Scottsdale, Arizona (PRWeb) March 20, 2007 — Pragmatic Marketing^®, the standard for technology product management and marketing, reached a milestone this month when Michelle Wilkie, a product manager at SAS^® in Cary, NC, became the 40,000th person to attend one of Pragmatic Marketing’s product management and marketing seminars.

Michelle is responsible for OLAP Technologies and Visualization products at SAS and attended the Practical Product Management and Requirements That Work seminars in Raleigh, NC. Said Michelle, “I know that several hundred of my colleagues at SAS have attending this seminar and I see them use what they learned, every day in their jobs. I have been looking forward to attending this training for several months and it has been great.”

Recognized throughout the industry, Pragmatic Marketing training is regularly seen as a job requirement for product management and marketing positions in technology companies.

Phil Myers, President of Pragmatic Marketing said “The strong demand for our practical, market-driven training is a clear indication that leading technology companies are demanding results from their product management and marketing teams. Many of the 3,000 organizations that have sent employees to our training have standardized on our Pragmatic Marketing Framework as the best way to achieve success in the marketplace.”

As the 40,000th attendee, Michelle was presented with a portable GPS unit by the seminar instructor, Steve Johnson.

About Pragmatic Marketing
The standard for technology product management and marketing, Pragmatic Marketing teaches a practical, market-driven approach to creating and delivering technology products. Founded in 1993, Pragmatic Marketing has trained over 40,000 product management and marketing professionals with more than 90% of alumni indicating the training as essential or very useful to their careers. To learn more about our services, including public and on-site seminars, visit www.PragmaticMarketing.com or call (480) 515-1411.

About SAS
SAS is the leader in business intelligence and analytical software and services. Customers at 42,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight from data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations; research breakthroughs; and better products and processes. Only SAS offers leading data integration, storage, analytics and business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. Visit www.sas.com. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries.