Blogging about all things SAS » SAS Graphs http://blog.saasinct.com :: Sharing with the world everything we discover about SAS. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:19:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Bad Graphs and Eating your own dog food http://blog.saasinct.com/2009/03/16/bad-graphs-and-eating-your-own-dog-food/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bad-graphs-and-eating-your-own-dog-food http://blog.saasinct.com/2009/03/16/bad-graphs-and-eating-your-own-dog-food/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:55:02 +0000 Shane Gibson http://blog.sasinct.com/2009/03/16/bad-graphs-and-eating-your-own-dog-food/ Interesting blog post over at Stephen Few’s Visual Business Intelligence blog.

He takes two vendors to task (one being SAS) for bad graphs/visualisation in their Marketing blurbs.

Well at least it wasn’t a pie graph ;-)

As an aside when I used to work at Oracle Uncle Larry came up with “Eating our own dog food” as the mantra for globalising the business into using Oracle Applications internally.

I much preferred Peoplsoft’s “Drinking our own champagne”, but then again look who survived! Goes to show Marketing isnt everything (and that is something SAS has proven for 28 years!)

Although (unless it has changed lately) I am always amazed SAS hasn’t globalised its internal systems in a single application, seems kind of archaic. But then again perhaps they have a really good Data Warehouse ;-)

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