There was a time, not all that long ago, when telecom executives could understand all the major technology trends expected to impact the business over the next few years. For example, if you wanted to know why packet switching was more efficient for data traffic than circuit switching, you talked
I asked a cross-section of SAS bloggers for their blogging advice, and documented their answers in a recent presentation. Click through the slides below to see what they said. Blogging Tips from SAS Bloggers View more presentations from Alison Bolen. If the slides don't work for you, you can also
Hotels and airlines have traditionally optimized revenues by forecasting demand against a pre-set rate structure, and offering rates (or opening and closing fare classes) based on predicted demand levels. While inventory allocation, along with overbooking and length of stay controls, has resulted in revenue increases, executives have not always stopped
I hope you saw my previous post on lessons learned in retail, which shared insights from industry leaders Terry Donofrio, President of Retail Systems & Services; Frank Andryauskas, former CIO and Executive VP of Supply Chain for KB Toys; and Val Trivisonno, VP of Commercial for The Body Shop Canada.
I'm listening to Jon Weisz, marketing director for JMP, talk about data-driven story telling. He's explaining the differences between statistics and data visualization. Statistics are often used to confirm a hypothesis, he says. Data visualization is used for exploration. Jon's defining models as approximations: "We're attempting to experiment and determine
The title of this presentation is, "Connect with SAS Professionals around the World with LinkedIn and sasCommunity.org." Kirk Paul Laffler is presenting the talk that he co-wrote with Charles Shipp. Originally this presentation was written to cover only sasCommunity.org, but they updated it recently to include LinkedIn, in recognition of
SAS CIO Suzanne Gordon starts her speech by asking groups of us to stand if we're programmers, statisticians, analysts or communicators. She's going to talk to us about prospering - both in a down economy and in a good economy. Suzanne received a degree in math & computer science. She
I'm posting this live from the Midwest SAS User's Group (MWSUG) in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Attendees are eating dinner, and we're about to hear John Sall, Executive Vice President of SAS, talk about the history of the company he co-founded along with Jim Goodnight, Tony Barr and Jen Helwig in
Last week at the SAS Retail Executive Seminar held in Cary, NC, I was able to catch up with industry leaders and ask them a few questions about what’s going on in retail -- and their predictions for what’s coming next. Keynote speaker Terry Donofrio, President of Retail Systems &
In Shakespeare’s tragedy of Hamlet, the sycophantic Osric, who witnessed Hamlet’s “very palpable hit” during a fencing duel, forces Claudius to adopt another strategy to achieve his goal, Hamlet’s murder. I see this analogy playing out more and more frequently among the International oil companies (IOCs) and National oil companies
