Infographic: How can you become a big data hero?

Dr. Insight
Dr. Insight|May 14, 2012

tags: analytics, big data, high-performance analytics, league of analytics superheroes

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Big data answers for your industry and your role

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|May 9, 2012

Are you still struggling to understand what “big data” means to you or your industry? Or maybe you get it, but you want your boss to understand the opportunities, and you’re not sure how to explain it clearly. Look no further. I’ve categorized some of our most popular recent big [...]

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A picture...or a thousand words?

Jennifer Marchi
Jennifer Marchi|April 17, 2012

I don’t know about you … but I get hundreds of e-mails a day!  Not only e-mail – but text messages, tweets, e-mail advertising, notices from blogs, rss feeds…coming to me at a numbingly fast pace day and night. It’s information overload. It’s also overwhelming.  And, on a personal level – [...]

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Turning big data (volume, variety, and velocity) into value

Gary Spakes
Gary Spakes|April 12, 2012

Today, more companies are offering more products in more markets in more currencies to more customer segments than ever before. The result? An exponential explosion in data covering virtually every aspect of the organization: sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, legal, HR, and more. Unquestionably, the era of “big data” has arrived. [...]

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Will big data and high-performance analytics flatten the world?

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|April 11, 2012

Retail is one of the most time-sensitive industries. Find out how mega-chain Family Dollar Stores Inc., which operates more than 7,100 stores in 45 states, relies on high-performance analytics to shrink data processing windows from days to less than an hour and speed decision making. Scott Zucker, Vice President of [...]

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Staying ahead of the big data curve

Tapan Patel
Tapan Patel|April 5, 2012

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 [...]

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12 questions to ask your high-performance vendor

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|April 4, 2012

Seems like the industry is getting hit with a new analytics solution for “big data” every couple of weeks. With every database vendor and analytics provider jumping into this space, we wanted to offer a checklist of questions for you to ask – so you can start differentiating between the [...]

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So many WOWs…in so little time

Jennifer Marchi
Jennifer Marchi|March 23, 2012

I remember the first time I saw a Cirque du Soleil® performance—the artistry, the split-second timing, that repeating sense of WOW.  I was an instant fan. Funny… but I got that same sense of awe the first time I saw a demo of SAS® Visual Analytics.  I’d read the project [...]

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Pivot to win: Banks can score with big data

David Wallace
David Wallace|March 21, 2012

The first quarter of the fiscal year is the time that banking industry analysts provide clients with their vision on the key challenges and solutions in banking for 2012. TowerGroup’s Nicole Sturgill recently wrote that “understanding consumer use of the financial institution’s delivery channels is a critical element” for institutions [...]

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Could high-performance analytics have prevented the housing crisis?

Shannon Heath
Shannon Heath|March 15, 2012

There’s been a lot of conversation recently around SAS High-Performance Analytics.  And, rightly so – it’s incredibly cool and applicable to every industry imaginable, including financial services. What if your risk calculations had seen the ’08 credit collapse in time?  CBS SmartPlanet addresses this (and highlights SAS High-Performance Analytics, with [...]

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