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Innovation | Internet of Things | SAS Events

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Caslee SimsSeptember 17, 2025 0

SAS and Pinnacle’s playbook for AI that knows your business

Generative AI is everywhere in the headlines, but for most organizations, the real challenge is making it work with their own knowledge base. That’s the focus for SAS and its long-time partner Pinnacle, who are applying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to put company data directly in the hands of employees, made

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

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Mark LambrechtSeptember 16, 2025 0

Architecting the modern clinical trial analytics environment

Clinical trials are the engine behind every new treatment we see – from life-saving cancer drugs to vaccines that help us fight global pandemics. But behind the scenes, running these trials involves juggling massive amounts of complex, sensitive data. For pharmaceutical companies, outdated technology systems can slow everything down, delaying

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Cloud | Innovation

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Elaina Siverling

Elaina SiverlingSeptember 15, 2025 0

Top 5 challenges SMBs face – and how modernizing to the cloud can help

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.

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

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Lauren BarnesSeptember 12, 2025 0

What are SAS User Groups and why do they matter?

If you’ve ever heard someone mention a “SAS User Group” and thought, “What does that actually mean?” you’re not alone. These groups are a cornerstone of the SAS ecosystem – but unless you’ve attended a meeting or conference and seen them in action, they can feel a little mysterious. Let’s break

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Analytics

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Peter WilliamsSeptember 12, 2025 0

Why agentic AI Is the future of banking

The banking industry is at a crossroads. With rising customer expectations, intense competition, ever-evolving regulations and mounting cost pressures, financial institutions must transform – or risk falling behind. Enter agentic AI, an advancement in artificial intelligence that’s poised to redefine how banks operate, serve, and grow. What is agentic AI?

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

Albert QianSeptember 11, 2025 0

3 key differences between decision workflows and traditional workflows

Imagine you're embarking on a road trip to your favorite vacation destination. Like most travelers today, you rely on a GPS to guide you. But not all GPS systems work the same way. Some provide a rigid, pre-planned route that doesn’t account for real-time changes. Others dynamically adapt and reroute

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

Adam NeibergSeptember 10, 2025 0

Cracking open banking’s black box

“What’s in the box?” This question can come from a joyous child tearing into a nondescript package – or it can come from Brad Pitt’s infamous line in the crime thriller Seven. Most of the time, what’s in the box ends with smiles and laughter. In banking, though, the “box”

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Customer Intelligence | Marketing

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Mike TurnerSeptember 9, 2025 0

Deploy offers and activate segments in real time across channels

This is the third 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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Artificial Intelligence | Learn SAS

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Mahesh ShettySeptember 8, 2025 0

Feeling left behind? These AI skills can put you back in the game

Generative AI (GenAI) has moved past its experimental phase. It is now deeply embedded in core business workflows, from sophisticated financial modeling and predictive analytics to dynamic content creation and strategic decision-making. This means the very definition of a “job-ready” professional has dramatically changed. Global surveys reveal the same trend:

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Analytics

Nicholas Quirke

Nicholas QuirkeSeptember 8, 2025 0

The importance of approaching AI with a growth mindset

With AI emerging as an increasing priority for organizations across all industries, it is critical for business and technology leaders to ensure AI is adding transformational value. That was the central theme in a recent conversation SAS CTO Bryan Harris had with streaming news channel Ticker. Harris shared his perspective

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

Thorsten HeinSeptember 4, 2025 0

Agentic AI for insurance underwriting: The what, why and how

With strong governance, data quality and thoughtful integration, agentic AI can transform insurance underwriting.

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

Christian Hardahl

Christian HardahlSeptember 3, 2025 0

Revolutionizing emergency care diagnostics with AI: 3 key factors

The emergency department (ED) has always been the front line of patient care – fast, chaotic and often lifesaving. But behind every quick decision made by a clinician, there’s a critical dependency: the lab. The link between EDs and hospital labs has a rich history, rooted in science, technology and

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

Caroline Kinlaw

Caroline KinlawSeptember 2, 2025 0

Transforming finance with AI-powered AML

At SAS Innovate in Orlando, our partners shared how they’re driving meaningful change with SAS®. From strengthening financial services with AI-powered AML solutions, to helping marketers build privacy-conscious personalization, to enabling scalable, cloud-based analytics, they’re showing what’s possible when innovation meets collaboration. In the video above, you’ll hear directly from

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Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good | Innovation

Selena MauAugust 27, 2025 0

How SAS interns used data to drive change – and discover their power

In a world where headlines often warn of automation replacing jobs and AI outpacing human creativity, it’s easy for young professionals to feel uncertain about their place in the future. But this summer, a group of SAS interns proved that technology can be a tool for good. Through a data

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Advanced Analytics | Innovation

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Colby HokeAugust 26, 2025 0

How SAS Viya ensures successful, sustainable model deployments

The speed at which your organization can deploy new AI models determines your ability to stay ahead of the competition. It’s a measure of your ability to experiment and innovate, try new things and learn quickly. It’s also one of the reasons organizations are investing in SAS® Viya® – which

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

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Emily JohnsonAugust 25, 2025 0

