Typically, business success results from a series of decisions and strategies that continue to move the business forward and build on past successes. Choosing SAS 9.4 helps you build on past success and supports your strategy for the future. How? I'll give you four reasons, from four perspectives. SAS 9.4: Simplifies
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Out of all the questions that we asked in our "Ask the statistician" blog and video series at the recent SAS Global Forum, I was most intrigued to hear the responses to this next question: What are the next big trends in statistics? Watch the latest video in the series
A few weeks back I went shopping for a new car. The experience left me wondering why many dealerships—perhaps the stereotypical small or mid-size US business—were so far behind in use of technology. I was surprised at how little use of tech was in place. At about the same time
Customers continue to validate the value of the joint alliance strategy of Teradata and SAS, and for good reason.
At SAS, we’ve always been smart about using our own software internally to support our business goals. For an example, read Chris Hemedinger’s post about the SAS program he designed to measure blog activity - and one decision the blog team made as a result. Or, you can read several
Perhaps I should have titled this post, "Riddle me this Batman..." Bam! Zap! etc.... now back to our regular scheduled blog post, where we explore the many lessons that can be learned from one industry to the next. Let's start with one of the easier comparisons: How is an
Accessing computing resources must feel like playing Monopoly in some organizations. If you can out-game fellow analysts or have more-than-a-little luck, you get your report when you need it. If you can’t, you don’t pass Go and have to wait your next turn in the queue . . . whenever
If the latest issue of sascom magazine has a theme, it’s preparation. The size and speed of your data is growing exponentially, the world of analytics is changing – and we want our readers to be ahead of the curve. That’s why we’re continuing to explore data visualization. Visualizations are
SAS 9.4, our newest platform release offers product enhancements galore, more deployment choices than ever, simplified administration and more. In this post, we take a look at SAS 9.4 deployment options. Now you can choose the best way to provide the world’s most powerful analytics to your users. Is a
As professional golfers tune up for the SAS Championship, I had the unique opportunity to sit down for a chat with Big Data. Maybe you've seen him on TV or in your corporate board room. He’s the guy with answers to many of the most complex issues faced by business
Are you uncomfortable with analytics? Do you know someone who is? One reason might be that they think of predictive analytics as magic rather than science or fact based. Good magic amazes people and so do good analytic based reports and decisions. Being able to predict what product or service
John Taylor likes computer data the way he likes big trout: here, there or anywhere. Which is perfectly natural, considering he’s the data analyst in the Inland Fisheries Department at Texas Parks and Wildlife. Taylor describes his unspoiled enthusiasm for big data and big fish in this sendup of Dr. Seuss that
There is lot of talk at the moment about data analysts or data scientists, but what do you need to be successful in these roles and what type of person do you need to be? The stereotypical view is that we’re ‘a bit nerdy’ and ‘walk around in white coats’,
Our perceptions can impact others and influence decisions. As a result, I always like to understand each customer's perception of what SAS is and what we do. There is no right or wrong answer to this question, however the response provides me with a chance to listen to our customers.
Industry-changing dynamics like mobility, smart products, social media and embedded computing put a premium on big data and the insights you can gain from organizational data. As a result, the opportunity to be disruptive with analytics has never been greater. Yet, when it comes to making analytics work, not all organizations
Would you like to know how some of the largest and most successful organizations are getting value from their big data? Tune in to AllAnalytics.com today at 2 p.m. ET (US) to find out. In their recently published research report, Big Data in Big Companies, renowned analytics thought-leader Tom Davenport
We know that it is a struggle to gain insight from massive amounts of data. Businesses need the value that analytics provide and want to include analytics in day-to-day decision making in order to gain insights and improve business performance. Data visualization and reporting are like the “easy button” for businesses
We’ve all seen those climactic movie scenes, where the hero of the story figures out how to “save the day” with only minutes to spare. Imagine a rogue CIA operative dashing into a situation room with the last-ditch information that averts nuclear war – and, as always, succeeding. Nothing says
In the first two posts in this series, Seeing the Light: How SMBs are Using Data and Insights to Get Ahead, I shared the motivations that prompted three SMBs to replace spreadsheets and intuition with a more sophisticated, analytics-driven approach to run their businesses. In the second, I discussed the
“How can we begin to make sense of the unstructured data, when we still don’t make the most of our structured data?” said the exasperated senior manager from a large retail firm. One of the great pleasures of my job is the relationship with students that continues after class has
If, like me, you have children who are old enough to vote, you may have noticed what I have noticed. They’re different. They seem permanently connected to their friends via social media, rarely watch the news or read a paper, and they have many transient interests that seem to follow
The path to innovation isn’t canned. It’s not formulaic. It involves taking calculated risks and (as much as I hate this cliché) out-of-the-box thinking. It involves creativity and the eagerness to explore ideas. Notice I didn’t say new ideas. Sometimes innovation is more about re-purposing or reworking old ideas into
Engineers who implement process control can use analytics to think outside the of box. Better yet, they can use analytics to help solve the issues and risks associated with being inside the box or outside the box in the first place. Read on to learn what box I'm referring to
In the first post in this series, Seeing the Light: How SMBs are Using Data and Insights to Get Ahead, I shared the motivations that prompted three SMBs (BGF Industries, Oberweis Dairy and Twiddy & Company) to replace spreadsheets and intuition with a more sophisticated, analytics-driven approach. But what factors
David Loshin (@davidloshin) on using analytics to pinpoint your best customers.
Imagine a business offering a multitude of products and services that seemingly have little relationship to one another, and all are supported by different data systems. This is the plight of local governments. The products and services produced and managed by local governments range from utilities, solid waste and recycling to parks
Big data. It’s still the hottest topic going – and making it pay off continues to be a challenge. According to a recent IDG Research survey, organizations’ biggest big data headaches are: 1) lack of skills needed to run analysis and 2) difficulty in making data available to users for
Auf dem SAS Forum 2013 am 11. und 12. September in Mannheim erleben Sie Analytics live – an 2 Tagen mit mehr als 70 Beiträgen und zahlreichen Gelegenheiten zum persönlichen Austausch mit Branchenkennern, Fachspezialisten und Analytics-Experten.
Do we ever really get pricing right? Sometimes we do, and some of those times are actually on purpose, but it takes a lot of upstream activities to go right in order for pricing to be optimal as well. Too often pricing is that last variable at our disposal when
In Amsterdam, harnessing the power of the (data) tide With more than 100 km of canals and 1,500 bridges, dikes and dams, Amsterdam has long been in tune with the tides. Today, as an economic tide tugs at Europe and many regions, organizations are coping with a flood of data