I enjoy writing about our customers. They are doing great things with SAS Analytics. Operating in Africa under the Azur brand, Bintel is a fast-growing mobile communications services provider. Bintel chose SAS Analytics to improve its effectiveness of marketing campaigns. SAS Analytics will allow Azur to streamline the campaign process
It was fun to see Amitava Ghosh, Senior Vice President at Reliance Communications on his visit to SAS headquarters. I was thrilled to learn that "Ami" -- my former neighbor -- is now a SAS customer using SAS Customer Intelligence to optimize campaign management. Even more exciting, Ami allowed me
In the beginning there was just raw data... rows and columns of numbers in strict, structured, disciplined formats generated by a variety of transactional and operational business systems. The volume - while quite large - was still manageable. And it was good. Well, good enough at least. Then, the “content
Last week in these high-performance analytics posts, we talked about user examples from Telstra, Samsung Securities and Wharton Research Data Services. Elsewhere, SAS CTO Keith Collins provided use case scenarios for high-performance analytics in banking, retail, government and health care companies. If you don't see yourself or your company in any
Everyone around SAS seems to be buzzing about big data and high-performance analytics (HPA). As we're preparing for conferences, product launches and customer engagements, it's the main idea on almost everyone's mind. Along with that excitement and buzz, however, it's worthwhile to step back and look at how we got here, and
The volatile financial markets leave no wiggle room for risk. Or second thoughts. We need the right answers to some tough questions, and we need them now. There is zero tolerance for errors. And no time for delays. Samsung Securities gets it. That's why they've boosted their SAS solution for enterprise risk management
Mobile phone data is one obvious example of "big data." Not only does it include call records for every customer and every phone, but it might include network data on how those customers connect with one another. Data stores could also contain location-based data, application usage data and data about different
In most of the articles and press pieces that speak of health care fraud, the topic is usually covered in broad terms regarding the type or activity that has taken place: over-billing to Medicare/Medicaid, services billed and not delivered, over subscription of medication (by members or Pharmacies), and the list
When I first started hearing SAS CEO Jim Goodnight talk about high-performance analytics (HPA), I was fascinated. But I have to admit that my mind was spinning a bit from the terminology: blades, cores, captains, generals and so on. But then the metaphorical nature of these terms clicked for me,
After a week of me sharing links and blogging about my thoughts on high-performance analytics, some of you may be saying, "Yes, but how are customers using it? What are the practical benefits, already?" With that in mind, I'd like to spend some time this week pointing out customer stories
