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55-494: NVivo is intended to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or unstructured data . Its developers state that it helps qualitative researchers to organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured or qualitative data like interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media and web content, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required. The software allows users to classify, sort and arrange information; examine relationships in

110-517: A 36.2 percent share and the fifth largest for business intelligence software with a 6.9 percent share. SAS typically sells its software with an emphasis on subscription models that include support and updates, as opposed to software licenses. Under its subsidiary, JMP Statistical Discovery LLC, SAS Institute also sells the JMP suite of statistical analysis software, which consists of JMP, JMP Pro, JMP Clinical and JMP Genomics. The SAS certification program

165-415: A Base SAS component that performs analytical functions and more than 200 other modules that add graphics, spreadsheets or other features. Some of the uses for SAS' software include analyzing financial transactions for indications of fraud, optimizing prices for retailers, or evaluating the results of clinical trials. As of 2012, SAS is the largest market-share holder in the advanced analytics segment with

220-780: A common framework for processing this information to extract meaning and create structured data about the information. Software that creates machine-processable structure can utilize the linguistic, auditory, and visual structure that exist in all forms of human communication. Algorithms can infer this inherent structure from text, for instance, by examining word morphology , sentence syntax, and other small- and large-scale patterns. Unstructured information can then be enriched and tagged to address ambiguities and relevancy-based techniques then used to facilitate search and discovery. Examples of "unstructured data" may include books, journals, documents, metadata , health records , audio , video , analog data , images, files, and unstructured text such as

275-437: A data model, generating summaries of subsets of documents (i.e., cells within a text cube) may be performed with phrase-based approaches. Biomedical research generates one major source of unstructured data as researchers often publish their findings in scholarly journals. Though the language in these documents is challenging to derive structural elements from (e.g., due to the complicated technical vocabulary contained within and

330-401: A forested area of Cary, North Carolina in 1980. Later that year, it began providing on-site daycare in order to keep an employee who had planned to leave her job to care for her child at home. By 1984, SAS had expanded the benefits programs it offered to employees and their families, and begun building a fitness center, medical center, on-site cafe and other facilities. SAS became known as

385-658: A good place to work and was frequently recognized by national magazines like BusinessWeek , Working Mother and Fortune for its work environment. The company began its relationship with Microsoft and development for Windows operating systems in 1989. Shortly afterwards it established partnerships with database companies like Oracle , Sybase and Informix . During the 1980s, SAS was one of Inc. Magazine 's fastest growing companies in America from 1979 and 1985. It grew more than ten percent per year from $ 10 million in revenues in 1980 to $ 1.1 billion by 2000. In 2007, SAS revenue

440-467: A limited corporate hierarchy and an egalitarian culture. As the company grew it created new divisions, instead of layers of management, creating a flat , simple organizational structure. According to professor Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford, there are only three levels in the organization and CEO James Goodnight has 27 people who directly report to him. The organizational structure is fluid and employees can change roles rapidly. Managers are involved in

495-852: A number of businesses to research applications, leading to the development of fields like sentiment analysis , voice of the customer mining, and call center optimization. The emergence of Big Data in the late 2000s led to a heightened interest in the applications of unstructured data analytics in contemporary fields such as predictive analytics and root cause analysis . The term is imprecise for several reasons: Techniques such as data mining , natural language processing (NLP), and text analytics provide different methods to find patterns in, or otherwise interpret, this information. Common techniques for structuring text usually involve manual tagging with metadata or part-of-speech tagging for further text mining -based structuring. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) standard provided

550-420: A pre-defined manner. Unstructured information is typically text -heavy, but may contain data such as dates, numbers, and facts as well. This results in irregularities and ambiguities that make it difficult to understand using traditional programs as compared to data stored in fielded form in databases or annotated ( semantically tagged ) in documents. In 1998, Merrill Lynch said "unstructured data comprises

605-400: A recreation and fitness center as well as life counseling services. It also hosts a summer camp for children and operates on-site cafeterias and cafes. 22.5 tons of M&Ms are provided each year, in jars that are re-filled every Wednesday. Similar amenities are provided at its other offices besides its headquarters. 95 percent of a company's assets drive out the front gate every night,

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660-406: A server to work on a project at the same time, was first released in 2010. NVivo was released for Mac in 2014. Mac versions of the software tend to have fewer features. NVivo 15 for Windows and Mac was released on August 27, 2024. Unstructured data Unstructured data (or unstructured information ) is information that either does not have a pre-defined data model or is not organized in

715-445: A statistical analysis system, in fact SAS originally stood for " Statistical Analysis System ", though it is no longer considered an acronym. It was originally used primarily by agricultural departments at universities in the late 1960s. It became an independent, private business led by current CEO James Goodnight and three other project leaders from the university in 1976. SAS is one of the largest privately held software providers in

