A seasoned architect with hybrid business and technical skills, Paul encourages clients to adopt new SAS technologies embracing Hadoop, in-memory processing, high-end RDBMS and Cloud. His goal is to persuade client enterprise architects, technologists and data scientists to extend their use of SAS as an enterprise technology, leveraging partners including Teradata, Cloudera, AWS, Google & Microsoft. He has conducted architecture & best practice reviews and consulting engagements in more than 40 countries and has led multi-disciplinary teams to success in large and complex environments.
This is the third post in a series about the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London. Welcome to the third and final collection of thoughts inspired by my time covering the SAS booth at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London. In my previous blog, I talked about
As promised in this latest blog about the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London, here’s an update from the second day at the SAS booth. To make a long story short, each day the SAS booth team posed a question to attendees visiting the booth. They could submit three
If my experience is anything to go by, there’s a sizeable number of customers that still have SAS workloads running on IBM mainframes. Now I have tremendous respect for S/390 (I can still navigate TSO/ISPF et al. and started my IT career programming in PL/AS on MVS and VM), but
By this point you may be wondering whether the so-called hill that represents the move to operationalization may actually be a mountain.
Recently I’ve been listening to the BBC Radio Series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, which was first broadcast in 2016. One of the episodes considers the impact of a simple box (the shipping container) and concludes its invention was a major contributor to the post-war boom in global
There aren’t many things that keep me awake at night but let me share a recent example with you. I’ve been grappling with how to help a local SAS team respond to a customer’s request for a “generic enterprise analytics architecture.” As background, this customer organization had recently embarked on
Unless you live in England, you may not have seen the recent announcement that Buckingham Palace is to undergo a 10-year refurbishment costing the British taxpayer £369M. Even with the post-Brexit devaluation of Sterling, that’s still a sizable spend representing nearly US$500 million. The Queen will remain in residence during
The IT industry is littered with examples of short-lived corporate partnerships and alliances that often appear impressive but regularly end or are withdrawn after the initial enthusiasm wanes. The old adage that “actions speaker louder than words” is especially pertinent and I regularly encourage clients to look for tangible examples
