Fraud & Security Intelligence

Caitlin EstradaDecember 18, 2025 0

Designing financial crime systems that work for people, not just models

Technology advances fast, but meaningful innovation still comes down to one truth: systems work best when they’re built around people. In risk, fraud, and compliance (RFC), this means designing tools that understand intent, reduce friction for investigators, protect sensitive data, and adapt as fraud evolves. The Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC)

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Innovation | SAS Events

Vrushali SawantDecember 17, 2025 0

What does AI built right look like? Five SAS Hackathon teams answer that question

Here's what separates responsible innovators from everyone else: they ask uncomfortable questions before they build, not after. At the SAS Hackathon, five teams proved this in practice. Working under real-world constraints and problem statements, they didn’t start with frameworks or compliance checklists. They started with three simple questions: For what

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

William NadolskiDecember 17, 2025 0

The rise of small language models for information extraction

Small language models like GLiNER provide an efficient, deterministic, and flexible solution for named entity recognition, bridging the gap between traditional NLP and large language models for enterprise information extraction.

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Data for Good | Predictions

Ian KramerDecember 16, 2025 0

Revitalizing public health surveillance systems with AI

As we wrap up 2025, subject matter experts across SAS have been thinking ahead to 2026 and how we might see AI evolve in the public sector over the next 12 months. Recently, we released a compilation of public sector AI predictions, including mine: AI-led extraction and entity resolution will

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics

Jane HowellDecember 15, 2025 0

How AIoT is powering the future of energy

As energy systems become more distributed, digital and dynamic, utilities are increasingly turning to AI and IoT to help modernize operations, improve reliability and accelerate decarbonization. Yet according to the IDC InfoBrief, How AIoT Is Reshaping Industrial Efficiency, Security, and Decision-Making, more than half of AIoT initiatives are still stuck in

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Energy & Utilities

Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinDecember 15, 2025 0

The length of the string of lights that you need to wrap around your Christmas tree

Rockin' around the Christmas tree, Have a happy holiday      – Brenda Lee An internet search for "How many lights do I need for my Christmas tree," returns many opinions. A popular answer is that you need "one strand of lights for each foot of your tree." Another common answer is

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Marketing | Predictions

Jenn ChaseDecember 11, 2025 0

Leading with trust: The new playbook for AI-driven marketing

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant horizon – it’s here, reshaping how marketers engage with audiences and create experiences that last. Over the past year, generative AI (GenAI) has become the new status quo. More than 85% of marketing teams worldwide are already using it, with 93% having dedicated

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Analytics

Margarita MersiyanovaDecember 8, 2025 0

How does synthetic data accelerate clinical trials?

Clinical trials are the most costly, time-consuming, and heavily regulated stages in drug development, often costing hundreds of millions of dollars and sometimes exceeding a billion dollars. Every month of delay cuts into the patent-protected window that determines a drug’s commercial viability, with companies losing tens of millions of dollars

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Artificial Intelligence

Ally MillerDecember 4, 2025 0

Responsible innovator spotlight: Sierra Shell on designing responsibly

Responsible innovation is more than a framework. It’s the discipline of building technology that earns trust. As AI becomes more capable and deeply embedded in business workflows, organizations must ensure that every decision, design choice, and workflow supports accountability, transparency and human-centered outcomes. The Responsible Innovator Spotlight is a new

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Artificial Intelligence | Predictions

Tom SaboDecember 3, 2025 0

Using LLMs to create synthetic data and tangible progress in the public sector

People are starting to compile resolutions for the new year, focusing on evolving their own habits and goals. At SAS, we’ve also looked toward 2026 to gather predictions on how AI in the public sector might evolve over the next 12 months.  Prediction: By 2026, governments will utilize large language

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Government

Fraud & Security Intelligence

Ginny InmanDecember 1, 2025 0

Reflecting on the birth of SAS Anti-Money Laundering

There are moments in your career that stay with you forever – not because they were carefully orchestrated – but because they were fueled by passion and a desire to make a real difference. For R&D Senior Director, Dan Tamburro, one of those moments came shortly after the terrorist attacks

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Internet of Things | Predictions

Caslee SimsDecember 1, 2025 0

Bringing GenAI to industrial IoT: Why context is the missing piece

As companies rush to adopt GenAI, one question keeps coming up: How do we make all this intelligence useful on the plant floor? SAS Vice President of IoT Jason Mann and Jobi George, Global VP of Business Development at Weaviate, discussed how vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are enabling manufacturers

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Manufacturing

Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinDecember 1, 2025 0

Two debugging tips for SAS IML programmers

Recently, a colleague struggled to find the source of a run-time error happening somewhere within a very large library of SAS IML function modules. Since the error happens at run time, I told my colleague about how to find the location of a run time error by reading the traceback

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Artificial Intelligence

Ben NibbelinkNovember 25, 2025 0

The strategic imperative: Governance for retrieval-augmented generation

Generative AI (GenAI) has seemingly permanently shifted the trajectory of enterprise strategy, offering a way to transform massive amounts of unstructured data into actionable, contextual intelligence. However, as organizations move past pilot projects and scale this technology, they run headfirst into a widening gap between the potential of AI and

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation | Predictions

Iain BrownNovember 24, 2025 0

The year of the AI audit: When the fines start to bite

For years, “responsible AI” has lived comfortably as a corporate promise, a slide in a presentation, a talking point at a conference. But as the EU AI Act phases into force, that comfort is rapidly eroding. The regulation officially entered into force on August 1, 2024, but its obligations will

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Fraud & Security Intelligence | Predictions

