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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Pay nothing, gain everything: SAS introduces no-cost software for higher education](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/06/1402345055330.png)
Last month, SAS launched our new no-cost software for higher education teaching, learning and research – SAS® University Edition. Available to students, professors, academic researchers and lifelong learners, SAS University Edition provides local access to BASE SAS®, SAS/STAT® software, SAS® Studio, SAS/IML® software and SAS/ACCESS® Interface to PC Files. SAS University Edition
![Series: BCBS 239 – Principle 11](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/04/Principle-11.png)
Principle 11: Risk management reports should be distributed to the relevant parties while ensuring confidentiality is maintained. Early in 2013, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued guidelines for banks regarding risk data aggregation and reporting. Known collectively as BCBC 239, these principles were designed to ensure that banks
![Analytics should have a starring role in Hollywood Analytics Hollywood Star](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/06/AnalyticsStar-560x336.jpg)
From managing excess DVD inventory to optimizing digital distribution channels, Hollywood’s supply chain transformation in the last decade has been massive. Knowing this background, and having spent a good part of my life surrounded by the entertainment industry, I was intrigued and inspired by the recent Entertainment Supply Chain Academy
“Technological innovation is no longer a choice: it is an imperative.” So said Scott O’Malia, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, about trade surveillance during his keynote address at the recent SAS-sponsored New Risk in Energy 2014 conference in Houston. He was attempting, as he has before, to spur
![We’ve come a long way, baby!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/06/HMU_shoot_sm.jpg)
How Internal Communications got into the video business. Everybody loves video. Well, maybe not everybody, but judging by the popularity of YouTube and the ubiquity of Web videos in general, I’d have to conclude that a mighty large chunk of the population loves – or at least likes – it.
![A must-read for petroleum professionals](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/06/66509_thumbnailcover.jpg)
Oil companies are being forced to explore in geologically complex and remote areas to exploit more unconventional hydrocarbon deposits. New engineering technology has pushed the envelope of previous upstream experience. No guidebook existed on how computing methodologies can contribute to E&P performance at reduced risk. Until now. A new book