According to Forbes, a comprehensive "big data" strategy is vital because without one your business will miss out on at least 71 million dollars a year! To me this means your "big data" strategy should be more focused on how best to derive value from your data instead of focusing
The one blog post that stuck out for me in this year’s annual onslaught of New Year’s predictions posts was published by Forrester Research, Inc. Big Data Predictions For 2013* by Forrester’s Mike Gualtieri offers solid and realistic advice amidst the hype surrounding big data. Gualtieri’ main predictions are: Firms will realize
I'm making my debut on television! Tune in to WRAL-TV on Friday evening, January 11, 2013. I'll be featured on a Good Things! segment which airs during the 5:30 newscast. (You should see me approximately 5:55pm EST.) [Update: If you missed the segment, not to worry. They've posted a
According to a recent article from Forbes, the three hottest trends in retail for 2013 are: Mobile -- 93 percent of mobile developers anticipate that it is “likely to very likely” that most retail companies will have enabled mobile commerce in 2013, and 2/3 of developers believe that consumers will
Dateline: October 4, 2012 – Facebook reaches one billion users! One billion people connected on a single platform; one-seventh of the world’s population. If you assume 40,000 BCE as the start of modern humans, it took the planet 41,804 years to reach a population level of one billion; it took
Did you have a favorite SAS blog or blogger this year? Maybe you discovered something about big data or learned a useful statistical programming technique. Or maybe you found a SAS blogger who makes you laugh. Let's look at the best of the best SAS blogs and blog posts this
It goes without saying that if you know the value of analytics, it can sometimes be frustrating when leaders who may not have an analytic background do not understand or see the difference between basic reporting and advanced analytics. At SAS, we often refer to those two very different things
In the last 30 years supply chains have been asked to take on a leading role as a facilitator for the proposed pull methodology, as needed to be more responsive to demands of the customer. This new and reactive supply chain would enable practitioners to quickly act upon demand signals
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
