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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Will the world get the America it needs?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Michael Mandelbaum posed the question in the title of this post to a capacity crowd at last week's SAS Government Leadership Summit. Author of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, Mandelbaum gave the opening keynote address. Mandelbaum posited
![Keith Collins goes in-depth on big data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/IOT-1-702x336.png)
In the video below, you'll hear a great explanation from SAS CTO Keith Collins about the benefits of high-performance analytics, and why it's not just about getting answers faster. He also tells interviewer Karin Reed which SAS procedures are being optimized for high-performance analytics and provides up dates about big
![Building a culture of analytics one employee at a time](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataMgt-1-702x336.png)
SAS customers are both bright and generous. Recently, I met several who gathered to discuss SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Model Manager predictive analytics and data mining software. Hiring the best I loved listening to their discussion on what they look for and how they find the people who will
![Best practice #8: Develop in-house IT expertise](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
It is exciting and overwhelming when you first get new software for information management, reporting and analytics. This is especially true once your users first get their hands on the data and new reports. I recall first hand when I was a system engineer and had been with SAS for
![Words have power: Using the words "fraud" and "prediction"](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-1-702x336.png)
Fraud detection presents myriad analytical challenges: gathering sufficient known cases to make typical modeling techniques possible, gathering inputs from disparate data sources, and combining expert knowledge from investigators with findings to be gleaned from the data in an efficient way. Of course, analysts can fall into the trap of thinking
![Willie goes to the White House](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2012/05/270-702x336.jpg)
Ed says the great jobs of tomorrow will be in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. There’s a strong demand for graduates in those fields. That’s why it is critically important for all of our young people to get a solid education in math and science. Kareem Dale,