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Alyssa Farrell
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Advisory Industry Marketing Manager, SAS

Alyssa Farrell leads industry marketing for the SAS Global Health and Life Sciences Practice. In this role, she focuses on the SAS solutions that help optimize health outcomes for individuals and their communities. Alyssa is actively engaged in analyst relations, market research and influencer marketing to stay on top of industry trends and align SAS capabilities to customer needs. She has also supported the global energy and public sector teams during her career at SAS. Prior to joining SAS in 2004, Alyssa was a senior consultant in the Deloitte Public Sector practice. She earned her MBA degree with a concentration in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Duke University. Follow Alyssa on Twitter @alyssa_farrell and LinkedIn at http://LinkedIn.com/in/alyssafarrell

Data Management
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A must-read for petroleum professionals

Oil companies are being forced to explore in geologically complex and remote areas to exploit more unconventional hydrocarbon deposits.  New engineering technology has pushed the envelope of previous upstream experience.  No guidebook existed on how computing methodologies can contribute to E&P performance at reduced risk.  Until now. A new book

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Forecasting insights from nPower

In case you weren’t aware of the importance of forecasting for a utility company, it’s really BIG. Not only are you predicting the amount of power required to keep the lights on for fickle residential customers and for complex industrial businesses, you employ hedging strategies to protect against any unforeseen

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Power it on: The smart grid is ready!

"Big data" is a big deal for electric utilities.  In a smart power grid, when you turn on the lights, you're generating data. When your neighbor plugs in his electric vehicle, he's generating data. When a heat wave causes retailers to crank up the air conditioning, they're generating data. All

Analytics
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Experts discuss value of energy analytics

How often do you question the availability of power? Outside of weather events, the answer is probably, “not much.” But what if you have an electric vehicle?  Or manage a data center?  Rely on either of those technologies and you might consider electricity as a constraint, around which you plan

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Touring the future of the Smart Grid

The Networked Grid event has kicked off in the Triangle.  Home to over 60 companies working on smart grid technologies, the Research Triangle may be “the silicon valley of the smart grid,” says conference host GreenTech Media (GTM). As a leading analytics player already installed at over 500 utility customer sites, certainly SAS