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Keith Collins
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Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Keith is responsible for leading the Research and Development, Information Services and Technical Support Divisions at SAS. He fosters close working relationships with marketing and sales to ensure that SAS technologies are aligned with customer needs and market demand. He has been instrumental in leading SAS' evolution as a provider of industry-specific solutions that deliver the benefits of powerful analytic technologies into the hands of users. A graduate of North Carolina State University in computer science, Keith is a devoted supporter of the university. He is the founding member of the strategic advisory board of the department of computer science.

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Putting a price on data storage

One obvious result of the data explosion is that organizations now have more data to manage. There’s simply too much data pouring in to process, clean and store it all. Since it’s impossible to warehouse every single piece of data, it’s important to start thinking about the value of your

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Let’s apply quality control to our information flow

Tell me if any of these scenarios sound familiar: You send quarterly reports to your entire team with charts, graphs and analytics that compare previous quarters - and nobody ever responds, so you’re not even sure if they’re looking at them. You have an executive dashboard that displays monthly numbers