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The Pinnacle Solutions Story

  • Pinnacle Solutions named SAS North American Partner of the Year.
  • Pinnacle Solutions wins (3) SAS Hackathon 2022 Awards, including Health and Life Sciences, Natural Language Processing, and the Americas Region categories.
  • Pinnacle Solutions wins (2) SAS Hackathon 2021 Awards, including Healthcare and Data Visualization categories.
  • Dave Foster nominated Vice-President of the Midwest SAS Users Group.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Enters the Canadian Analytics Market.
    Long-time US SAS Reseller Pinnacle Solutions becomes first new SAS Canada Partner of 2019.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Achieves Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner Tier for Private and Public Sector.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Achieves Amazon Web Services Public Sector Partner Status.
    Amazon Web Services Public Sector Partner logo
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. is Named the 2018 US Sub-Regional SAS Partner of the Year.
    2018 US Subregional SAS Partner of the Year Award Badge
  • DJ Penix, President and Founder of Pinnacle Solutions, invited to the inaugural SAS Partner Advisory Board.
    SAS Institute announced that Pinnacle Solutions President and Founder, D.J. Penix, has been invited to the inaugural SAS Partner Advisory Board. You can view the blog announcement from SAS as well as see other members of the board here: Meet the SAS Partner Advisory Board.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Becomes a Datadog Services Partner and Red Hat Technology Partner
    Datadog Logo, links to Datadog partner description on Our Partners page
    Red Hat Technology Partner logo, links to Red Hat Technology Partner description on Our Partners page
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Obtains the SAS Analytics Competency Badge
    SAS® Analytics Competency Badge
    To obtain this specialized SAS competency badge, Pinnacle Solutions has proven its ability to create highly accurate descriptive and predictive models to help our clients discover unknown patterns, identify new opportunities, minimize risk, reduce costs and improve outcomes. The SAS products highlighted in this competency include SAS® Enterprise Miner™, SAS Forecast Server, and SAS Visual Statistics. To obtain this badge, Pinnacle Solutions consultants had to meet rigorous Sales, Pre-sales, and Implementation training requirements which included obtaining the SAS Business Analytics certification and the SAS Enterprise Miner certification.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Obtains the SAS Customer Intelligence Specialization Badge
    SAS® Customer Intelligence Specialization Badge
    Pinnacle Solutions has differentiated itself as a leader in implementing SAS Customer Intelligence solutions by obtaining the SAS Customer Intelligence specialization badge. To obtain this badge, Pinnacle Solutions consultants had to meet rigorous Sales, Pre-sales and Implementation training requirements.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Expands Solution Development Center Again
    Street view picture of Pinnacle's East Washington Street location
    Picture of reception area at Pinnacle's East Washington Street location
    Picture of collaborative work spaces and offices at Pinnacle's East Washington Street location
    PSI Moves to a larger office building at 152 E Washington St, Indianapolis, IN 46204.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Becomes an Amazon Web Services Consulting Partner
    Amazon Web Services Consulting Partner logo, links to Amazon Web Services Partner description on Our Partners page
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Expands Solution Development Center
    Street view picture of Pinnacle's East New York Street location
    Picture of reception area at Pinnacle's East New York Street location
    Inside view picture of Pinnacle's East New York Street location
    PSI Moves to 426 E New York St, Indianapolis, IN 46202
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Introduces the Pinnacle Backpack™
    Pinnacle Backpack, links to Solutions Overview page
    Focused on providing innovative solutions that integrate with SAS®, Pinnacle Solutions introduced their Pinnacle Backpack in 2010. Comprised of tools such as Pinnacle Compass™, Pinnacle Binoculars™, Pinnacle Shelter™, and Pinnacle First Aid Kit™, the Pinnacle Backpack is a set of must-have tools that helps customers with their data needs.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Ranked #1 in Total SAS® Sales Volume in the United States for SAS® Partners and has remained at #1 every year since 2009.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Becomes Futrix Reseller
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Ranked #1 in Total SAS® Sales Volume in the Midwest for SAS® Partners.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Becomes a SAS® Reseller
    SAS® Reseller Partner
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Expands Solutions Development Center
    In 2004, the Solutions Development Center expanded to encompass project management services as well as to create graphical user interfaces for web and stand-alone products.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Moves to New Office
    Street view picture of Pinnacle's East Market Street location
    Inside view picture of Pinnacle's East Market Street location
    Picture of conference room at Pinnacle's East Market Street location
    .PSI moves to 120 E Market St, Indianapolis, IN 46204
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Opens Solution Development Center
    As the company completed projects, clients requested additional services. Pinnacle Solutions’ offerings gradually expanded to include all phases of the systems development life cycle (SDLC). To provide fully documented and validated software, the company created service teams in technical writing and validation & testing. Veteran statisticians were added to the Pinnacle Solutions team to help clients interpret data and to ensure that SAS® applications incorporated sound analysis techniques. In 2001, Pinnacle Solutions launched the Solutions Development Center at 1 N Meridian St, Indianapolis, IN 46204. The Solutions Development Center is a complete outsourced SAS® application development resource for the Midwestern marketplace.
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Formally Becomes a SAS® Alliance and Consulting Partner
    SAS® Gold Partner
  • Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Founded.
    Formed in 1996 by founder and President DJ Penix, Pinnacle Solutions adopted the SAS® system, one of the most prominent analytic and reporting tools since the late 1970s, as the primary programming language for development of custom analytic applications. Pinnacle Solutions started in the life sciences market. The earliest projects delivered by the company’s consultants involved development of SAS®-based applications for clinical trials data analysis and reporting at Eli Lilly and Company. Pinnacle Solutions also entered the manufacturing sector, creating a custom SAS® Internet-based Statistical Process Control application for manufacturing process improvement at medical device company Roche Diagnostics.

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