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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Big data is coming to town!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/10/shutterstock_157122776-702x336.jpg)
You’d better watch YouTube, you’d better not cry You’d better not post, I’m telling you why Big data is coming to town He’s making many lists (and selling them too), he’s writing it twice (for redundancy’s sake), He’s gonna find out whose naughty or nice Big data is coming to town
![Avoid bloating your supply chain](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/12/supply_chain_improvement_21.jpg)
Over the course of my career as industrial engineer turned supply chain planning advocate I've had the opportunity to work hands-on with many manufacturing and supply chain planning solutions. This has included solutions offered commercially by the usual suspects of ERP and post-SCM consolidation supply chain solution providers. Most of these
![Introducing the Internet of Turkeys](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/12/IoTurkey2.jpg)
When we talk about the Internet of Things and “analytics at the edge,” we’re talking about modeling data as close as possible to the device – not far away in some warehouse or data storage appliance. So, generally, the edge is anything with a sensor that is transmitting data: an
![60 students and everyone is learning? Only with the Hour of Code](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/12/images.jpeg)
What would it take for you to keep 60 students interested and on task in a classroom for an entire hour? Some kind of magic or trickery? Maybe a bribe? Nope, all you need is an Hour of Code lesson plan, and you’ll be teaching computer programming to a classroom
![Sensorless Industrial IoT improves quality Manufacturing Quality](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2015/12/mfg_tablet_quality_lowres-458x336.jpg)
Recently I toured a manufacturing plant floor for a company that builds construction materials related to energy. I find a number issues people face in production of which the most common are around asset efficiency, product quality, and safety. This manufacturer like most had similar concerns on all those areas
![The Connected Traveler](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1-702x336.png)
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the 2015 EyeforTravel Connected Traveller Conference. Based on the spelling of the word “traveller” which my American version of MS Word continuously wants to autocorrect, you can correctly assume the conference was hosted in London. During the conference, one phrase