Ferraris don’t run on kerosene: The case for good data

Madhu Nair
Madhu Nair|April 19, 2013

Imagine a shiny, new red Ferrari in your driveway. You have splurged on it and cannot wait to rev the engine and pull ahead of the annoyingly slow cars on the highway. This is the machine that will take you to your destination with style and speed. Would you run [...]

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Narrowing the lead on big data early adopters

Madhu Nair
Madhu Nair|April 9, 2013

A new SAS survey uncovered a big data disconnect, with only 12 percent of organizations on board. Why weren’t more of the organizations surveyed taking steps towards a big data pay off? Without a doubt those that are implementing big data strategies will see a competitive advantage. And the longer they [...]

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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 management on display at SAS Global Forum

Daniel Teachey
Daniel Teachey|March 19, 2013

Years ago, I was at a user conference, listening to an attendee talk for 15 minutes during a break about a data quality job he had created. He had good reason to celebrate. The job had reduced the amount of work required to clean up product data within a data [...]

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Data stewardship and the benefits of employee retention

Daniel Teachey
Daniel Teachey|January 16, 2013

Like most Americans (who hold an average of 11 jobs over the duration of their careers), I’ve worked for a variety of companies. Some were employee-friendly, while others, to put it kindly, thought of employees as a means to an end.  I was thinking about all those jobs today as we found [...]

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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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Baking it in: Change management as part of data governance

Analise Polsky
Analise Polsky|November 28, 2012

If people are the heartbeat of an organization, data is the blood that moves with each pulse. When everything is flowing smoothly the organization thrives. Unfortunately, it is not hard to imagine instances where something malfunctions. Little by little vital components will slow, break, or shut down. Is there a [...]

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Three pillars of better business outcomes: information management, analytics, and campaign optimization

Matthew Magne
Matthew Magne|November 18, 2011

Lately, in consulting with customers about SAS solutions, I’m increasingly seeing discussions revolve around 3 inter-related but distinct segments: Information Management, Analytics, and Campaign Optimization. In the past, these discussions might have happened with 3 different audiences in 3 different meetings, but we are seeing a massive convergence across these [...]

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Big data reality check

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|July 22, 2011

I’m always a fan of moving beyond the buzz, so the new research from Nucleus Research, “Big Data: Beyond the Buzzwords,” caught my eye. Besides providing a quick, simple definition (“big data is all about creating, analyzing, and managing large data sets”), The 3-page report does a nice job distilling [...]

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Prove It!

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|June 27, 2011

I was fortunate to participate in the SAS Power Series event that was held in Minneapolis recently. This event brought together seasoned analytic users from a variety of companies to share their experiences, successes and challenges as they strive to leverage analytics to help drive their business. Although the business [...]

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