When an answer is helpful, mark it as an accepted solution. Doing so rewards the fellow member who provided the answer and makes it easier for other users to find it.
Find answers. You may not have to wait on a reply! As you type your question, our community platform will serve up possible answers. Under the Customer Intelligence label in the SAS Communities Library, you’ll find product-specific info.
Share what you know! Answer questions, start discussions and propose the resulting threads as knowledge-base articles, “like” other users’ posts, and propose product improvements through the SASWare Ballot.
If you’re new in here, use these resources to acquaint yourself with the SAS Support Communities:
Drop by Getting Started for helpful videos and articles.
If you’d like to introduce a topic that doesn’t fit neatly on this or any of our other boards, head over to Have Your Say and post it there.
Got feedback on the community site itself? The Community Suggestion Box is where you can post your ideas and weigh in on other users’ ideas.
Now you know a bit about me and this community. What about you?
Introduce yourself.
When and why did you start using SAS?
What’s the most interesting thing you’ve ever discovered using SAS?
What would make your community experience amazing?
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