One day in February 2011, only a couple weeks after launching the SAS enterprise social network (ESN), The Hub, I was working from home and couldn't connect to the company's internal private network. After trying some tips I found online with no success, I sent a help desk request to our
Analytics can uncover insights that compel us to view the world in new ways. An avid golfer friend of mine used analytics to improve his golf game—turning all of his pre-conceived notions about his strengths and weaknesses upside-down. All golfers like to tell tall tales, not unlike fishermen, but Tom
What makes your business more successful? According to Kimberly Holmes, Senior VP of Strategic Analytics at XL Group plc, “Our success is about asking more questions and finding out the answers." If that's the case with your business too, you need tools to help you ask more questions and explore many
To read more ongoing tips and insights for small and midsize businesses, follow our SAS4SMB blog series or visit SAS for Small and MidSize Business. Data underpins the operations and strategic decisions of every business. Yet these days, data is generated faster than it can be digested, making it challenging
Just for a moment, think back to the days when you were in middle school. Chances are, at some point you asked your teacher, "WHY do we have to study this stuff?" or "When will I ever USE this stuff?" Students are still asking those questions today, but there is
Keeping the peace is a hard job. Since it's December 7—Pearl Harbor Day—I'd like to thank the men and women who've served in the U.S. Armed Forces, past or present. Military veterans pay a huge price to protect America. Some lose their lives. Some come home with broken limbs or
Several weeks ago, South Carolina was the victim of what some experts believe to be the largest cyber-attack against a state tax department in history. Approximately 3.6 million personal South Carolina income tax returns were exposed, and nearly 657,000 businesses compromised, in an international hacking attack. Coincidentally, SAS and the SC
… and any fool will mind it”. ~ Henry David Thoreau. The EPA was in my neighborhood several weeks ago testing well water - never a good sign. It was determined that the subdivision just north and upstream of us had once been the site of a farm contaminated by
There's an interesting and relevant read in this month's issue of The Atlantic about a "data vigilante." Uri Simonsohn, a social psychologist, has been outing fraudulent research based on his re-inspection of the data in the published works. I've pulled a few facts from the article that are going to sound obvious
To read more ongoing tips and insights for small and midsize businesses, follow our SAS4SMB blog series or visit SAS for Small and MidSize Business . The software industry is a complicated place, with new technologies constantly being introduced. As a small and midsize business (SMB), how can you keep up
