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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Why organizational maturity matters](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/10/Pillars1-702x336.jpg)
I wrote “Business Transformation” to guide leaders through a journey to transform their organizations. I included methodologies and examples gathered throughout my 29-year consulting career to assist them. Every executive and leader focuses on how to use resources to produce value. Of course, value can be defined in many terms
![Exploring athletic data down to the individual stroke](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/10/British-Rowing-at-SAS_19358-702x336.jpg)
Since my opening blog post about our new partnership with British Rowing and the GB Rowing Team, I’ve had a deep dive into their data, and we’re now close to our first key milestone – having all the data about a rower in a single location, so we can then
![Is the SAS Embedded Process a secret sauce for Hadoop?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/10/The-analytics-lifecycle_hadoop-483x336.jpg)
SAS has been developing "secret sauce" technology for more than 38 years. Whether it has to do with being platform independent, processing in-database, running across a grid, or analyzing data in-memory like our SAS LASR Analytic Server or our High Performance Analytics offerings, secret sauce makes everything taste or, in
![Hadoop: the game-changer in banking](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/10/185263688-702x336.jpg)
At most banks, data is stored in separate databases and data warehouses. Customer data is stored in marketing databases, fraud analyses are done on transactional data, and risk data is stored in risk data warehouses. Oftentimes even liquidity, credit, market, and operational risk data is stored separately as well. Bringing
![Every day is Customer Experience Day at SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/10/cultureinnovationJHG-500x336.jpg)
It’s no secret that SAS is a constant among Best Places to Work lists all over the world. But, what many may not realize is the connection between creating a company employees want to work for, and creating a company customers want to work with.
![Hadoop market growth: Breaking out of the Silicon Valley bubble large bubble against blue sky](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/10/5007744674_1a109f1dea_z-640x336.jpg)
In the first installment of this series on Hadoop, I shared a little of Hadoop's genesis, framing it within four phases of connectivity that we are moving through. I also stated my belief that Hadoop has already arrived in the mainstream, and we are currently moving from phases three of connecting people to phase four