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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Formula One benefits from fast data and big data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/09/4803702931_bba6994216_z-640x336.jpg)
Imagine you are the race director for a Formula One car. Decisions must be made within seconds, sometimes in the blink of an eye. When speed is of utmost importance, it is necessary for race engineers to have all relevant race data at their fingertips. Instead of having a couple of
![Your data is in Hadoop, so what?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataMgt-1-702x336.png)
Okay, let's say your data is in Hadoop. The distributed, open source framework is configured as it should be across low-cost servers and your data is sitting in those clusters. It's been a meaningful effort to get to this point but how does it benefit your organization? If it's not doing something
![Lookout! Ed has stars in his eyes](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/SAS-Culture-1-702x336.png)
Back in January, I told you about this amazing project that Ed was working on, and now it’s done. Get ready. It’s a textbook—a science textbook about the stars. “Say what?” you might be thinking. Well, trust me. This book is cool! Ed has been teaming with the Space Telescope
![Data as the most critical asset](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/09/ShatteredScreen-702x336.jpg)
Writing my previous post about digital banks got me thinking about the widespread use of analytics. In his book Digital Bank, Chris Skinner states that data should be seen as the most critical asset for digital banks. Actually, this holds true for almost every company nowadays. If you don’t have data of
![The new deal handshake: Customer loyalty and data privacy basics Peter Hedberg head shot](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/08/684.jpg)
What is true customer loyalty? And how can you achieve it without compromising data privacy? According to Peter Hedberg, a senior customer relationship manager with SAS, true customer loyalty programs put the customer at the center of the relationship and use data in ways that are designed to please - not panic
![Prince William and other emergency workers can benefit from analytics Prince William at the Controls of a Search and Rescue Seaking Helicopter](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/08/5011647505_720fc4fbe6_z-640x336.jpg)
Did you hear that Prince William is getting a new job? Next year, he’ll fly emergency helicopters for the East Anglian Air Ambulance. The prince, who’ll donate his salary to charity, called his new gig “one of the finest forms of public service.” The Duke of Cambridge won’t get any