8 high-performance metaphors you should know

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|February 21, 2012

When I first started hearing SAS CEO Jim Goodnight talk about high-performance analytics (HPA), I was fascinated. But I have to admit that my mind was spinning a bit from the terminology: blades, cores, captains, generals and so on. But then the metaphorical nature of these terms clicked for me, [...]

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Human ingenuity is still the magic

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|January 23, 2012

The tools for analytics are getting more sophisticated as data becomes more voluminous, says Jim Sterne, President of Target Marketing, in the video below. The real magic still comes from human ingenuity, explains Sterne, but it helps to give analysts the tools they need to make that magic happen. Hear [...]

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How will analytics rock your world in 2012?

Malene Haxholdt
Malene Haxholdt|January 13, 2012

It’s true. “Big data” can be a problem and an opportunity. Many organizations have struggled to manage, much less profit from, the deluge. In 2012, look for big data to spur demand for big data analytics. New developments in high-performance computing as well as increased demand for visualization and text [...]

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Things that go fast: High-performance analytics

Chad Austin
Chad Austin|November 17, 2011

Oliver Schabenberger likes things that go fast. Perched on a shelf in his office at SAS world headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, are five scale models of Formula One race cars, which symbolize Schabenberger’s fascination with speed and technology. The models are replicas of the life-size, aerodynamic machines that can travel [...]

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What technologies are CEOs looking at today?

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|October 26, 2011

When you can get three succesful corporate leaders on stage to talk at a technology conference, what do you ask them about? Corporate culture, the economy and business leadership, sure – but most importantly, you talk about technology. Specifically, what technologies should businesses be taking advantage of today? Mobile, social [...]

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The promise of high-performance analytics

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|August 26, 2011

The promise of high-performance analytics, as I understand it, is this: Regardless of how you store your data or how much of it there is, complex analytical procedures can still access that data, conduct a series of calculations on that data and provide answers quickly, accurately and using the full [...]

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What type of big is your data?

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|May 23, 2011

The basic big data problem is simple to understand: we create too much data to store and analyze it all. The problem gets bigger, however, when you consider the related factors: our problems themselves are getting bigger, the analytics needed to solve them are more complex and the data is [...]

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Risk management: 25 years new with high performance computing

David Rogers|July 1, 2010

While many of my colleagues were in Berlin, attending and presenting at the Premiere Business Leadership Conference, I had the privilege of speaking at Intel’s FasterRisk . It struck me as humbling, really: In Berlin, Dr. Jim Goodnight, SAS co-founder and CEO, was wowing an audience of several hundred senior [...]

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