Dan Coates Named Sales and Marketing Director for new ASP Division of SPSS MR.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2001 With more than a decade of Internet business building and market research expertise, Dan Coates joins SPSS A statistical package from SPSS, Inc., Chicago (www.spss.com) that runs on PCs, most mainframes and minis and is used extensively in marketing research. It provides over 50 statistical processes, including regression analysis, correlation and analysis of variance. MR as sales and marketing director of their newly formed Application Service Provider (ASP) Division. With a focus on bringing the power of SPSS MR's software and services to an ASP environment for clients worldwide, Coates will enable online businesses to streamline their processes with powerful Internet-based solutions. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio “Cincinnati” redirects here. For other uses, see Cincinnati (disambiguation). Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. , Coates began his new position on April 16. "I started my career as a statistical analyst using SPSS software and am thrilled to have come full circle to join the SPSS MR team," Coates said. "I have spent the last three years developing ASP services and immediately recognized the opportunity for the upcoming Dimensions platform to serve as a robust and scalable infrastructure for marketing insight. I'm excited to leverage the software assets of SPSS MR to help others efficiently gain consumer insight at Web speed." Coates was founder and president of Eppointments.com and a co-founder of PlanetFeedback.com, both ASP-based businesses that pushed the envelope of consumer-to-business interaction and information gathering. A pioneer of interactive technologies within the marketing research community, Coates developed cutting edge practices and methods on behalf of Burke Marketing, Millward Brown Millward Brown is a market research company,[2] with its headquarters based in the UK. Millward Brown was the first company to provide continuous tracking studies, and has researched more ads and more brands than any other research company. Interactive and the Angus Reid For the football player, see . Angus Reid is a Canadian entrepreneur in the market research industry. He is CEO of both Vision Critical and Angus Reid Strategies, two affiliate companies based in Vancouver, Canada. Group, enabling companies such as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Viacom and Turner Entertainment Networks to develop online marketing insight. "Dan's unique market research and ASP experience will prove invaluable in assisting our clients as we work together to make data driven decision making affordable and effortless ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. . We are excited to
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About SPSS MR Businesses of all sizes drive their success using SPSS MR software and expertise for data collection, data management and insightful analysis and reporting. With a background in market research and business intelligence, SPSS MR offers an extensive technology suite with unrivaled breadth and depth, proven consulting skills and a truly global service through its international network of offices. About SPSS Inc. SPSS Inc. enables organizations to develop more profitable customer relationships by providing analytical solutions that discover what customers want and predict what they will do. The company delivers analytical solutions at the intersection of customer relationship management and business intelligence. SPSS analytical solutions integrate and analyze market, customer and operational data in key vertical markets worldwide including: telecommunications, health care, banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one , market research and the public sector. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has more than 40 offices, over 1300 employees and 2000 pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts. The phrase pro forma revenues of $198 million. The company also has received the following honors: No. 77 on Forbes 2000 list of the "200 Best Small Companies" and No. 12 on the 2000 DM Review 100; placed No. 16 on the 2000 Soft-letter 100, a ranking of the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ; and No. 115 in the 2000 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine; listed on Working Mother magazine's "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" for 2000. For more information, visit www.spss.com (http://www.spss.com). SPSS information is available on the World Wide Web through the SPSS Press Center at: http://www.spss.com/press |
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