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Emails – it’s hard to imagine that there used to be a time people worked without them – at least in our industry. When I started at SAS in 1996 the amount of business email I received on a particular day was almost less than the amount of spam mails
![So many questions: Analytic centers of excellence provide answers](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2011/08/Communication1-702x336.jpg)
August was a busy month for our SAS Text Analytics team, but I was very pleased to get the invite to attend this year’s CIO 100 Conference hosted by Maryfran Johnson, Editor-in-Chief of CIO Magazine. As Master of Ceremonies, she inspired lively discussions and shared insights on IT leadership, technology
![China Guangfa Bank answers the big data call](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Dr. Yachen Lin, Chief Risk Officer of China Guangfa Bank Credit Card Center (CGB), was interviewed while at the 2011 Premier Business Leadership Series in Singapore. He discussed the analytics culture at CGB - explaining how CGB uses analytics to know its customers and manage risk. There are only 14
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Nobody wants to rub people the wrong way. We've all done it, even if word never got back to us that it happened. Having ample first-hand experience with this, I deeply appreciated the opening keynote by MIT's Michael Schrage at the 2011 Disney Analytics & Optimization Summit. Schrage, research fellow
![Volvo Trucks: Quality and customer satisfaction are standard](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2011/08/Volvo-Warranty31-702x336.png)
Bengt Persson, the Senior Vice President of Quality and Tech Support, presented a session about driving quality across the globe during the 2011 Premier Business Leadership Series in Singapore. Persson told the story of how Volvo Trucks uses analytics and data flow to standardize and optimize warranty claims across Volvo’s
![Are we going into another recession?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2011/08/bizoutlookindex-624x336.jpg)
There is a lot of talk hither and yon about a “double-dip” recession. Not at all uncommon when you consider past recessions. Let’s take a look at some data from the June 2011 survey of senior financial executives from the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI to dig into the double dip theories. MAPI