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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![From Customer Intelligence to Penn & Teller-gence: amazing secrets revealed at M2009, The Series – Las Vegas](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1-702x336.png)
I’m jumping in here to keep the blog balls in the air. With The Premiere Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas in full swing, there’s so much great material to share. We’ve tasked communication team members at the event with capturing and sharing as much of the great insights, advice
![The great debate: analytics vs. instinct](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Blink, and Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and author of Competing on Analytics, engaged this morning in a debate on a live Webcast onsite at The Premier Business Leadership Series at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. The theme of the debate is analytics vs. instinct:
![A hit, a very palpable hit](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/DataMgt-1-702x336.png)
In Shakespeare’s tragedy of Hamlet, the sycophantic Osric, who witnessed Hamlet’s “very palpable hit” during a fencing duel, forces Claudius to adopt another strategy to achieve his goal, Hamlet’s murder. I see this analogy playing out more and more frequently among the International oil companies (IOCs) and National oil companies
![10 signs you might need analytics (thanks to Steve Bennett)](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Like any good SAS employee, I monitor the social Web for conversations about analytics. Not that I’m an analytics geek – far from it. As a lifelong writer and marcomms veteran, the quants view me as about as comprehensible (and as substantial) as navel lint. It’s for precisely that reason
![Analytics is still our middle name](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Big news in our industry this morning: IBM plans to buy analytics software vendor SPSS for $1.2 billion. In one sense, I'm sad to see SPSS disappearing into the large IBM stack. Besides SAS, SPSS was one of the last independent analytic software companies. A colleague says, “It’s the end
![Gain insights to manage your Server Virtualization footprint in useful manner](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Almost every other article or blog or survey I read nowadays discusses virtualization and cloud computing topics. Why? Partly because IT operations and infrastructure professionals are facing difficulty monitoring and managing computing resources in a distributed environment. They have to ensure that capacity is always available to be assigned as