In mid-March I attended the Gartner BI Summit held at the Gaylord National Resort in Washington DC. It was neither a resort nor was it in DC. How can they call it a resort when there’s no beach, golf course, ski slopes or anything else to attract someone looking for
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was this morning’s keynote presenter at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference in Washington, DC. The theme of the conference is, “Leading with Confidence in an Era of Uncertainty,” which can certainly apply to the commercial sector as well as political leaders. She
I recently attended the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) “Big Think”. The Big Think is an annual invitation-only event hosted by Tracy Mullen, CEO of NRF, and her staff. NRF is the “voice” of retail and represents an industry with more than 1.6 million U.S. retail companies, more than 25 million
I’ll admit I am particularly fond of a saying, “Begin at the beginning.” All too often we get ahead of ourselves when trying to tackle a problem. And without a clear understanding of the full scope of a problem, there’s always the risk of making it worse. Something like this
The second day of Predictive Analytics World was every bit as good as the first. Attendance was much greater than expected - yes, we are in the era of analytics! The talk from Sun Microsystems was about reaching both customers who had more time than money as well as customers
It's great to see so many in attendance for the first-ever Predictive Analytics World. I've heard a lot of interesting talks already (too bad some are in parallel making choices hard). A recap and highlights of the talks I was able to hear and the conversations I had during breakouts
At SmartDataCollective, Sandro Saitta has a list of data miners on Twitter. Here at SAS, we're planning to tag all SAS Global Forum tweets with the hashtag #sgf09. This will make it easy for anyone to follow conversations about SAS Global Forum now and during the conference by searching for
Do you remember the article, "This is your life ... with SAS" from the second quarter 2008 issue of sascom magazine? If you do, you'll remember how much information we were able to pack into two pages with the fun comic-strip format. If you don't remember it or never saw
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, many financial experts spoke about what is needed to unleash the lenders, keep the books simple, and bring on more rules to improve the financial markets and avoid another global financial crisis. Is nationalizing global banks the answer, as some experts have
This morning, the good folks in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania heard from Punxsutawney Phil that he did see his shadow. What they don't know is that he used SAS to predict whether his shadow was there or not. For years, Phil has wandered out into the freezing cold to determine if winter