I don’t know about you … but I get hundreds of e-mails a day! Not only e-mail – but text messages, tweets, e-mail advertising, notices from blogs, rss feeds…coming to me at a numbingly fast pace day and night. It’s information overload. It’s also overwhelming. And, on a personal level –
Data is everywhere,and getting to and managing that information is vital for accurate reporting, analysis and proactive decision making. This brings us to Best Practice # 3: Identify and Integrate Authoritative, Trusted Data Sources. As you might remember, these tips all come from my interviews with SAS education customers. From Best
My name is Tonya, and I’m a Statistician. It’s true. I’ve been one for almost 20 years now. I was crunching numbers and analyzing data long before statistician landed on the sexiest profession list. And now, it seems like that claim to fame has faded in the face of an
Today, more companies are offering more products in more markets in more currencies to more customer segments than ever before. The result? An exponential explosion in data covering virtually every aspect of the organization: sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, legal, HR, and more. Unquestionably, the era of “big data” has arrived.
Retail is one of the most time-sensitive industries. Find out how mega-chain Family Dollar Stores Inc., which operates more than 7,400 stores in 45 states, relies on high-performance analytics to shrink data processing windows from days to less than an hour and speed decision making. Scott Zucker, Vice President of
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I am sharing best practices that I learned from talking to education customers about successful implement ions of information management, reporting and analytics at their K-12 school district or higher education institutions. In that first post, we learned about the importance of securing executive
Indulge me…I've always thought being a reporter would be fun! Picture it: 9:00 AM. Big office. Lots of people. Lots of questions. Lots and lots and lots of data. But no real insights. Along comes a new software solution. Easy-to-use interface. The world’s best analytics. Served up in a way
With all of the great information coming out of this week’s Gartner Business Intelligence Summit and the recent wave of vendors arriving on the big data scene, we decided to take a hard look at how we stack up. First, here’s our take on big data: Data – big or
Lots of buzz around SAS High-Performance Analytics in the news lately! In case you missed it, here are a couple of great reads: In the latest issue of BAI Banking Strategies, SAS CTO Keith Collins talks about leveraging data with high-performance analytics. He explains that financial institutions need to deploy
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
