It's true. "Big data" can be a problem and an opportunity. Many organizations have struggled to manage, much less profit from, the deluge. In 2012, look for big data to spur demand for big data analytics. New developments in high-performance computing as well as increased demand for visualization and text
Many of our SAS bloggers are ringing in the new year with advice and ideas for 2012, including: Rachel Alt-Simmons suggests four items to add to your New Year's resolution lists - with a focus on learning and connecting. Rick Wicklin sets some goals for his blog in 2012 -
Happy New Year, everyone! It’s that wonderful time of the year when people start anew and we all start making promises to ourselves about the things we want to accomplish in the year ahead. If you’re looking for some ways to ramp up your personal and professional expertise this year,
As Kirsten mentioned in her Social at SAS post, this has been a big year for the blogging program for SAS. We introduced seven new blogs, combined a few others and migrated about 3,000 posts and 200 bloggers to this new platform. It was a big project, but we're really
Big data has been a hot topic recently, but more often than not the topic is covered from an IT perspective. What do the analysts, data miners and statisticians think? I recall the old days discussing with statisticians what data mining is and how it fundamentally differs from statistics. In
The role of the CIO is changing. Or was that the CFO? The CEO maybe? Somebody's role is changing, that much I do know. How many times have you read just such an opening statement in an article or white paper and muttered “duh?” to yourself before moving on to
Quick – what was the key point of the last vendor email that you received? Or the main value points of the last website you reviewed? Or the core propositions in the last presentation that was delivered to you? Or the half-life of the last tweet that you read? Nowadays,
Hear directly from an organization that is firing on all cylinders with analytics and achieving true data-driven insight in all its business areas. On Dec. 14, SAS customer Kelley Blue Book (KBB) and SAS Alliance partner Modern Analytics will share firsthand learnings during a live webinar, "Analytics – An Inside Perspective,”
December 4 marked the beginning of Computer Science Education Week, and I'd like to take a moment to consider how the business community might support K-12 schools as they respond to this rapidly changing field. Many years ago when computer science courses first appeared in schools, they were considered “extra”
I have previously dealt independently with issues of forecasting, planning, and budgeting in separate posts, and the time has now come to pull them all together in one place and just come out and say what I really mean. This integrative post was prompted by a recent invitation I received
