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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Cooking up new ways to analyze your data with SAS 9.3](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-1-702x336.png)
There are many things that I enjoy in life, but cooking and analytics are two of the things that excite me the most. In my free time, one of my favorite things to do is experiment in the kitchen to try to come up with something new and different to
![The challenges that come with perfect capitalism – and how to overcome them](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
In a business environment that is increasingly global and technological, many businesses are finding themselves subject to two significant challenges: If your product or service can be “made,” it can be copied and someone else can make it cheaper and/or better. Customers are becoming ever more knowledgeable about products, vendors
![Are we too close to customers? davis-goodnight.jpg](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/02/davis-goodnight.jpg)
At SAS, our marketing and R&D divisions work together with customers to develop software products. Droves of our developers attend SAS users group conferences to talk to customers, demo new technologies and get user feedback. We have three customer advisory boards who tell us how they’re using SAS products, what
![The fundamentals of data visualization: The redux](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataVisualization-1-702x336.png)
It's always important to remember your fundamentals. Sort of like a basketball player who practices lay-ups and free throws for hours on end, you need the fundamentals in the midst of the game. Having the skills or knowledge in the heat of the moment - when it counts - is
![The journey to high-performance analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-1-702x336.png)
Rome was not built in a day. Similarly, high-performance analytics is a product of many cumulative architectural, computational and analytical advances. The ability to solve complex business problems by applying algorithms from multiple disciplines to increasingly large volumes of data of all types - both structured and unstructured - is
![How to become more agile with mobile and visualization technologies](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Agility. I've been giving a lot of thought to the term while here in San Diego for the TDWI World Conference. "Evolving Your Agile BI Environment" is the theme of this year's event and "agility" has definitely been embedded in the conversations I have had with customers the past few