3 of 30: Tricks for reducing CPU time

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 10, 2013

Do you remember when CPU time was a high-priced commodity? “Today, if you are any good at what you do, the constrained resource is you,” says Timothy Berryhill from Wells Fargo. Berryhill has years of experience with SAS on “many platforms and operating systems.” He says there are several things [...]

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Taking business intelligence mobile

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 8, 2013

In today’s fast-paced, jam-packed work day, many people answer email and read reports after business hours. And more and more, they’re doing those things on a smartphone or tablet. How are your users accessing and using your reports? Statistics South Africa has found that their end-users would prefer a mobile [...]

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Text mining: Understand what your customers are saying

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 1, 2013

According to research, less than half of an organization’s data is structured data; nearly 80 percent is unstructured data that may come from social media, customer letters, web pages, invoices and freeform survey answers. Getting the information you need from that data can be a quick and automated experience or [...]

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Closing the distance using SAS® Enterprise BI

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|April 29, 2013

Managers, boards of directors, executives – everyone needs up-to-date information for decision making. And today that often means they need it in real-time. James Beaver and Tobin Scroggins from Farm Bureau Bank give their users the option of emailed reports for this real-time or near real-time information, or the users [...]

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When bad things happen to good speakers

Tricia Aanderud
Tricia Aanderud|April 8, 2013

A sugar packet at a local Chinese restaurant had this wisdom to share, “Experience is what you get, when you don’t get what you want.”  With that profound thought in mind, I’m sharing some of my worse speaking experiences so you can make your SAS Global Forum presentation better. tags: [...]

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More tips for great SAS Global Forum presentations

Ron Fehd
Ron Fehd|March 26, 2013

I thoroughly agree with Tricia Aanderud on what it takes to Create Engaging SAS Global Forum Presentations! Here are a few more tips based on my own experience: First, let’s look at what it takes to publish, and present. Good title. Good abstract, written about five months in advance. Oh, the [...]

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Create Engaging SAS Global Forum Presentations

Tricia Aanderud
Tricia Aanderud|March 15, 2013

Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen, has excellent ideas on organizing your information so it is effective and interesting. One tip is “Start with the End in Mind” – what is the purpose of your presentation? What do you want the audience to walk away knowing?

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Writing Your Global Forum Paper

Steve Overton
Steve Overton|February 21, 2013

So your paper abstract has been accepted to present at SAS Global Forum?  Better get to writing it!  Do not put it off or delay. Remember you have a paper AND a presentation to put together.  Depending on how you plan to write the paper, you may have some SAS [...]

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Paper accepted? 3 tips for preparing

Tricia Aanderud
Tricia Aanderud|January 21, 2013

Yea! My paper was accepted at the SAS Global Forum 2013. There’s nothing better than getting an email from your section chair saying your paper has been accepted. Steve Overton was correct in his The Wait is Killing Me post. Angela Hall and I were invited to conduct a Hands [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Version control

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|January 11, 2013

Anything that you do manually leaves the door open for error; this is especially true for your file system.  Aside from that, automated processes are usually faster. Magnus Mengelbier has applied this philosophy to providing version control capabilities to SAS data sets, programs and outputs. tags: Friday’s Innovation Inspiration, papers [...]