Anna LykourinaNovember 21, 2025 0

The future of trust: AI is powering a new era in banking fraud detection

Digital banking has made convenience the norm, but it’s also made fraud inevitable. The accelerating pace of digital transactions – real-time payments, mobile banking, embedded finance – creates new opportunities for innovation and opens the door to more sophisticated fraud. This is where AI steps in. Not just as a

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Banking

Analytics | Data Management

Jarno LindqvistNovember 21, 2025 0

From chaos to chorus: How to conduct open data architectures with precision

Data is growing faster than most organizations’ ability to manage it. At the same time, business leaders are under pressure to deliver insights quickly and cost‑effectively. Traditional, closed systems often make that harder: they lock data into proprietary formats, increase duplication and limit flexibility. That’s why open data architecture is

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Artificial Intelligence

Colby HokeNovember 19, 2025 0

SAS contributes: OpenSearch

At SAS, we use and contribute to a wide range of open source projects. This series –  SAS Contributes – highlights how our teams give back to the open source community. In this installment, we’re focusing on OpenSearch. If you’ve ever sifted through thousands of system logs or product reviews to

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Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence

Mike TurnerNovember 18, 2025 0

Building modern marketing journeys

This is the fourth in a five-part blog post series that delves into modernizing marketing strategies through the integration of advanced marketing platforms. I had the pleasure of interviewing Shaun Memon of Munvo for this series, where we discuss a wide range of topics, from fragmented MarTech stacks, first-party data

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Fraud & Security Intelligence | Predictions

Jason DiNoviNovember 17, 2025 0

Agentic AI is the fix for communication breakdowns in health care payment integrity

One of the lesser talked-about issues large organizations face is the siloes that their various business units operate in. It’s a peculiar situation born from the specificity of tasks and objectives assigned to hyper-specialized teams within an enterprise. This separation of tasks inevitably leads to critical dependencies between teams. However,

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Artificial Intelligence

Kate ReganNovember 14, 2025 0

4 practical ways SAS and Intel help teams build and scale AI

If you’re building AI solutions today, you already know the stakes: faster decisions, trusted results and the ability to scale without blowing up your compute budget. What you may not always see is what’s happening under the hood to make that possible. That’s where strong technology partnerships matter. For more

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Artificial Intelligence | Predictions

Reggie TownsendNovember 13, 2025 0

Reflecting on responsible innovation: A defining moment

I had the privilege of joining the Dean’s Speaker Series at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, hosted in partnership with the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. My sincere thanks to Dean Mary Margaret Frank, the Kenan Institute team and all who made this event possible. It was an honor to share

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Fraud & Security Intelligence

Adam NeibergNovember 13, 2025 0

From target to trusted: fighting fraud with AI and analytics

No one is immune to identity theft – I know this firsthand. I was targeted while working at a financial institution where I was also a credit card customer. One day at work, I received an internal call from the bank’s customer contact center. I was informed that someone impersonating

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Banking

Fraud & Security Intelligence | Innovation

Trent SmithNovember 12, 2025 0

SAS fraud and financial crimes influencers: Join the conversation today

The rise of AI-powered fraud has supercharged criminals’ abilities to exploit systemic weaknesses and fool the most careful among us. Fortunately, as indicated by recent research from SAS and Coleman Parkes, the next few years will see major AI investments by government fraud fighters, giving hope that they will turn

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Fraud & Security Intelligence | Innovation | Predictions

Liz GoldbergNovember 11, 2025 0

Maturing public sector AI to combat fraud, waste and abuse

Across government programs worldwide, the stakes for managing fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) have never been higher. Every dollar lost to fraud is a dollar that could have been used to fund public health, education, or infrastructure. In a previous blog, I discussed the movement toward increasing public sector productivity

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Government

Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 10, 2025 0

Create a Halton sequence in SAS

A previous article shows how to convert a positive integer from base 10 to any other arbitrary base. For example, 15 (base 10) = 120 (base 3) because 15 = 1*32 + 2*31 + 0*30. Representing integers is probably familiar to many readers. But did you know that you can

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Fraud & Security Intelligence | Predictions

Jason DiNoviNovember 6, 2025 0

You’ve got scale: The past, present and future of phishing’s evolution

Hackers have a major milestone to celebrate this year as the phishing attack turns 30 years old. Phishing attacks can be traced back to the 90s, coinciding with the popularity of America Online (AOL). For those too young to remember, AOL was an early internet service provider that revolutionized the

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation | Predictions

Bill WisotskyNovember 5, 2025 0

Quantum computing: Standing at the edge of the next AI revolution

Imagine being dropped into a vast mountain range, such as the Adirondacks and being tasked with finding a specific lake. You are told that the lake is located at the lowest part of the mountain range and the only tools you are given are a compass and a method for

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Internet of Things | Predictions

Caslee SimsNovember 4, 2025 0

Predicting the future of AI and smarter manufacturing

The term “Internet of Things” has been around for over a decade, but the conversation between SAS Vice President of IoT Jason Mann and Quasar CEO Edouard Alligand shows that the real transformation is only just beginning. The two explored how IoT is moving beyond reactive monitoring toward predictive analytics

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Artificial Intelligence | Predictions

Franklin ManchesterNovember 3, 2025 0

What’s next after zero-click search? It’s agentic

Recently, AOL discontinued the dial-up tone synonymous with the internet. After 34 years, we will no longer hear the mechanical screech of connecting to the World Wide Web. Nostalgia notwithstanding, this news gives me pause to contemplate what my children will see sunset in their lifetimes. Consider Google today. A

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