Everything is "big data" these days – but where is the data management?

Daniel Teachey
Daniel Teachey|March 28, 2013

When I first began working in the data management industry in 2003, I interviewed a VP of IT for a Fortune 500 manufacturer about their data quality and data integration initiatives. The executive was excited to talk about their rather novel approach to a massive ERP system integration. She mentioned that instead [...]

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Data integration: The changing nature of tools and experiences

Charlotte Crain|December 18, 2012

When I first thought about writing a blog post about data management, picking a topic was an obvious, if daunting, first step. The challenges facing both IT and business are increasing in the era of bigger, more complex and more immediate data. My experience working with organizations across a variety [...]

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Planning the MDM journey: SAS DataFlux delivers phased MDM projects

Matthew Magne
Matthew Magne|December 17, 2012

2013 is rapidly approaching and everyone is focused on change, whether it’s a shift in your current role, a New Year’s resolution or a new business plan. Similarly, organizations are looking at their master data management (MDM) strategy with an eye on the accompanying change management. There is a shift towards a [...]

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Data Integration is old news!!

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|December 13, 2011

This may be controversial coming from someone that has worked with data his entire career, someone that has been involved with software vendors focused on data integration and access for the last 6 years, and someone that is responsible for product marketing for SAS data management capability, but I’ll say [...]

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SAS, Hadoop and big data

Mike Ames
Mike Ames|August 29, 2011

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 data” projects and more importantly “big analytics” projects for many years now. In fact, we are the pioneers of analytics on “big data.” There is [...]

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Would you rather analyze or prepare?

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|March 2, 2011

Are you one of those people that love doing analysis? If so, there is nothing quite like analyzing customer patterns, revenue trends, inventory levels, cost optimization, etc. — especially when you can use that analysis to make changes that will optimize your business. But before you can start the analysis, [...]

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Don’t let me be misunderstood – ensuring consistency and accurate reporting with an insurance data model

Stuart Rose
Stuart Rose|February 16, 2011

The insurance industry is full of clichés regarding data: “data rich, information poor,” “data is the lifeline for insurers” and the old favorite “garbage in, garbage out.” Insurance is an industry that relies on solutions to help businesses gain insight into risk, cause of loss and resulting claims. They need [...]

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Announcing SAS Data Management & Integration Technical Forum and Blog

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|February 11, 2011

Many of us in the SAS world are responsible for the data that feeds the various business intelligence, analytics and business solutions provided by SAS. We’ve been involved in data integration, data migration, data quality, ETL / ELT, data access projects that support SAS solutions or are used for other [...]

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