Tapan Patel is Senior Manager (Product Marketing) at SAS. With 20 years of experience in the enterprise software market, Patel leads and manages product marketing efforts for Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, Decisioning and Cloud Providers.
In June 2020, we announced our strategic partnership with Microsoft to help our joint customers address their most critical analytical challenges with SAS® Viya® on Azure. In honor of two years together, we’re highlighting some of our biggest milestones, favorite stories and impressive results. Better Together In June 2020, we announced our
Industry-changing dynamics like mobility, smart products, social media and embedded computing put a premium on big data and the insights you can gain from organizational data. As a result, the opportunity to be disruptive with analytics has never been greater. Yet, when it comes to making analytics work, not all organizations
With all of the great information coming out of this week’s Gartner Business Intelligence Summit and the recent wave of vendors arriving on the big data scene, we decided to take a hard look at how we stack up. First, here’s our take on big data: Data – big or
Last month I attended the Predictive Analytics World conference in Washington DC. It attracted more attendees from last year with broad representation from multiple industries. The conference was kicked off by Eric Siegel’s keynote focusing on Five ways predictive analytics cuts enterprise risk. The gist of his presentation was to
Self-reliant business users would like to use analytics more often to address changing market conditions and make quick decisions. Take, for example, a marketer or customer support specialist who might want to generate analytics and apply results to a variety of business issues, including: Determine which inbound customer interactions are
It is that time of the year again! Rexer Analytics, a data mining consulting firm, is conducting their fourth annual data mining survey. The survey collects preferences, views and interests of data mining professionals (e.g. data miners, statisticians, modelers, analysts, etc.). SAS is not the sponsor of the survey. The
Attending the Predictive Analytics World (PAW) Conference is truly a rewarding experience. Compliments go to Eric Siegel and the conference organizers for assembling such an interesting cast of case studies and speakers. Day 2 kicked off with a key note from Kim Larsen from Charles Schwab & Co. on net
I am attending the 2010 Predictive Analytics World event in San Francisco. Parallel to an overwhelming interest and awareness in analytics in general, the conference has been sold out. Day 0 (Feb. 14th) kicked off with a pre-conference workshop featuring SAS Enterprise Miner with Dean Abbott. 24 attendees showed up
Almost every other article or blog or survey I read nowadays discusses virtualization and cloud computing topics. Why? Partly because IT operations and infrastructure professionals are facing difficulty monitoring and managing computing resources in a distributed environment. They have to ensure that capacity is always available to be assigned as
CIOs and IT managers are always challenged to do more with less. I have heard this again and again in my engagements with IT professionals at industry events and customer meetings. I am not saying that IT professionals are complaining. Instead, I get the feeling that it is a constraint
