As energy systems become more distributed, digital and dynamic, utilities are increasingly turning to AI and IoT to help modernize operations, improve reliability and accelerate decarbonization. Yet according to the IDC InfoBrief, How AIoT Is Reshaping Industrial Efficiency, Security, and Decision-Making, more than half of AIoT initiatives are still stuck in
Rockin' around the Christmas tree, Have a happy holiday – Brenda Lee An internet search for "How many lights do I need for my Christmas tree," returns many opinions. A popular answer is that you need "one strand of lights for each foot of your tree." Another common answer is
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant horizon – it’s here, reshaping how marketers engage with audiences and create experiences that last. Over the past year, generative AI (GenAI) has become the new status quo. More than 85% of marketing teams worldwide are already using it, with 93% having dedicated
Using college football recruiting and talent data as an example, let's see how DuckDB’s flexibility and SAS integration streamline complex transformations and queries.
Coffee fuels mornings around the world, with more than 60% of American adults reaching for a cup (or three) each day. Yet as coffee culture thrives, more people are rethinking their caffeine intake and turning to decaf as an alternative. But decaf often raises questions: How is it made? Is
Clinical trials are the most costly, time-consuming, and heavily regulated stages in drug development, often costing hundreds of millions of dollars and sometimes exceeding a billion dollars. Every month of delay cuts into the patent-protected window that determines a drug’s commercial viability, with companies losing tens of millions of dollars
Learn how to save time and money when performing multiple repeated measures analyses with the LOGSELECT and GENSELECT procedures in SAS Viya.
In univariate data analysis, the median is often used as an alternative to the mean because the mean is sensitive to outliers in the data, whereas the median is a robust statistic. For higher-dimensional data, the mean and the centroid are both used to represent the "center" of a cloud
Getting Started with Job Scheduling in SAS Viya If you have ever had to manually trigger Viya jobs, you know the drill: it is tedious, and one forgotten click can throw everything off. That is where SAS Viya job scheduling comes in. It lets you automate your programs, data loads,
Responsible innovation is more than a framework. It’s the discipline of building technology that earns trust. As AI becomes more capable and deeply embedded in business workflows, organizations must ensure that every decision, design choice, and workflow supports accountability, transparency and human-centered outcomes. The Responsible Innovator Spotlight is a new
People are starting to compile resolutions for the new year, focusing on evolving their own habits and goals. At SAS, we’ve also looked toward 2026 to gather predictions on how AI in the public sector might evolve over the next 12 months. Prediction: By 2026, governments will utilize large language
There are moments in your career that stay with you forever – not because they were carefully orchestrated – but because they were fueled by passion and a desire to make a real difference. For R&D Senior Director, Dan Tamburro, one of those moments came shortly after the terrorist attacks
As companies rush to adopt GenAI, one question keeps coming up: How do we make all this intelligence useful on the plant floor? SAS Vice President of IoT Jason Mann and Jobi George, Global VP of Business Development at Weaviate, discussed how vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are enabling manufacturers
Recently, a colleague struggled to find the source of a run-time error happening somewhere within a very large library of SAS IML function modules. Since the error happens at run time, I told my colleague about how to find the location of a run time error by reading the traceback
As a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Massey University, one of New Zealand’s leading tertiary institutions, my role as an educator is to prepare students to thrive in a rapidly evolving, data-driven world. I have always believed that analytics education must strike a balance between technical capability and critical thinking,
Generative AI (GenAI) has seemingly permanently shifted the trajectory of enterprise strategy, offering a way to transform massive amounts of unstructured data into actionable, contextual intelligence. However, as organizations move past pilot projects and scale this technology, they run headfirst into a widening gap between the potential of AI and
Each year, the SAS Finance Analytics School (SAS FAS4S) brings students inside the real world of financial decisioning – far beyond what any classroom lecture can offer. It’s a rare chance to see how analytics, AI and fraud prevention actually work inside banks, public institutions, and regulatory environments. That’s what
For years, “responsible AI” has lived comfortably as a corporate promise, a slide in a presentation, a talking point at a conference. But as the EU AI Act phases into force, that comfort is rapidly eroding. The regulation officially entered into force on August 1, 2024, but its obligations will
In some applications, it is useful to permute the rows or the columns of a matrix. A previous article discusses how random permutation of columns (within each row) are useful in constructing permutation tests. This article shows a simpler situation: Permuting the rows of a matrix to change their order.
Digital banking has made convenience the norm, but it’s also made fraud inevitable. The accelerating pace of digital transactions – real-time payments, mobile banking, embedded finance – creates new opportunities for innovation and opens the door to more sophisticated fraud. This is where AI steps in. Not just as a
Data is growing faster than most organizations’ ability to manage it. At the same time, business leaders are under pressure to deliver insights quickly and cost‑effectively. Traditional, closed systems often make that harder: they lock data into proprietary formats, increase duplication and limit flexibility. That’s why open data architecture is
Discover how to establish a foundation for success with AI in insurance.
The holiday season can be joyful, exciting, exhausting and stressful! Add hosting a large meal on top of that and it can get overwhelming. Following a few guidelines and some hosting tips can help reduce that overwhelmed feeling. Planning ahead, outsourcing where you can, and delegating can help make the
At SAS, we use and contribute to a wide range of open source projects. This series – SAS Contributes – highlights how our teams give back to the open source community. In this installment, we’re focusing on OpenSearch. If you’ve ever sifted through thousands of system logs or product reviews to
This is the fourth in a five-part blog post series that delves into modernizing marketing strategies through the integration of advanced marketing platforms. I had the pleasure of interviewing Shaun Memon of Munvo for this series, where we discuss a wide range of topics, from fragmented MarTech stacks, first-party data
One of the lesser talked-about issues large organizations face is the siloes that their various business units operate in. It’s a peculiar situation born from the specificity of tasks and objectives assigned to hyper-specialized teams within an enterprise. This separation of tasks inevitably leads to critical dependencies between teams. However,
It is difficult to evaluate high-dimensional integrals. One numerical technique that can be useful is quasi-Monte Carlo integration. In this article, I show how you can generate quasirandom points in SAS and use them to evaluate a definite integral on a compact region. For simplicity, the example in this article
If you’re building AI solutions today, you already know the stakes: faster decisions, trusted results and the ability to scale without blowing up your compute budget. What you may not always see is what’s happening under the hood to make that possible. That’s where strong technology partnerships matter. For more
Digital twin technology generates diverse, accurately labeled synthetic datasets in virtual environments, enabling faster, safer, and more reliable AI model development for PPE detection.
I had the privilege of joining the Dean’s Speaker Series at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, hosted in partnership with the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. My sincere thanks to Dean Mary Margaret Frank, the Kenan Institute team and all who made this event possible. It was an honor to share
