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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Good question: What I wish I had known back then…](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-1-702x336.png)
I recently gave a talk to a group of engineering students at Duke University, located just down the road from our headquarters in North Carolina. A couple of days later, one of the students sent me an email asking a very good question: which skills should I build up to
![Sort through the high-performance noise](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataMgt-1-702x336.png)
There's recently been a lot of discussion and release of products around high-performance analytic architectures and in-memory computing. It seems like every vendor in the BI and analytics realm has jumped on this bandwagon. Is it all the same stuff? Or are there signficant differences? No question in our minds, the
![The value of high-performance analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Like Vince said a few days ago, you don’t have to be Goliath to see how the intersection of big data and high performance analytics creates competitive advantage. Let’s also be realistic though: compared to someone like Walmart, pretty much everyone’s David! While Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank may not be the largest companies by global measures, they’re still
![Best practice #4: Manage expectations proactively](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
So far in our journey of the best practices for information management, reporting and analytics, we have learned about the importance of securing executive sponsorship, having a solid understanding of stakeholders needs and integrating all the data needed to make this happen. Now that stakeholders realize that you know their
![Judgment calls & wake up calls](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
What's almost as good as being in sunny Orlando to hear your favorite business leaders speak in person? Watching them from the comfort of your own office chair, of course, but with the ability to still ask questions and participate in live polls, as if you were on site. You are
![Who will help me save Datapolis?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2012/04/healthcareimage1.jpg)
The men, women and children of Datapolis are falling ill at an alarming rate, forcing me to turn my attention away from my ongoing battle with Obscuro and toward helping the Datapolis Council of Elders distribute its medicine before it is too late. As it happens, just as we most