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Becky GraebeJuly 2, 2024 0

US Space Force and industry leaders discuss a 'whole new frontier’ for AI and machine learning

US Space Force, US Space Command and industry pros explore how new technologies can be a force multiplier in space operations. Spoiler alert: The sky is not the limit. More than 300 US military, government civilian and industry professionals landed at SAS world headquarters June 25-26 for Cognitive Space Operations

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Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things | SAS Events

Caslee SimsJune 27, 2024 0

What do you get when you fuse GenAI with IoT?

GenAI's creative and analytical capabilities, integrated with IoT devices' connectivity and data insights, could lead to remarkable advancements. The market could become a mega-value creator, potentially exceeding $4.5 trillion by 2030. Discussions around this convergence were the focal point of a panel during the 2024 IoT Slam held at SAS

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Analytics

Jonathan MoranJune 27, 2024 0

3 reasons why marketers need SAS® for customer analytics

Customer analytics is becoming imperative for organizations that desire to create and provide personalized and satisfying customer experiences. To understand and anticipate customer needs, preferences and behaviors in a fast-moving marketplace, organizations must make sense of unstructured data, apply industry-specific data and analytics techniques, and optimize every customer-level decision and

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

David CarrickJune 26, 2024 0

From 9 cows to AI: the power of customer-led innovation

In modern business, innovation is not just a competitive advantage – it’s essential. Our Resiliency Rules study found that innovation is one of the five key elements needed for businesses in the modern landscape. But how do you drive innovation? By listening to your customers. At SAS, innovation is

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Fraud & Security Intelligence

Stu BradleyJune 24, 2024 0

Onboarding resilience in a fraudulent world: The power of decisioning

In financial services, the onboarding journey takes on heightened significance. It’s not just about welcoming new customers—it’s about safeguarding their information, validating identity, mitigating risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and making a great first impression. To achieve these goals, modernizing the decisioning process is crucial. In fact, decisioning lies at the

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJune 24, 2024 0

Teaching an AI assistant to read and write SAS IML vectors

One of the most exciting features of SAS Viya Workbench is that the code editor includes a generative AI component called SAS Viya Copilot. This feature was announced and demonstrated at SAS Innovate 2024. With the Copilot, you can specify a text prompt that generates SAS code. For example, you

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SAS Events

Lilia Rodriguez

Lilia RodriguezJune 20, 2024 0

Educators share their experiences from SAS Innovate

Good educators are more than a source of knowledge; they inspire, innovate and continuously adapt to provide their students with the best learning experiences. They embrace new technologies, foster critical thinking and prepare students for future challenges. Recognizing their importance, SAS recently honored educators at SAS Innovate 2024. This year’s

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Artificial Intelligence | Risk Management

Kristi BoydJune 19, 2024 0

Understanding AI governance

AI governance is an all-encompassing strategy that establishes oversight, ensures compliance and develops consistent operations and infrastructure within an organization. It also fosters a human-centric culture. This strategy includes specific governance domains such as data governance and model governance, necessary for a unified AI approach. Why AI governance matters The

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Analytics

Kayt LeonardJune 18, 2024 0

Two sides of the same coin: GenAI and AI

“Generative AI is essentially just a subcategory of AI; it’s not that new algorithms have been invented.” Marinela Profi, AI Product Strategy Lead at SAS, says it up front and directly in her most recent podcast interview. “It takes a variety of data points, code, images and then, based on

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Artificial Intelligence | Marketing

Becky GraebeJune 11, 2024 0

SAS CMO Jenn Chase joins panel to discuss GenAI integration in marketing

SAS CMO Jennifer Chase and a panel of chief marketing officers offer insights on how they’re weaving AI into the business at American Marketing Association event Recent Salesforce research highlights a fact that didn’t seem to surprise the full-house audience at an American Marketing Association Annual CMO panel at SAS

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Artificial Intelligence | Equity and Responsibility | Risk Management

Franklin Manchester

Franklin ManchesterJune 10, 2024 0

How insurance companies can use synthetic data to fight bias

Stop bias in its tracks – learn about the value of synthetic data for insurance.

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Artificial Intelligence

Danielle BatesJune 6, 2024 0

Banking on GenAI: Wells Fargo leads a conversation on AI innovation

A recent SAS survey revealed that 80% of business leaders are anxious about GenAI's data privacy and security implications Owing to these and other concerns, Wells Fargo Chief Data Officer Brian Gibbons and an esteemed panel of AI experts, hosted by Wells Fargo Technology Banking, addressed an audience of the

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Artificial Intelligence

Albert QianJune 4, 2024 0

3 benefits to creating synthetic data with SAS and Snowflake

Synthetic data generation has intrigued across industries for its many use cases, including fraud detection, clinical trials, worker safety and law enforcement. One of the main benefits is the low cost of creating synthetic data, which is often cheaper than collecting actual demographic, psychographic or behavior-based information. With such data,

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Caslee SimsJune 4, 2024 0

8 impactful quotes from SAS leaders at theCUBE

Step into the vibrant, insightful platform that is theCUBE, where industry leaders don’t just talk tech; they unpack AI’s impact on our world. Eight quotes aren’t enough to describe all the knowledge shared by SAS leaders during theCUBE’s session at SAS Innovate 2024. But this blog post would go on

