SAS on a video game system? I called it.

Back in 2009, I announced that SAS was developing a version of its business analytics platform for use on the Nintendo Wii. I think I gave our legal department a heart attack with this news, until they realized that I had posted it on April 1.

At SAS Global Forum 2012, the "joke" came to life, and it's now a more serious endeavor. Video game technologies (and other consumer electronic products) are changing the way that people expect to interact with their digital content -- not just for entertainment, but also for business. At the conference during the SAS Tech Talk webcast, I interviewed SAS BI developer Mike Barnhart. Mike demonstrated the experimental work that he's doing with Microsoft Kinect, as well as with the large-format touchscreen table called Microsoft Surface.

Check out the video below. What do you think? Are you ready to touch and feel your business applications, and are they going to make you get up and move?

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