Community Champion of the Month - January, 2025

AltairLiz · February 10

The Community Team would like to introduce the January Champion of the Month, Philip Holland @Philip_Holland.

For 44 years Philip R Holland has been working with the SAS language. In that time, he has witnessed the evolution of usage of the language from mainframes to modern analytics environments used across all business sectors on all major computing platforms.

Philip has advised a broad range of clients in the UK, throughout Europe and the United States as an independent consultant and founder of Holland Numerics Limited, a SAS technical consultancy. A SAS user since 1981, he has worked on SAS applications on all the major computing platforms and has frequently presented papers on a wide range of topics related to SAS at conferences around the globe. He has also published 6 books about SAS programming and is writing more.

Philip is the editor of VIEWS News, the quarterly journal of the VIEWS International SAS Programming Community and has been a VIEWS committee member since 2002. He is a SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, a member of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Information Technology Practitioner.

Initially his interest in Altair SLC was sparked by the existence of a free Community Edition, which he used to write his book about Altair SLC, and he enjoys using the robust SLC software for SAS programming due to the modern and productive feature set offered through the Altair Analytics Workbench IDE. His SAS programming projects are varied, and he can achieve most programming tasks he needs with SLC quickly and easily. From a personal point of view, he loves solving puzzles, and finding a new programming platform for a programming language he knows so well has fed his puzzling appetite.

Please join me in congratulating Phil @Philip_Holland and thanking him for sharing his expertise with other members of the Community.

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Jocelyn · February 10

Congratulations @Philip_Holland Thanks for being a champion for Altair.

AltairLiz · February 12

Congratulations @Philip Holland. We appreciate your contributions to the Altair Community, the SAS language community and to Altair SLC.

oliverrobinson · February 12

Well done Phil, well deserved. I know your books and articles have required a great deal of your time and I recommend anyone interested in this area to go and take a look.