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Greg HeidrickJanuary 14, 2019 0

IoT applications in retail: the supply chain

This Is the latest installment in my series of posts dedicated to describing IoT applications in retail. Why do I want retailers to move more quickly in their widescale adoption of IoT in the coming year? Because I'm confident they'll see results, and these use cases help explain how. As

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Retail

Analytics

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Cameron McLauchlinJanuary 7, 2019 0

Health care convergence gets me up in the morning. Yes, really.

I love my job, but I am not a morning person so I need a bit of inspiration to get out of bed. I’ve been a marketer for more than 15 years, and that inspiration has never been easier to find than since I joined SAS as an industry marketer

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things | Machine Learning

Bryan SaundersDecember 20, 2018 0

AIoT helps move transportation forward

By now, we're all aware of the seismic shift occurring across industries as a result of the Internet of Things. But do we all see the changes in the same light? From where I sit, there's still a wide gap in viewpoints and perspectives. In its simplest form, we often

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Insurance | Travel

Analytics | Data for Good | Work & Life at SAS

Marcia Elaine WalkerDecember 14, 2018 2

Rule number one: follow your heart

Singer-songwriter David Wilcox kept me out of prison. That’s not a country song gone bad – it’s a real-life experience. Almost two decades ago, I attended a David Wilcox concert in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. His songs have always hooked my heart, and one in particular caught my attention that

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics

David PopeDecember 7, 2018 0

Grandma got over run by a neural network

Once again, I have chosen to take a traditional Christmas song or carol and create a fun technology-related version of it to share with you. This is the fifth year and the eighth song, so I hope you enjoy your 2018 holiday song. Grandma got over run by a neural

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Analytics

Leo SadovyDecember 6, 2018 0

Analytics you can use: Manage your queue for better customer service

There is one equation every retail store, call center, traffic, airport or hospital manager should know by heart. No, it’s not E = mc². The one I had in mind is this: W = 1 / (μ – λ) It may not look like much, but it can mean the

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Analytics

Georgia MarianiDecember 3, 2018 0

Two professors’ perspectives on SAS and the future of analytics

In this blog series, we’ve spoken directly to professors to find out why it’s so important to teach analytics, their advice for students, and to learn how they create interest in analytics programs at their universities. For this third and final post, we’ll hear how SAS has played a role

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Greg HeidrickNovember 29, 2018 0

Will 2019 be the year of an IoT epiphany in retail?

Whether you're reading industry articles about smart tags or analyst reports about inventory tracking, you've probably noticed an uptick in coverage on the adoption of IoT (and RFID) in retail. Since I've been following these topics for awhile, I've decided to dedicate a series of posts on the ways IoT can be used

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Retail

Analytics

Greg HorneNovember 28, 2018 0

Is telemedicine the future of medicine?

I first used telemedicine (the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology) in the mid-90s when I was working as an on-call CT technician in the UK. We used a modem to transfer head trauma scans to the local neurology center for assessment so that the

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