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SAS Business Data Network is SAS’ solution for managing glossaries of common business terms. This is part of the SAS Data Governance offering as well as bundled with Advanced versions of all SAS Data Management bundles. One thing that is important regarding Data Governance in general, and this solution in

Open Source und SAS – das sind auf den ersten Blick zwei ganz verschiedene Welten. Dabei verfolgt SAS eine ganze Reihe von Initiativen rund um Open Source – insbesondere im Umfeld des Big-Data-Frameworks Hadoop. Ich habe Andreas Gödde zum Nebeneinander und Miteinander der Technologien befragt. Andreas Gödde berät viele Kunden

Last week I read an interesting paper by Bob Rodriguez: "Statistical Model Building for Large, Complex Data: Five New Directions in SAS/STAT Software." In it, Rodriguez summarizes five modern techniques for building predictive models and highlights recent SAS/STAT procedures that implement those techniques. The paper discusses the following high-performance (HP)

This weekend I was reviewing my portfolio of stocks as usual. Yes, I do have a small stock portfolio with a few stocks, and normally I use free stock charting software to review the stock plots. These sites allow you to view the daily stock prices along with many technical

Slack is a tremendously popular app for team collaboration. At its core, it's an open messaging app that allows team members to communicate with each other in real time. It works well with "startup"-style teamwork, which requires constant communication among people who aren't always located together. I've heard a lot

The Internet of Things (or IoT, as some like to call it) holds a number of benefits for many organizations: revenue growth, smarter decision making and efficiency. Experts are predicting anywhere from 20 to 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020. That’s almost here! Are you

En mi colaboración anterior, hablamos del CMO como principal consumidor de tecnología dentro de la organización y como un segundo punto clave para las decisiones estratégicas del área de marketing, centralizar las acciones en el cliente. Esto es, en el enfoque actual de las compañías que tienen como parte de

El valor y el rol de los CIO en las organizaciones ha cambiado. Para nadie es un secreto que las nuevas tecnologías, los dispositivos móviles, los medios sociales y, sobre todo, la analítica ha revolucionado la labor de los encargados de implementar, administrar y potenciar las soluciones TI en las

In DataFlux Data Management Studio, the predominate component of the SAS Data Quality bundle, the data quality nodes in a data job use definitions from something called the SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB). The QKB supports over 25 languages and provides a set of pre-built rules, definitions and reference data

With the Pokémon Go craze sweeping the world, techies and programmers are looking to apply their skills to gain an advantage over the average user. In this blog post, I show how to use some of SAS' geospatial analytics capabilities to capture a Pikachu. Let's say you know of a building that has

Ich bin ein echter Online-Fan. Amazon-Prime-Kunde vom ersten Tage. Carsharing-Auto holen, nur mit dem Handy. Wozu brauche ich Fernsehen, wenns auch Netflix gibt? Und Einkaufen im Supermarkt macht auch weniger Spaß, als einfach online zu bestellen und liefern zu lassen!

.@philsimon with some recommendations on modernization.

In June, my husband and I completed this silly race called Storm the Beach – totally out of my norm, it was only 5 miles :) and included things like climbing, crawling, wading through the ocean, balancing, rope swinging, and running through soft sand. It was nuts, but so fun, and
I'm addicted to you. You're a hard habit to break. Such a hard habit to break. — Chicago, "Hard Habit To Break" Habits are hard to break. For more than 20 years I've been putting semicolons at the end of programming statements in SAS, C/C++, and Java/Javascript. But lately I've been

La detección de riesgos (fraude, abuso y desperdicio de recursos) en las compañías, representa una oportunidad para prevenir situaciones que pongan en entredicho su reputación, así como pérdidas económicas derivadas de ello o por robo de información clave. Para algunas industrias y sectores como el financiero, banca, seguros, entre otras,