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 those [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been communicating recently with author and thought leader Jason Jennings. He’s writing a new book and asked for my input on the topics of meeting customer needs, and considering customer care when developing new products. I told him that for our business, including customers in the product development process [...]
After talking about SAS products and development roadmaps with industry experts at the SAS Analysts Conference in Steamboat Springs earlier this month and now as we’re preparing for SAS Global Forum next week, I have to say how proud I am of the SAS Research and Development and Product Management [...]
