+Alison Bolen is an editor at SAS, where she writes and edits content about analytics and emerging topics. Since starting at SAS in 1999, Alison has edited print publications, Web sites, e-newsletters, customer success stories and blogs. She has a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from Ohio University and a master’s degree in technical writing from North Carolina State University.
Starting in 2007, according to IDC, the amount of data captured and replicated worldwide outgrew our total available storage capacity. Total data captured that year equaled 281 exabytes and storage capacity equaled 264 exabytes. These numbers - and that gap - have been growing exponentially ever since. And that's just one
Our SAS bloggers have been writing so many good posts lately that they just fly off the home page within a couple of days. As a courtesy to those of you who don't visit the blogs home page every day, I'm planning to do these semi-regular wrap-ups that point out
"Unless you understand the data aspects of the problem, you're not going to be able to solve it." ~ Thornton May, IT futurist and author of The New Know. In this brief video interview excerpt, Thornton suggests four tips for solving problems analytically: Focus on the pressing issues of
In case you missed it, lots of analytic professionals are expressing their opinions about analytics in the new community allanalytics.com. The active conversations keep growing over there, and the daily content updates offer a lot of prompts for expressing your thoughts on analytics. If anonymous input is more your speed,
It's no secret that the Raleigh area is a great place to work, live and raise a family. One visit to the rtp blog gives you an idea of just how good it is. I love how the banner display underneath the blog's header ticks off of a list of the
I remember friends in grad school saying they dreamed about telecommuting full-time and working every day from their home offices. At the time, I lived in North Carolia and worked at the beautiful SAS campus, so the thought of working from a dimly lit home office with a particle board desk
The promise of high-performance analytics, as I understand it, is this: Regardless of how you store your data or how much of it there is, complex analytical procedures can still access that data, conduct a series of calculations on that data and provide answers quickly, accurately and using the full
The Platform Development team in SAS R&D has a vision for how SAS applications will be built and deployed in the future. It’s a vision that accounts for recent trends in cloud computing, high performance computing, open APIs and smart phone app stores. It’s also a vision that promises to
As part of the staffing efforts for the new SAS Center for Health Analytics and Insights (CHAI), SAS recently hired Dr. Graham Hughes, MD, as the company’s first Chief Medical Officer (CMO). When I heard the news, I sent a few questions to Graham to learn more about the new
Does your company have an internal social network, wiki or blog network? We have all three - and more - on the SAS intranet. Karen Lee, Director of Internal Communications at SAS, was recently interviewed by World at Work about the use of social media internally at SAS. In this
