Inspired by a fresh appreciation of what SAS does with data, I ventured last week into the annual SAS Programming for High School class here at headquarters. In the corporate classroom, I found a dozen educators from four states sacrificing five days of summer vacation. Their mission: to equip themselves
It's always important to remember your fundamentals. Sort of like a basketball player who practices lay-ups and free throws for hours on end, you need the fundamentals in the midst of the game. Having the skills or knowledge in the heat of the moment - when it counts - is
Rome was not built in a day. Similarly, high-performance analytics is a product of many cumulative architectural, computational and analytical advances. The ability to solve complex business problems by applying algorithms from multiple disciplines to increasingly large volumes of data of all types - both structured and unstructured - is
Does your company have an internal social network, wiki or blog network? We have all three - and more - on the SAS intranet. Karen Lee, Director of Internal Communications at SAS, was recently interviewed by World at Work about the use of social media internally at SAS. In this
Agility. I've been giving a lot of thought to the term while here in San Diego for the TDWI World Conference. "Evolving Your Agile BI Environment" is the theme of this year's event and "agility" has definitely been embedded in the conversations I have had with customers the past few
Since SAS is known as an innovative company, I jumped at the chance to hear advice from five SAS leaders on how to be more innovative. The following tips come from a recent panel discussion at SAS titled, “What does innovation look like to you?” Innovation is about solving problems,
I’m a data-entry freak. This was not always true. I have balked at the simplest online form, passing up great free stuff because it required entering data. But that all changed because of a free app for the iPhone. I wanted to drop a few pounds and decided to give
In preparation for TDWI San Diego, I was finalizing my schedule and checking out what some of my favorite TDWI instructors are up to for San Diego. I'll be blogging about my fave classes from these instructors all next week. This evening I caught up on Cindi Howson 's blog
As a follow-up to my appearance on CNBC’s, The Call July 22, I feel it is appropriate to comment further on the fraud risks we are seeing across industries due to the continued move online. Karen Tso did a nice job of raising the significant cyber-crime issues we see due to
While doing research for my book The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics I asked the chieftains of the various corporate tribes roaming the value forest [e.g., finance, HR, marketing, operations, IT, and legal] two framing questions: What/how did they feel about themselves and the future trajectory of their discipline.
