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JMP Premier Technical Summary
Laura A. Higgins, Ph.D.
June 8 – June 29, 2018
This summary is published on the JMP Community website in the Premier Accounts Library:
https://community.jmp.com/t5/Premier-Accounts-Library/tkb-p/premier-tkb
Grey items previously reported and considered finished and roll off in the next report or when completed
Black items current and ongoing
Summary of high level activities
Multiple Accounts
- Planning upcoming JMP Days: P&G (OH), team working on Q3, Q4
- Mastering JMP Webcast – SE Asia (time zone specific) – Bernd and Gail – High participation of Premier Accts. (Global Foundries, Micron, NXP, Intel, Western Digital – 5 different topics
Account Level activities
- Bank of America: regular JMP demos – process optimization and internal marketing (Quantitative Analytics from Kaiser Fung seminar)
- Bank of America: working with JMP admin to get process for JMP trial
- Bank of America – JMP Pro 8 user opportunity (2nd-3rd quarter)
- Dow: Europe JMP Day in Germany – late June 26 (local support) Martin, Elias, 22 attend, salesforce notes https://na79.salesforce.com/7011O00000286vg?srPos=0&srKp=701
- First Solar: Uday support for JMP prototype (pre-SAS solution) included: Tech Support, JMP Community, Customer Care, Account Team, SAS (SAS Account team is using as a vehicle to accelerate SAS role in this project, NDA currently puts on hold) – rolled into Community discussion. Follow-up – internal scripter in First Solar and SAS follow-up – OR Center of Excellence (Jeff to reach out to Ivan at SAS)
- Lilly – webex to Process Monitoring Analyst, Manufacturing & Quality DIA (Data, Integration, Analytics) Group Leaders [SAS 7612467057] – contact about JMP features using database – Laura did webex database, Query Builder, etc. Doing something manually in and out of database – this group supports scientists that use JMP and JMP scripts. Discoverant use today.
- Lilly: Very Successful JMP Day (May 23) - presenters: Laura, Chris K, Jeff, Dan V. Good representation across functional areas (Elanco and Lilly) – production, product development, strong users, interaction with top level support (Statistics Scott Clack) for this event. Nice dinner with 8 customers. People came from all over the US to this event (remote workers). Positive Survey – cover basics is always good. 2 good lightning talks. If Elanco gets spun off need internal JMP Champions to lead JMP Day (Sam Gardner would go with Elanco). Elanco is 600 of 2600 licenses.
- Merck – Call and upcoming webex– New in JMP 14 - Lori Pfahler, Director of Center for Mathematical Sciences – her staff meeting, her group is all MS, PhD Stats. Lots of JMP, R, SAS
- P&G: JMP Share Demo – Dan V. to Scott Reese and Michael Joner. Lukewarm reaction. Not positive for beta test – maybe once we can get them to host it internally. We need to build business case, provide example of where they could use jmp.share.com (i.e. blogging) Lou – example for supplier pushing info into customer
- Seagate, Bloomington, MN - JMP Pro order (1 copy MN) – yield analysis. Ireland – waiting on US P.O. to complete for in country purchase.
- Seagate, Bloomington, MN - JMP Day – very successful – more people came than registered! Good participation at JMP help lounge. Groups represented: Lots of intermediate to higher level JMP use for skill set. Lots of scripting questions at the help lounge. Self identified slightly lower than actual skill level. 90-ish at one point, more during the day – standing room only. Is DOE use there. This group make the heads for hard drives, San Jose makes the drives. Good turnout, good energy by users, good help lounge participation. DOE usage is good, didn’t want to talk about it too much. Presenters Stan, Bill, Laura. Computer experiments. Had dinner after – 10-12 people. 3 VP names for support, JMP admin came to dinner, JMP Champions.
- Western Digital: Product Design and Margin Study Group - JMP Pro trial (16 codes, 13 used) and 3 onsite visits, 2 webex (2.1.2018- present); interest from other groups; sites
- Whirlpool: Strip Plot demo by Don M. for Black Belts (Global – Mexico, Brazil, US, etc.)
