My coworkers Dave Thomas and Waynette Tubbs hosted the Inside SAS Global Forum video series this year, which offers a fun, informal roving reporter type of look at the conference. Individually, they interviewed SAS executives, conference organizers and SAS customers, but they made such a great pair in front of
A number of the sessions at today's SAS Global Forum Executive Conference included discussions about how IT and business leaders can best collaborate on business analytics projects, or how analysts and business decision makers can best work together. In one panel I attended, "Retail and Manufacturing Analytics: Driving Business-Building Insights
I am typing this blog shortly after the closing session of SAS Global Forum Executive Conference in Seattle and I am going to admit that I've found the whole conference experience amazing - such a privilege for me to be able to attend. Especially as being from the 'international' community
From posterous photos of Opening Session to the New York Times Bits Blog, the first blog posts about SAS Global Forum are starting to show up online. Writing on the Bits Blog, Steve Lohr says: Analysts who have looked at the new offering – and tried it out – are
In a recent Datamation article, "Business Intelligence Software and Predictive Analytics," Jeff Vance asks, "What exactly is predictive analytics?" His answer, in part: "Take traditional business intelligence, combine it with data mining and add on statistical analysis and you have predictive analytics. Math geeks will squabble over the nuances, say,
At last week's SAS Global Forum, I sat down for a few minutes with Stephan Chase, Vice President of Customer Knowledge at Marriott Hotels. Chase's team provides the analytics and predictive modeling to the marketing team within the Marriott Rewards business unit. I asked him to elaborate on an earlier
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was this morning’s keynote presenter at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference in Washington, DC. The theme of the conference is, “Leading with Confidence in an Era of Uncertainty,” which can certainly apply to the commercial sector as well as political leaders. She
At SmartDataCollective, Sandro Saitta has a list of data miners on Twitter. Here at SAS, we're planning to tag all SAS Global Forum tweets with the hashtag #sgf09. This will make it easy for anyone to follow conversations about SAS Global Forum now and during the conference by searching for
Hi everyone. I am fairly new to SAS as a Program Development Specialist with the Executive and User Events Department. I had the great opportunity last year to work on SAS Global Forum 2008, which was a wonderful success with over 3,700 attendees in San Antonio. This year I again
Not to belabor the topic of SAS Global Forum, but it is still on the minds -- and feet, judging from my blisters -- of many of us who attended last week. What I find most invigorating about the experience is the opportunity to put faces and voices with the
