Every lottery ticket printed is a forecast – and when that forecast is wrong, the consequences are immediate. “If the ticket’s there, you buy it. If the display is empty, you walk away,” said Kyle Gray, Insights and Analytics Manager at the North Carolina Education Lottery. “That moment is forecasting.”
For small to medium businesses, the pressure to innovate is real, but so are the constraints. Teams are expected to deliver more with the same resources, manual processes and limited budgets. Modernizing analytic workflows often feels out of reach, especially without enterprise-level staff or funding. But change is coming fast.
Over the past two decades, managed services have increasingly shaped how organizations deploy and operate enterprise software. As cloud adoption, regulatory expectations and data volumes have increased, companies have leaned on partners to help them scale securely while maintaining performance and compliance. SAS® Managed Cloud Services (MCS) has evolved to
