I’m sensing a theme as I look over my posts on this blog from the last year. The top five posts give you a good taste of what we were thinking about as an industry this year: Is big data over hyped? What kind of big data problem do you [...]
We have yet to recover from the economic crisis. But the turmoil seen in the struggling global market could yet be dwarfed by the utter devastation a cyber-crisis could unleash. As a company, SAS is frequently asked to support compliance efforts, such as FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), but [...]
In your organization, is “big data” an obstacle or an asset? Or is it still just a buzzword you’re trying to understand? A small group of us from SAS have spent the last week traveling to Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo talking with business leaders about the benefits [...]
When faced with every possible challenge – from socio-economic to environmental – man has taken seemingly small steps into cyberspace, resulting in a giant leap for mankind: the creation of the new asset class, “big data.” With 90 percent of the world’s data created in the last two years, we [...]
A few years ago our new media team made this quick video to give you sense of just how big a billion is: That’s big. But now that you can visualize a billion dollars, can you imagine what a billion rows of data looks like? Or find value in [...]
Big data. Hyperconnectivity. Speed to intelligence. These central themes have served as common threads in previous issues of Intelligence Quarterly, a journal that examines the many ways analytics transform the world. Taken separately, these elements could be seen as just added complexities, but the convergence of the three is where [...]
Let’s talk about the time savings involved with high-performance analytics. I’ve blogged before about the time reductions we’ve seen when analyzing big data with our high-performance analytics solutions. We’re quoting time savings of up to 92 hours, but what does that mean? Or, as I like to ask, “So what?” [...]
The most exciting thing in the industry right now is not “big data.” It’s “big analytics” or — as we like to call it — high-performance analytics. Speaking from the perspective of somebody who’s been in this industry for many years, big data is not a new issue. We’ve been through this. [...]
We’ve definitely hit the point in the “big data” hype cycle where people are looking critically at the term and asking what all the fuss is about. Some pundits have even speculated about a big data bubble that’s sure to burst after everyone realizes the term has been over-used, and [...]
A few years ago, we had this big debate between the terms business intelligence and business analytics – and which one was more accurate or reflective of the products in our industry. I don’t hear those arguments anymore. Some still say business intelligence and business analytics are one and the [...]
