As SAS celebrates its 50th anniversary, one question naturally follows: What comes next? Few groups have a better vantage point than the partners who work alongside SAS every day. They help organizations apply analytics and AI across industries, giving them a front row seat to the challenges customers are trying
Fifty years later, Barry Merrill still remembers where it all started. In an interview, Merrill reflected on discovering SAS through a small notice in Datamation magazine. At the time, the software was new, largely unknown and available for $100. "North Carolina State University's statistics department announces the availability of the
When I joined SAS in 1997, most analytics workflows still revolved around desktops, batch processing and highly technical users. Later that same year, SAS introduced SAS/IntrNet – a technology that helped bring SAS analytics into the growing world of web applications. At the time, it felt like a major shift
