Thousands of people have participated in this year's Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series, and now is your chance to get in on it too! Whether you are able to join in live on July 20 or view later on demand, you'll want to catch the complimentary Webinar, “Text Analytics –
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Contributed by Amy Prince, SAS Marketing Operations Specialist At the upcoming SAS Power Series session, creativity will be contagious. Attendees agree the most important part of these power sessions is the peer-to-peer networking where participants discuss (and debate) the technology and business issues facing their industries today. You don’t want
Contributed by Amy Prince, SAS Marketing Operations Same stuff, different year is what comes to mind following our first Power Series session in Minneapolis earlier this month. What’s different this year? The SAS Power Series is a NEW, highly interactive, dynamic few hours designed to address some of the biggest
Contributed by Bob Messier, Senior Director of Business Analytics, SAS Last week I participated in the SAS Power Series event in Minneapolis. It included about 23-30 folks representing a broad range of industries. Analytics was the central topic of the event. What is analytics? How do you get your organization
In getting ready for the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operation Research next week in Chicago, I caught up with Jodi Blomberg, a Technical Architect at SAS, to hear more about the paper she's presenting on April 11th. Here's a little preview of what Jodi has to share. For
Simply put, optimization is the process of choosing the permissible actions that result in the best outcome. This is the underlying concept, no matter how complex the means by which optimization is implemented. On these terms, virtually all activity – whether of enterprises, groups, individuals or microorganisms – can be
Tapan and I had the chance to talk with Karen Washburn, Manager for the SAS Business Knowledge Series, a SAS Education Division program, who is joining us at Predictive Analytics World this week! Karen will be participating in the conference and seeking out new partners to join the Business Knowledge
Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer (CAO) of Teradata spent some time with us this week to talk about next week's Predictive Analytics World activities! Predictive Analytics World that takes place during Data Driven Business Week March 14-15 in San Francisco. Any thoughts you would like to share about the upcoming
My colleague I-Kong Fu introduced me and several of other SAS colleagues to Nathan Gilliat, co-founder of AnalyticsCamp, which is an unconference for analytics. Whatever flavor of analytics you work with—web, email, social media, marketing, big enterprise BI, you name it—this is the place to meet and learn from interesting
We're behind the scenes again for Predictive Analytics World! Tapan Patel and I recently caught up with James Taylor, CEO, Decision Management Solutions for a quick Q&A session on Predictive Analytics World that takes place during Data Driven Busines Week March 14-15 in San Francisco. Any thoughts you would like