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John Sall
JMP produces interactive software for desktop statistical discovery. Pronounced “jump,” its name suggests a leap in interactivity, a move in a new direction. John Sall, SAS co-founder and Executive Vice President, created this dynamic software and remains its chief architect and leader of the JMP division. Introduced in 1989 with scientists and engineers in mind, JMP has grown into a family of statistical discovery products used worldwide in almost every industry. From its beginnings, JMP software has empowered its users by enabling interactive analytics on the desktop.
JMP was developed to capture the new value in the graphical user interface (GUI) in the personal computer in the 1980s. This innovation arrived first on the Apple Macintosh in 1984 and a few years later on Windows. The GUI changed everything. Instead of using keyboards, people could do much of their work with a pointing device, the mouse. Computing became not just easy, but actually fun. Spreadsheet results didn’t have to be displayed only as numbers – they could be graphs. It became possible to identify patterns and outliers in data. JMP allowed users to do this, and one of its original interface guidelines was to provide a graph for every statistic.
