As vice president of product strategy, Shadi Shahin is responsible for leading Product Management, Price and Offering Management, as well as the Enterprise Excellence Center teams. His background as an IT professional began at IBM more than 25 years ago eventually leading Wolters Kluwer, and most recently, RedHat. Along the way, Shahin’s teams pushed the boundaries within data, analytics, and next-generation technologies. This included creative integrations of SAS into an open architecture ecosystems. His guiding principle is to infuse both a customer and practitioner perspective into a pragmatic and collaborative SAS roadmap.
Maybe you’re a SAS®9 programmer in the insurance industry who stores her analytics projects in a local desktop folder, or in a Git library. Or maybe you’re a data scientist who specializes in aviation forecasting and loves the no-code environment of SAS® Viya®. Or maybe you’re a Python devotee at
SAS users help drive innovation, providing feedback on SAS products through various mediums, including customer advisory boards, communities, SASware ballot ideas and SAS Global Forum. The SAS User Feedback Award is presented annually to a user whose recommendations and insights lead to significant improvements to SAS software. This year SAS
As data volumes continue to surge (with no signs of slowing down), the cost to handle all that data can have a very real impact on IT budgets. But for all the talk of the growing value of data, the cost side of the equation is often overlooked. After all,