- Whirlpool: New group of JMP Pro interest (product design – dryers); JMP Pro users meeting onsite May 2nd and ongoing webexes - that ended. Text Explorer – topic analysis. Model and simulation Consumer score.
- L. Gore: meeting at Cary with Development, Customer Care, Sales: Willis Jensen and Chris Chen. Gave us their roadmap for analytics. Feedback session to development, JMP Share Demo, JMP Pro value discussion.
Upcoming meetings
- June 13 – L. Gore Cary SAS meeting: Jeff, Tim (feedback meeting Willis and Chris Chen – JMP feedback for Developers and developing business case for JMP Pro – quantify value of Pro assistance) Premier Team, Customer Care, Development (John Sall): 3 meetings (development feedback, lunch, and business value of Pro) Jeff is coordinating. Hard stop because travel to MN.
- June 14 – Seagate JMP Day (MN) – presenters: Laura, Bill, Stan
- July 3 WL Gore – webex - JMP 14 rollout help, strategy for training
- July 12 Merck – webex Staff Meeting Center of Mathematical Sciences
- September 12 – P&G (Cincinnati) – JMP Day – presenters: John Sall, Laura, Bill, Jeff
- Oct – Discovery - ? think strategy and schedule – meetings for stats and business (high level)
Defects and Technical Support
- P&G – incoming bugs and improvements from this week’s webexes (FDE improvements)
- Lilly – [SAS 7612467057] – contact about JMP features using database – Laura did webex database, Query Builder, etc. to Process Monitoring Analyst, Manufacturing & Quality DIA (Data, Integration, Analytics) Group Leaders
- Whirlpool - S1443535: NF:JSL Support for Google Sheets – moving off Excel in the near future to Google Suite – how to integrate Google Sheets with JMP? Now in JMP 15 – GUI for import
Community Activity
- JMP Share report publishing from Salesforce (goal – midyear demo): Laura and Dan. Also Jeff’s intern doing reports on window info and links (i.e. site numbers, number of users in Salesforce, GIDB, etc.).
Education
- Global Foundries June onsite JSL training – Monica Beals (13 people, entire spectrum of experience with JSL), July onsite training? Unsure if it’s happening
- Bank of America - Learning Needs Assessment Survey being revised by SAS Ed (mid-July rollout)
JMP 14 Rollout Schedule – Onto 14
- P&G - JMP Pro 14.0 rolled out – so far so good (hesitant about x.0 release but pleased)
- Seagate – sudden availability (no enforcement to upgrade currently) – Informal rollout during JMP day. Typically roll out x.1 version.
- WL Gore - 0 in stats group (Willis) – not yet enterprise wide
JMP 14 Rollout Schedule – not on 14 – in chronological order
- Lilly - JMP 14.1 roll out early fall (Sam Gardner helping internally with this)
- Bank of America- 18.18 Currently JMP 13.1. Not going to roll out x.0. x.1 is about 2 months to package and roll out. About 6 month schedule to do x.2
- Whirlpool - JMP 14.1 or 14.2 rollout – end of 2018.
- Intel – JMP Pro 14 roll out end of 2018 or early 2019 (current version JMP 12)
- Dow – JMP 14 March 2019 (current version JMP 12)
Significant News
- Intel – CEO resigned
- Monsanto – name dropped in Bayer Acquisition (finalized)
- NXP – Chinese government controlling Qualcomm acquisition; offer extended
- Seagate - Complete acquisition of Toshiba Memory Unity (solid state)
- P&G – acquisition of Merck’s consumer-health business (KGaA makes dietary supplements and nasal decongestant)
- Monsanto – Bayer disposed of seed-unit as required for acquisition – forward it goes (sold to BASF SE)
- Dow – spin off into 3 independent companies by mid-2019 (Corteva Agriscience, Dow and DuPont)
- Lilly – possible selling of Elanco, animal Health Unit, decision in mid-2018 – large JMP presence
- NXP –to be acquired by Qualcomm (June 2018)
