With just a couple of weeks to go, things are well underway for this year’s SAS Professionals 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
I’m an avid listener to BBC Radio 4, and have been for a good couple of decades. I wake up to the Today programme, the shipping forecast helps me sleep, and now – with the advent of podcasts – I listen to all my favourite programmes in the car and
Contributed by Bruce Kitto, Director, SAS R&D We recently introduced a concept called “Do Your Own Thing” day in the Customer Intelligence Division of SAS R&D, and I wanted to tell you a little about it. Like most R&D divisions at most companies, our employees are focused most of the
They said it would never happen again, but it appears that the Solvency II deadline has been postponed once more. The Council of Europe, on which the member states sit, has agreed a proposal that Solvency II should now come into force from 1 January 2014, a year later than
At this year’s America’s Claims Event (ACE) conference in New Orleans, Gary Gilver, Vice President of Claim Operations at Cincinnati Financial referenced in-database processing and predictive analytics as two key technologies that will dramatically influence the future of claims processing. He urged insurers, “if you’re not having conversations about these
Contributed by Thornton May, IT Futurist On June 15, 2011 twenty plus analytic pioneers from twelve different vertical markets convened to explore the current state and future trajectory of enterprise analytics. Each participant in The SAS Power Series event brought with them intellect, energy, curiosity and a challenge. During the
I'm an avid listener to BBC Radio 4, and have been for a good couple of decades. I wake up to the Today programme, the shipping forecast helps me sleep, and now - with the advent of podcasts - I listen to all my favourite programmes in the car and
I have recently discovered “mind mapping.” Mind mapping is not a new concept, but since I (re)learned it, I’ve found it to be an excellent tool for analyzing business problems and processes. I thought you might find it interesting too! Here’s an example: The other day, I was thinking about
Facilitated by Mary P. Flynn of Disney Institute, the “Inspiring Creativity" Masterclass at The Premier Business Leadership Series was an amazing insight into Disney's approach to inspiring creativity and turning innovation into everyday practice. Whatever else you may feel about Disney, no one can accuse them of anything less than
The SAS Government Leadership Summit is now behind us and I couldn’t be more pleased with the content delivered by the great line-up of panelists and speakers. We knew that uncovering inefficiencies, fighting fraud and improper payments, and the importance of analytics would be recurring themes. But an unexpected thread
