Today was my favorite day so far. I spent the day with a salesman who specializes in the transportation industry, and boy was he good at talking. He went through the entire process of a sale for me, from doing the research to finding contact numbers to making the cold call to setting up a meeting to talking to the technical specialists to finally receiving credit for the sale! He also talked about the support process after the software has been installed, referring to the “loyalty” department that ensures that the customer stays happy and loyal to SAS. He also drew me a very interesting diagram on how the process of customers having data works and how that data is managed which was very interesting too; a picture of that diagram is below. At 2:00, he had a meeting which I couldn’t attend, so he dropped me off at the “Data for Good” presentation, put on by Reese’s job shadow I-sah. They talked about how SAS analytics is used to help the world in times of natural disaster and mass migration such as the earthquakes in Nepal or the Syria crisis. The entire presentation was incredibly intriguing, and at the end they asked if people with Iphone programming experience (like me) might be interested in helping with their app. I gave them my email and am waiting to hear back!
