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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Series: BCBS 239 - Principle 4](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/03/Principle-11.png)
Principle 4: Completeness – A bank should be able to capture and aggregate all material risk data across the banking group. Data should be available by business line, legal entity, asset type, industry, region and other groupings, as relevant for the risk in question, that permit identifying and reporting risk
![Using virtual reality to understand big data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataVisualization-1-702x336.png)
What if virtual reality technology allowed you to immerse yourself in big data? That could be your future – and sooner than you think. It happened in August 2013 at the University of Washington: the first direct brain-to-brain communication, with one researcher controlling another researcher’s brain over Skype. Maybe in
![Connecting the dots between higher education and IT](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataVisualization-1-702x336.png)
In our hyper-connected world, information technology plays a key role in nearly every field and industry. Higher education is no exception, and that’s where EDUCAUSE comes in. This non-profit association works to advance higher education through the use of information technology. One of the primary ways EDUCAUSE achieves its goal
![SAS Global Forum 2014: Spotlight on IT and SAS Administrators](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2013/08/IT_whisperer.jpg)
I’ve been to a fair number of SAS User Group International (SUGI) and SAS Global Forum conferences over the years, but I don’t think I’ve been to one as productive, well-organized and fun as this year’s conference in Washington DC. Part of what made the conference very relevant for many
![Agility and the Analytic Sandbox](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/04/Sandbox1-702x336.png)
Analytics gives us not just the ability but the imperative to separate our planning activities into two distinct segments – detailed planning that leads to budgets in support of execution, and high-level, analytic-enabled business/scenario planning. My critique of Control Towers in this blog last time led me not only to
![Series: BCBS 239 – Principle 3](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/04/Principle-3-702x336.png)
Principle 3: Accuracy and Integrity – A bank should be able to generate accurate and reliable risk data to meet normal and stress/crisis reporting accuracy requirements. Data should be aggregated on a largely automated basis so as to minimize the probability of errors. It seems logical that banks would want