Contributed by Amy Prince, SAS Marketing Operations Specialist At the upcoming SAS Power Series session, creativity will be contagious. Attendees agree the most important part of these power sessions is the peer-to-peer networking where participants discuss (and debate) the technology and business issues facing their industries today. You don’t want
In a recent post on Forbes' Blog SAS Spurned IBM, Now to Win!, the blogger quoted SAS CEO Jim Goodnight expressing confidence about the future of SAS, but concern over the lack of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) graduates coming out of US universities. Goodnight confides that his biggest worry is the ability to hire the
In these long, hot (and wet! At least in the Northeast) days of summer, while people are off on vacation and doing other summer-type stuff, I’ve decided to use the “down” time to do something new. I’m working on a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project around increasing the effectiveness
Due to the rapid changes in both the health care market and more specifically the amount of fraud being committed in it, it is even more important than ever to maintain some degree of life cycle management to update the analyses used to detect and identify aberrant activity. However, many
Have you ever had a day when you physically feel dizzy because so many things are going on all at once? I know you have. I'm reading the book Real-Time Marketing & PR, which talks about the new immediate pace my profession needs to proactively and reactively communicate. (Quick, tell
The SIFMA Financial Services Technology Leaders Forum and Expo came to Midtown New York City in mid-June to more fanfare than in the past few years with speakers including Jim Cramer, Art Cashin, Gillian Tett, senior executives from capital markets firms including NYSE Euronext and DTCC, and regulators from the
In the June 26th edition of The New York Times, I came across an article entitled “Got Twitter? You’ve Been Scored.” Uh-oh – what does that mean? The reporter imagines a world where “we are all assigned a number that indicates how influential we are. This number would help determine
Contributed by Amy Prince, SAS Marketing Operations Same stuff, different year is what comes to mind following our first Power Series session in Minneapolis earlier this month. What’s different this year? The SAS Power Series is a NEW, highly interactive, dynamic few hours designed to address some of the biggest
With just a couple of weeks to go, things are well underway for this year's Convention. As ever, it'll be a few days dedicated to SAS professionals, held in the heart of the Buckinghamshire countryside. Fingers crossed for great weather; not always guaranteed in July! We'll be live blogging and
Contributed by Bob Messier, Senior Director of Business Analytics, SAS Last week I participated in the SAS Power Series event in Minneapolis. It included about 23-30 folks representing a broad range of industries. Analytics was the central topic of the event. What is analytics? How do you get your organization