770-429: A third of the campus, while the remaining acreage is mostly green spaces and bodies of water which are accessible by trails. SAS offers on-site day care services to its employees for 850 children for about a third of the normal cost. Medical services are provided to employees and their families for free and 80% of the cost is covered for specialists. Employees are encouraged to work 35-hour weeks and have free access to

825-523: Is an American multinational developer of analytics and artificial intelligence software based in Cary, North Carolina . SAS develops and markets a suite of analytics software ( also called SAS ), which helps access, manage, analyze and report on data to aid in decision-making. The company's software is used by most of the Fortune 500. SAS Institute started as a project at North Carolina State University to create

880-433: Is easily retrieved - then it is a filing system and - then it is in scope for GDPR regardless of being "structured" or "unstructured". Most electronic systems today, subject to access and applied software, can allow for easy retrieval of data. SAS Institute 35°49′37″N 78°45′44″W  /  35.82694°N 78.76222°W  / 35.82694; -78.76222 SAS Institute (or SAS , pronounced "sass")

935-426: Is tagged, but HTML mark-up typically serves solely for rendering. It does not capture the meaning or function of tagged elements in ways that support automated processing of the information content of the page. XHTML tagging does allow machine processing of elements, although it typically does not capture or convey the semantic meaning of tagged terms. Since unstructured data commonly occurs in electronic documents ,

990-399: Is where the second leg of growth of SAS over the next 50 years is going to be." SAS Institute has grown in revenue each year since it was incorporated in 1976. It had a revenue of $ 3.2 billion in 2022. About 20-30% of the company's revenues are spent on research and development , which is the highest ratio among software companies of its size. In 1994, Computerworld found that out of

1045-618: The University Statisticians of the Southern Experiment Stations . By 1976, the software had 100 customers and that year, 300 people attended the first SAS user conference in Kissimmee, Florida. Goodnight, Barr, Sall and another early participant, Jane Helwig, founded SAS Institute Inc. as a private company on July 1, 1976, in offices across the street from the university. Barr and Helwig later sold their interest in

1100-410: The domain knowledge required to fully contextualize observations), the results of these activities may yield links between technical and medical studies and clues regarding new disease therapies. Recent efforts to enforce structure upon biomedical documents include self-organizing map approaches for identifying topics among documents, general-purpose unsupervised algorithms , and an application of

1155-445: The CEO must see to it that they return the following day. SAS spokespeople say its employee benefits are provided for business, not altruistic, reasons. The company evaluates new benefits using three criteria: whether it would benefit the company culture, whether it would serve a significant number of employees and whether it would save more money than is spent on it. According to academics,

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1210-555: The CaseOLAP workflow to determine associations between protein names and cardiovascular disease topics in the literature. CaseOLAP defines phrase-category relationships in an accurate (identifies relationships), consistent (highly reproducible), and efficient manner. This platform offers enhanced accessibility and empowers the biomedical community with phrase-mining tools for widespread biomedical research applications. In Sweden (EU), pre 2018, some data privacy regulations did not apply if

1265-482: The Framework methodology. The antecedent of NVivo was NUD*IST (Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing, Searching and Theorizing), a software program designed for detailed analysis of unstructured textual data. It was developed by Tom Richards and Lyn Richards , with the initial version for DEC-10 released in 1981. In 1997, an updated version of NUD*IST was named N4. In 1994, Qualitative Solutions and Research Pty Ltd

1320-592: The US and 6,900 in Europe, Asia, Canada or Latin America. CEO James Goodnight owns about two-thirds of the company and co-founder John Sall owns the other one-third. In 2022, the company was included on Forbes ' list of the largest private companies in the United States, ranked by revenue. It was one of the largest privately held software providers in the world in 2023. SAS is well known for its workplace culture. The company

1375-563: The US. The company was No. 1 on Fortune's US list in 2010 and 2011. In 2015, Fortune ranked SAS No. 4 on its annual list of best companies to work for in the US; in 2016, SAS was No. 8 on the same list. It is also regularly in Working Mother Magazine's "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" list. The SAS headquarters in Cary is situated on a 900-acre campus with various on-site services and amenities for employees. Buildings comprise about

1430-523: The Watt Family Innovation Center at Clemson University , providing funding, access to software, and research. It develops, supports and markets a suite of analytics software also called SAS (statistical analysis system), which captures, stores, modifies, analyzes and presents data. The SAS system and SAS programming language are used by most of the Fortune 500 . The SAS software includes

1485-407: The body of an e-mail message, Web page , or word-processor document. While the main content being conveyed does not have a defined structure, it generally comes packaged in objects (e.g. in files or documents, ...) that themselves have structure and are thus a mix of structured and unstructured data, but collectively this is still referred to as "unstructured data". For example, an HTML web page

