Data Integration is old news!!

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

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?

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

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

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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