Big data is one of the hottest topics in business. When you hear those words - BIG Data - you almost surely think of:

• HUGE financial services firms scoring terabytes of historical and current risk data
• GLOBAL telecommunications companies mining petabytes of structured and unstructured data
• INTERNATIONAL retailers repricing hundreds of thousands of products across hundreds of locations

But big data issues can be a problem for businesses of all sizes and all kinds - including small and medium-sized companies.  The definition for big data is - When volume, velocity and variety of data exceed an organization's storage or compute capacity for accurate and timely decision making.

Check out this innovative use of SAS in the health care industry - now that's BIG DATA!  How are you handling big data in your organization?

Here are a couple of SAS Global Forum 2011 papers about using SAS in the Disease Management field:

• Using SAS® to Identify and Stratify Members of Disease Management Programs at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization

• Taking Disease and Health Management Analytics into the Next Generation