1540-559: The case was discussed in Oracle v. Google SAS introduced its first reseller program intended to grow sales with small to medium-sized businesses in 2006. Leading up to 2007, SAS provided funding and curriculum assistance to help start the Master of Science in Analytics program at nearby North Carolina State University . The company's cloud-based products grew in revenues by 35 percent in 2014 and

1595-545: The cloud with Microsoft Azure . This partnership has also facilitated co-engineering between the companies in the areas of generative AI and data management, such as integration between OpenAI and SAS' analytical systems. SAS also partnered with TMA Solutions in 2020, with the latter consulting on AI adoption. That year, SAS launched the SAS Software Certified Young Professionals in collaboration with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation with

1650-410: The company had invested between $ 50 million and $ 60 million into internal preparations for its IPO , which was estimated to take place in 2025. In May 2023, SAS announced its intentions to invest an additional $ 1 billion into AI applications for the banking, healthcare, and insurance industries over the next three years. The company's chief technology officer Bryan Harris stated that "[we] think this

1705-471: The company's practices improve the loyalty, focus and creativity of its staff. Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer from the Stanford Graduate School of Business estimated that the company saves $ 60–$ 80 million annually in expenses related to employee turnover. SAS has an annual employee turnover of three to five percent, while the software industry's average is 20 to 25 percent. According to USA Today ,

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1760-514: The company. During its first year of operation, SAS adopted a tradition of polling users for suggestions to improve the software through the SASware Ballot. Many of the company's employee perks, such as fresh fruit, reasonable work hours and free M&M's every Wednesday became part of its practices that first year. In the late 1970s, the company established its first marketing department. SAS started building its current headquarters in

1815-575: The construction of Building Q was completed late that year to house its corresponding operations. In March 2014, SAS launched its SAS Analytics U initiative to provide free foundational technologies and support to teachers and students. In 2019, SAS announced that it was investing $ 1 billion into further artificial intelligence R&D, as part of a broader push to develop software in the fields of machine learning , deep learning , computer vision and natural language processing . The investment will also fund related initiatives such as acquisitions and

1870-414: The creation of education programs to teach the public about the applications of AI. That year, SAS partnered with Nvidia to produce offerings related to AI and deep learning. Under that partnership, Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) and CUDA -X AI acceleration libraries will support SAS' AI applications and models. SAS partnered with Microsoft in 2020 to allow users to run their SAS workloads in

1925-479: The data in question was confirmed as "unstructured". This terminology, unstructured data, is rarely used in the EU after GDPR came into force in 2018. GDPR does neither mention nor define "unstructured data". It does use the word "structured" as follows (without defining it); GDPR Case-law on what defines a "filing system"; "the specific criterion and the specific form in which the set of personal data collected by each of

1980-493: The data; and combine analysis with linking , shaping, searching and modeling . The software can identify trends and cross-examine information in various ways using its search engine and query functions. NVivo accommodates a wide range of research methods , including network and organizational analysis, action or evidence-based research, discourse analysis , grounded theory , conversation analysis , ethnography , literature reviews , phenomenology , mixed methods research and

2035-420: The day-to-day work with their employees. Employees are given a large extent of autonomy and developers are encouraged to pursue experimental product ideas. Input from customers guides the company's marketing and software development. According to SAS, 80 percent of suggestions for product improvements are incorporated into the software. The dress code is informal. According to Fast Company , employees describe

2090-495: The downturn and hired aggressively to take advantage of available staff. In 2009, SAS filed a lawsuit against World Programming Ltd., alleging World Programming System —a software product designed to use the features of the SAS language—violated their copyright as it was reverse engineered from the functionality of SAS Learning Edition. The European Court of Justice ruled that functionality and language elements were not protected and

2145-416: The environment as "relaxed." Employees are encouraged to do volunteer work and the company makes donation to non-profits where employees are involved. The company primarily focuses its philanthropic efforts on improving education. It funds pilot programs for new education models, donates laptops and provides free online software for classrooms called Curriculum Pathways. The company is a founding partner of

2200-592: The extraction and classification of unstructured text. However, only since the turn of the century has the technology caught up with the research interest. In 2004, the SAS Institute developed the SAS Text Miner, which uses Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to reduce a hyper-dimensional textual space into smaller dimensions for significantly more efficient machine-analysis. The mathematical and technological advances sparked by machine textual analysis prompted

2255-459: The global datasphere will grow to 163 zettabytes by 2025 and majority of that will be unstructured. The Computer World magazine states that unstructured information might account for more than 70–80% of all data in organizations. The earliest research into business intelligence focused in on unstructured textual data, rather than numerical data. As early as 1958, computer science researchers like H.P. Luhn were particularly concerned with

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2310-494: The goal of training 500 students in programming, machine learning and analytics through online courses. In July 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that the semiconductor giant Broadcom was in talks to acquire SAS. In a July 13, 2021 email, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight stated that the company was not for sale. In July 2021, SAS announced that it was preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). As of September 2023,