Tech takes: Jared Peterson on LLMs, agentic AI and low-code/no-code

Ever feel like tech headlines are coming at you faster than your morning coffee kicks in? One minute it’s LLMs, the next it’s agentic AI, and suddenly your spreadsheet wants to talk back. In a world where innovation never hits pause, SAS isn’t just watching the change; we’re part of the

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

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Albert QianAugust 21, 2025 0

What’s in a decision?: Four components needed to operationalize your analytics

Every organization collects data, but collecting it isn’t enough. For companies that want to make personalized offers, detect fraud and optimize supply chains, decision-making is the ultimate measure of analytics success. But despite massive investments in data infrastructure and AI, many companies still struggle to bridge the gap between insight and action. That’s

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Analytics

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Tom GreeneAugust 20, 2025 0

Supporting student growth through practical analytics

When Center Point-Urbana Community School District set out to rethink how they supported students, the leadership team knew they needed practical insights to better understand student academic growth and opportunities to improve instruction and interventions. Located in Iowa, the district serves a predominantly rural, middle-class community with four schools serving

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

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Lindsay Marshall

Lindsay MarshallAugust 18, 2025 0

AI can make fast decisions – but can you trust them?

Every day, AI is making choices that shape lives, industries and the future. But can we trust those choices? Organizations are making huge investments in AI, and it’s changing how decisions are made. But without clear results and proven value, investing in these technologies may be a failure. In fact,

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

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Nassim RahimiAugust 15, 2025 0

An innovative approach to design of experiments with synthetic data

Experimentation is the engine of innovation. Whether optimizing manufacturing processes, testing new materials, or simulating policy outcomes, the ability to run controlled experiments is essential. Design of experiments (DOE) is a well-established statistical methodology that helps organizations systematically explore the relationships between variables and outcomes. However, traditional DOE has its

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

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Sarah MuellerAugust 12, 2025 0

How to close the analytics leadership gap

In a world obsessed with AI and algorithms, it’s easy to assume that the biggest challenge in analytics is technical. It’s not. It’s human. How can enterprises nurture a culture that truly uses data-driven decision making? What role do leaders at every level play? And how does targeted education help

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Management

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Jennifer Griess

Jennifer GriessAugust 7, 2025 0

Transforming challenges into triumphs: 16 inspiring customer stories

From transforming online insurance services to combating the opioid epidemic, SAS customers are using data and AI to drive innovation, enhance efficiency and make a positive impact on society. These stories – and more – offer a glimpse into how our customers are shaping the future with SAS. Dive into

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Banking | Education | Health Care | Hospitality | Insurance | Life Sciences | Manufacturing | Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

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Jessica CurtisAugust 4, 2025 0

Staying ahead of supply chain disruptions – without starting from scratch

Let’s face it, supply chains today can feel like one headline away from chaos. Whether it’s new tariffs, labor strikes, warehouse fires or unpredictable weather patterns, retail and consumer goods companies are constantly juggling curveballs. Each disruption comes with a price: tighter margins, out-of-stock products, unhappy customers and many operational

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

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Sean FordAugust 1, 2025 0

CI/CD for Python and SAS: Build modern workflows with GitHub Actions

Learn how to modernize legacy SAS workflows by integrating Python and automating processes using GitHub Actions and SAS Viya Workbench, enabling seamless collaboration and CI/CD across development environments.

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Artificial Intelligence

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Caslee SimsJuly 31, 2025 0

5 myths about synthetic data – and what’s actually true

Synthetic data – algorithmically generated data that mimics real-world data – has emerged as a cornerstone in modern AI workflows. But its promise comes with persistent myths about its capabilities, limitations and reliability. Synthetic data is being explored across industries, from training machine learning models to helping businesses safeguard customer

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 28, 2025 0

How to position tick marks for months when you graph weekly data

Suppose you measure data weekly. According to the ISO standard, weeks are measured in the range 1-53, where most years have 52 weeks, but occasionally there is a "leap week." (The WEEK function in SAS implements the ISO standard to find the week-of-the-year for any date.) The heat map to

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Artificial Intelligence | Innovation

Vrushali Sawant

Vrushali SawantJuly 22, 2025 0

Building trustworthy AI agents with SAS Viya

AI agents take on more responsibility in our most sensitive systems – from finance to public safety to health care – one thing is clear: trust can’t just be designed in. It has to be sustained. Continuously. In the first two parts of this series, we explored the ethical foundations

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Advanced Analytics

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Heather Hallett

Heather HallettJuly 21, 2025 0

Smarter flow, better care: How analytics moves health care forward

Hospitals are being asked to do more with less – deliver rapid connections to health care services, generate better outcomes and have tighter coordination across teams and services. The patient is at the center of it all. Getting people the care they need, where they are and when they need

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Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence

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Mike TurnerJuly 15, 2025 0

Maximize the value of your first-party data, no IT required

This is the second 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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Innovation | Internet of Things | SAS Events

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Caslee SimsJuly 10, 2025 0

5 ways AI and IoT are driving the future of transportation

They say data is the new oil, but it’s only valuable if you can refine it into something useful. In transportation, that means turning raw traffic data, sensor inputs and video feeds into real-time insights that actually improve how we move. That metaphor set the tone for a 2025 IoT

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