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Mike Ames, leads the product management and innovations efforts for SAS’ data integration product lines. He specializes in information architecture and applying advanced analytics to a wide variety of business and technical problems. His areas of expertise include data warehousing, real-time systems, and machine learning.
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Big Data why now?
Ask any data warehouse architect what is driving the “big data” craze and he’ll tell you it has to do with the cost of storage ... Read More
SAS, Hadoop and big data
The term “big data” is all the rage right now, however the term “big” is relative. At SAS we have been called on to do “big ... Read More
EL-T Technique 1: Batch Loads with Teradata Example