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.
I can still remember the emergence in the 1990s of Java as a universal and largely open-sourced programming language. Some observers believed it would signal the eventual demise of proprietary languages such as C, Fortran and Cobol. Current surveys, however, and there are many, confirm that plenty of people continue
Don’t laugh, but increasingly I find myself thinking that I’ve been here before. I often find that the underlying situation and argument are familiar, albeit in a slightly different context, with newer brands or technologies. For example, I was recently asked to assist an overseas team respond to a request
