The world's largest analytics education conference, Analytics 2012, is set for June 14-15 in Cologne, Germany. According to previous attendees, it’s the training, professional connections, vendor contacts and hands-on experience with analytics tools that keep them coming back. Marcel Bieler of Aduno Group said, "Analytics 2012 allows an opportunity to
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The speed and accuracy of your organization's response to complex analysis can make or break a decision, opportunity or profitable execution. Organizations are increasingly turning to innovative technologies such as high-performance analytics to ensure timely, precise decisions. Join live as Scott Chastain, Director of Information Management and Delivery, SAS, along
Jim Goodnight and Jim Davis, respectively SAS CEO and SVP/CMO, recently took to the road to tell the media about the unique capabilities of SAS Visual Analytics and how this software rocks the enterprise software world. The resulting news coverage was off the charts. With stops in New York City
Mikhail Semeniuk, Director of Analytics at TrueCar, will explain why his company turned to SAS for an analytics solution that didn't require a large staff but was flexible enough to grow with the company, and powerful enough to better manage data and create fast, accurate forecasts. Mikhail works on the
In my last blog post I revealed the WOW factor of SAS Visual Analytics. In summary: analyzing billions of rows of data, across vast numbers of columns, via 100+ correlation calculations in SECONDS (wow). What exactly does that mean? SAS Visual Analytics takes full advantage of SAS’ high-performance analytics technology.
Dr. Carlos Pinheiro works harder to share his knowledge than anyone else I know. Last year I saw him speak at industry conferences three times. This year he will be on the road again speaking in Orlando (SAS Global Forum), Cologne (Analytics 2012), and Dublin (TMForum). In this recent webinar, Carlos
When you begin your career your most important skills are your hard, technical skills; the finance and accounting, the statistics and economics, the physics and chemistry, the engineering and calculus. But as I tell my business school mentees, as your career progresses, the emphasis changes such that much sooner than
As the Industry Marketing Manager for Education at SAS, I get to talk to lots of education customers about how they’re using SAS software. I hear the many great things they’re doing with SAS and often wonder: What is the secret of their success? So I started working with our
The start of the year seems to have been full of uncertainty for European financial markets. This seems to apply to everything from Greek debt to bankers’ bonuses and, despite access to so much information about what is happening globally, it remains difficult to understand what is certain fact and
I remember the first time I saw a Cirque du Soleil® performance—the artistry, the split-second timing, that repeating sense of WOW. I was an instant fan. Funny… but I got that same sense of awe the first time I saw a demo of SAS® Visual Analytics. I’d read the project