Jim Whaley Named National Sales Manager for SPSS MR; New Role Guides All Sales and Pre-Sales Activities for North America.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2000 Providing new leadership for sales nationwide, 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 has named Jim Whaley as national sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Formerly the Eastern region sales manager for SPSS MR, Whaley is responsible for helping market research agencies and corporations across North America benefit from the new technologies that can streamline their research processes. He assumed this role Nov. 1. "With Jim's marketing and technical background, in addition to his experience in the industry, I am confident that he will address the needs of our existing and future clientele, helping them achieve their goals with SPSS MR solutions," said Patrick Quigley Quigley is a surname shared by many people:
"This is an exciting time for the market research industry," Whaley said. "We have an opportunity to expand our reach and influence in the business decision process at all levels. I am excited by this opportunity to expand my role in helping businesses get the most value not only from their data, but from their process. Our team of account executives and technical consultants really understand the role of market research in today's world, and we are committed to providing customized solutions that will drive success." Prior to joining SPSS MR, Whaley spent 10 years running his own agency. Whaley Research, Inc., located in Atlanta, specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. in data collection and analysis for research agencies and research consumers in corporations. He started his career at 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) , where he spent seven years in sales and marketing.
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Jim Whaley Phone: 212.447.5300
National Sales Manager-North America, SPSS MR Fax: 212.447.9097
11 East 26 Street, 16th Floor jwhaley@spss.com
New York, NY 10010
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 unrivalled breadth and depth, proven consulting skills and a truly global service through our international network of offices. About SPSS SPSS Inc. enables organizations to develop more profitable customer relationships by providing analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. solutions that discover what customers want and predict what they will do. The company delivers analytical solutions at the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. 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 Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , 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 900 employees and 1999 revenues of $142 million. The company also has won the following awards: No. 77 on Forbes 2000 list of the "200 best small companies" and as the 22nd most profitable company on the Nasdaq exchange by Equities magazine; 1999 World Class Solution award in business intelligence and named "best decision support system for business intelligence" in the 1999 RealWare award competition; No. 14 in DM Review's 1999 Data Warehouse Top 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. SPSS information is available on the World Wide Web through the SPSS Press Center at: http://www.spss.com/press |
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