During the Dutch Golden Age (spanning the 17th century), artists like Vermeer, Jan Steen and Rembrandt produced amazing scenes of everyday life, realistic portraits, and moody landscapes infused with shadows and light. Through their skilled use of paint and brush, these “Dutch Masters” provided new ways of looking at the world around us.

Today, as the amount of data grows exponentially, we are entering another Golden Age, this one of Analytics. Powerful technologies like SAS High-Performance Analytics are helping organizations in banking, insurance, retail, energy, government and other sectors. With analytics applied to “Big Data,” these organizations are discovering new insights, better understanding their customers, improving operations, and making more accurate and timely business decisions.

The atmospheric conditions (read: rain) in Amsterdam this morning at the Premier Business Leadership Series event are not dampening the excitement around analytics. SAS is announcing new innovation in its SAS High-Performance Analytics family, as well as news related to enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and its strong partner program. For more, visit the Premier Business Leadership Series-Amsterdam media kit.

Welcome to a new Golden Age … where analytics reveal new landscapes and new directions … where data scientists apply their skills and new analytics technology to transform raw data into new ways of looking at the world around us.

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