2365-433: The members who engage in preaching is actually structured is irrelevant, so long as that set of data makes it possible for the data relating to a specific person who has been contacted to be easily retrieved , which is however for the referring court to ascertain in the light of all the circumstances of the case in the main proceedings.” ( CJEU , Todistajat v. Tietosuojavaltuutettu, Jehovan, Paragraph 61 ). If personal data

2420-497: The software to 400 schools in North Carolina. SAS funded its first advertising program in 2000 with a $ 30 million television and radio campaign. The company considered making 25 percent of its ownership stake available on the stock market and providing employees with stock-options during the dot-com bubble before the following downturn, but ultimately chose not to. SAS was one of the few technology companies that did well during

2475-413: The unstructured data contained within text documents. These workflows are generally designed to handle sets of thousands or even millions of documents, or far more than manual approaches to annotation may permit. Several of these approaches are based upon the concept of online analytical processing, or OLAP , and may be supported by data models such as text cubes. Once document metadata is available through

2530-455: The use of a content or document management system which can categorize entire documents is often preferred over data transfer and manipulation from within the documents. Document management thus provides the means to convey structure onto document collections . Search engines have become popular tools for indexing and searching through such data, especially text. Specific computational workflows have been developed to impose structure upon

2585-457: The vast majority of data found in an organization, some estimates run as high as 80%." It's unclear what the source of this number is, but nonetheless it is accepted by some. Other sources have reported similar or higher percentages of unstructured data. As of 2012 , IDC and Dell EMC project that data will grow to 40 zettabytes by 2020, resulting in a 50-fold growth from the beginning of 2010. More recently, IDC and Seagate predict that

2640-436: The workplace culture has created "intensely loyal" staff who care about the company's well-being. Even though there are unlimited sick days, the average employee takes only two. The 40,000 free medical visits provided to employees annually are estimated to cost the company US$ 4.5 million, but save it US$ 5 million due to the employee productivity lost when staff spend their work-hours in waiting rooms at other hospitals. SAS has

2695-642: The world's 50 largest software companies, SAS spent 2.5 times the industry average on R&D. It had customers in 145 countries as of 2019. As of 2010 revenues come relatively evenly from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. According to the company's 2014 financial reporting, its revenues are currently 46.7 percent from the Americas, 41.4 from Europe, Middle East and Africa, and 11.9 percent from Asia-Pacific. SAS has about 5,200 employees at its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, 1,600 employees elsewhere in

2750-422: The world, and the company's software is used by most of the Fortune 500 . The company's revenue grew from $ 10 million in 1980 to $ 3.2 billion in 2022. Historically, it has spent a notably higher proportion of its annual revenue on research and development than most other software companies. The Statistical Analysis System (SAS) began as a project at North Carolina State University 's agricultural department. It

2805-417: Was $ 2.15 billion, and in 2013 its revenue was $ 3.02 billion. By the late 1990s, SAS was the largest privately held software company. The Associated Press reported that analysts attributed the growth to aggressive research and development (R&D) spending. It had the highest ratio of its revenues spent on R&D in the industry for eight years, setting a record of 34 percent of its revenues in 1993, as it

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2860-504: Was originally led by Anthony James Barr in 1966, then joined by NCSU graduate student James Goodnight in 1967 and John Sall in 1973. In the early 1970s, the software was primarily leased to other agricultural departments in order to analyze the effect soil, weather and seed varieties had on crop yields. The project was funded by the National Institutes of Health and later by a coalition of university statistics programs called

2915-487: Was set up at and then spun out of La Trobe University to support the development and marketing of NUD*IST, and shortly after the release of N4 (NUD*IST Rev 4) it began working on a ground-up redesigned sibling product, with many more features, initially named NUD*IST Alive then branded as NVivo. Development of the original product continued alongside the new one, with the final version, N6, being consolidated into NVivo 7 in 2006. NVivo for Teams, which allows multiple users on

2970-496: Was used as a model for workplace perks at Google and is taught as a case study in management seminars at Stanford . SAS was identified as a "Best Company to Work For" in Fortune's annual rankings from the list's inception in 1997 until 2021, but after slipping in rank has failed to make more recent lists. In 2014, SAS ranked No. 2 on the elite Top 25 World's Best Multinational Workplaces list from Great Place to Work as well as No. 2 among Fortune's 2014 Best Companies to Work For in

3025-453: Was working on a new menu-based interface. In 1998, a larger proportion of its revenue was spent on R&D than at most other software companies; in 1997, this figure was more than double the industry average. SAS created an education division in 1997 to create software for schools, including the newly formed Cary Academy . In 2003 the Bank of America Foundation purchased and donated licenses for

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