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Bill AbbateMay 24, 2024 0

These students are creating apps for our daily lives with SAS®

Remember when the popular catchphrase, “We have an app for that,” was the new big thing? You might not if you’re as young as the NC State University students who recently participated in the 11th annual SAS-NC State Design Project, but back when we could still count 21st-century years in

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMay 22, 2024 0

Create filled density plots in SAS

A SAS programmer wanted to visualize density estimate for some univariate data. The data had several groups, so he wanted to create a panel of density estimate, which you can easily do by using PROC SGPANEL in SAS. However, the programmer's boss wanted to see filled density estimates, such as

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Ellen Joyner-Roberson, CFE

Ellen Joyner-Roberson, CFEMay 21, 2024 0

3 ways generative AI can assist in criminal investigations

Across the world, investigators and law enforcement officers are tackling a rapidly evolving and expanding workload fueled by an increase in complex modern-day crimes. As technology alters the type and methodology of the crime itself – the evasion of tax payments, theft of public funds, erroneous disbursement of benefits, gaming

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SAS Events

Ginny InmanMay 17, 2024 0

Bringing the Innovation Hub home

Imagine stuffing a 500,000-square-foot event space into a 5,000-square-foot hallway. That was the crazy idea I had when I checked out the Innovation Hub. The Innovation Hub was the center of the action at SAS Innovate in Las Vegas. Attendees saw demos of the hottest new SAS solutions, met the technical

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Analytics

Vrushali Sawant

Vrushali SawantMay 16, 2024 0

5 ethical questions to consider before making AI-driven decisions

So now you're ready to make decisions with your models. You’ve asked many questions along the way and should now understand what’s all at play. But how can you ensure these decisions are trustworthy and ethical? Transparency is crucial. Sharing the reasoning behind our choices in relationships, whether at home

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Customer Intelligence

Lisa LoftisMay 15, 2024 0

Is your CDP living up to its promise?

Has your organization invested in a customer data platform (CDP) only to find that it's not living up to its promise? You're not alone. In fact, Digiday reports that only 10% of marketers who have a CDP believe it’s fit for purpose while an even smaller amount (1%) feel certain

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Analytics | Curiosity

John CareyMay 13, 2024 0

How SAS channel leaders make a difference for partners and customers

SAS and our vibrant partner network collaborate to help our customers address their toughest challenges with the power of data and AI. With partners around the globe and across industries, the SAS® Partner Program combines cutting-edge SAS software with our partners’ expertise and industry knowledge to meet customers’ unique business

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Artificial Intelligence

John GottulaMay 13, 2024 0

3 strategies for effective data anonymization for governments

The ancients’ practice of publicizing set-in-stone personal records would run anathema to modern data privacy laws. These days, in lieu of using contemporary personally identifiable records, I anonymized a 4,000-year-old tax record from ancient Babylon to describe three principles for effective data anonymization at scale: Embracing rare attributes: values and

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Udo SglavoMay 9, 2024 0

AI: A ‘new digital species’?

I've been fortunate to work on advanced analytics, machine learning and AI for more than 25 years. It’s more than a job. It’s my passion. So naturally, I was very interested in tuning into Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s TED talk, What is an AI anyway? From my perspective, Mustafa

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Analytics

Caslee SimsMay 7, 2024 0

Exploring generative AI's impact on ethics, data privacy and collaboration

Generative AI (GenAI) is booming. It’s not just a trend; it’s produced a seismic shift in how we approach innovation and technology. SAS Innovate 2024 has moved on from Las Vegas and is now on tour across the world. If you want a recap of what happened in Vegas or

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMay 6, 2024 0

Visualize patterns of missing values

Years ago, I wrote an article that showed how to visualize patterns of missing data. During a recent data visualization talk, I discussed the program, which used a small number of SAS IML statements. An audience member asked whether it is possible to construct the same visualization by using only

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Advanced Analytics

Nicholas Quirke

Nicholas QuirkeMay 2, 2024 0

Completing the circle: Two students’ journey from learning SAS in the classroom to joining the team

An uncertain global economic climate has created a sense of unease and a heightened risk when managing finances for individuals and banking and financial institutions. Helping banks and financial institutions manage risk is a central pillar of how SAS adds value for our customers, who must ensure their organization is

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Advanced Analytics

Federica Citterio

Federica CitterioMay 1, 2024 0

5 steps to improve information extraction using trustworthy generative AI

SAS' Federica Citterio answers the perennial data science question: "How can I trust (generative) LLM to provide a reliable, non-hallucinated result?"

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Analytics | SAS Events

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Alison BolenApril 23, 2024 0

Ten commandments for building digital relationships from Jyske bank

Digital banking, big tech and data privacy are all contributing to a shift in the Scandinavian banking scene, according to Tom Palving, Center of Excellence Lead for Digital Communication and Sales Loyalty at Jyske Bank. As a result, says Palving, traditional banks are facing a number of challenges, including: Customers

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Analytics | Data for Good | Innovation

Olivia OjedaApril 22, 2024 0

5 smart cities at the intersection of sustainability and technology

Urbanization is rapidly accelerating, allowing communities to grow with more access to services and technological advancements. However, this quick change in growth can present challenges as well, such as pollution and lack of infrastructure. Smart cities can support urbanization by offering innovative solutions with artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of

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Internet of Things

Jason MannApril 22, 2024 0

A clear vision for the future of IoT and smart cities

Thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and laptops, people are used to getting what they need at the press of a button – whether they’re looking for information, seeking action or trying to solve a problem. Citizens want that same ease of access from their city’s government. As more citizens

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