Which data sources will organizations use to make AI as effective as possible?
Phil Simon weighs in on using data to make the most of AI.
Tag: data access
Why organizations' AI efforts will require retiring data sources
There's a chasm in today's business world between "can" and "should." Let's hope that gap closes soon.
The SAS platform – It all starts with data management
To get full value from analytics programs, Todd Wright says be sure you can first access, integrate, cleanse and govern your data.
Data on demand or data as a service?
David Loshin describes how data as a service supports fast deployment, easy accessibility and data reuse.
Self-service data preparation gives fast access to the data you need
Get on with your day faster by taking a self-service approach to data preparation.
How do I know what data is available?
Phil Simon shares his thoughts on this simple yet often-overlooked question.
Who was that masked data?
Data access and data privacy are often fundamentally at odds with each other. Organizations want unfettered access to the data describing customers. Meanwhile, customers want their data – especially their personally identifiable information – to remain as private as possible. Organizations need to protect data privacy by only granting data access to authorized
Using Hadoop: Impacts of data organization on access latency
Hadoop is increasingly being adopted as the go-to platform for large-scale data analytics. However, it is still not necessarily clear that Hadoop is always the optimal choice for traditional data warehousing for reporting and analysis, especially in its “out of the box” configuration. That is because Hadoop itself is not
Performance tips for viewing data in SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS users love to look at data. And the data grid in SAS Enterprise Guide is a convenient way to view the contents of a data set. While small data sets can be rendered lickity-split for quick viewing, sometimes people get justifiably anxious when opening very large data. Perhaps they've
SAS Visual Analytics: managing user permissions
I’ve recently had the opportunity to learn a little more about administering SAS Visual Analytics. The sessions introduced me to two new GUI interfaces that simplify the work for SAS administrators. In my last post, I shared how to load data into memory using the SAS Visual Data Builder. After
How to find the ENGINE name for a SAS library
One of the great things about SAS libraries is that you can write your programs to read and write data without having to worry about where the data lives. SAS data set on a file system? Oracle table in a database server? Hadoop data in Hive? For many SAS applications,
Using SAS Enterprise Guide to read Microsoft Office 2007 files
Even if you don't use Microsoft Office 2007, you might have noticed more ".xlsx" files floating around lately. Perhaps you've been sent one or two that you can't open. XLSX is one of the new Microsoft Excel 2007 file formats. (Others include XLSB and XLSM.) Like many software applications, SAS