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SAS product portfolio and roadmaps

March 7, 2011

Warning, long post follows – SAS has a lot of products and even this summary was a lot. A big session on the product portfolio – 2010 and 2011 highlights in some specific focus areas. New releases in 2010 included:

Customer Link Analytics – released in Q1 this product focused on using links between customers to [...]

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SAS Vertical Strategy

March 7, 2011

Focus of the presentation from Russ Cobb was Banking, Insurance, Retail and Government.
Banking first. Lots of releases this year primarily around Enterprise Risk Management, Governance Risk Compliance, Customer intelligence, fraud and financial crime solutions. Key customer issues for SAS in banking:

Customer Growth
How do you identify, grow and manage your most profitable customers. Big focus for [...]

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SAS Sales and Marketing Overview

March 7, 2011

Carl Farrell came up to talk about sales enablement and execution. 2010 was an interesting year in the Americas as the recovery was very inconsistent between countries in the Americas and across verticals. Strong growth in First Year Fees – 21% in US, 15% in Canada and 56% nearly in Latin America (with the Southern [...]

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SAS Inside Intelligence 2011 – Executive Viewpoioint

March 7, 2011

I am attending the SAS analyst day this week – SAS Inside Intelligence.
Jim Goodnight kicked off the SAS analyst event. Numbers look good for a tough economy – 5.2% worldwide growth in US Dollars or 6.7% without currency fluctuation. Latin America, Canada and Asia Pacific were all very strong but regions were good across the [...]

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First Look – SAS High Performance Computing

March 7, 2011

I caught up with SAS recently to discuss their high-performance computing products. SAS’ high performance computing products are designed to address some known customer challenges such as underutilized computing resources, rapidly growing data volume and complexity, unnecessary data movement, and slow time to results because underlying hardware infrastructure is maxed out. Add in a general [...]

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Big data, big acquisition, still some big questions

March 3, 2011

Teradata announced its intent to acquire Aster Data today. Obviously this is big news in analytics-land and I participated in a call where the two companies gave some quick information.
The driver for the acquisition seems t be an increasing focus on generally unstructured and untapped data and expanding the Teradata portfolio into this adjacent space. [...]

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First Look – SAS Customer Intelligence

January 4, 2011

I got a quick update from the customer intelligence folks at SAS recently. Customer Intelligence is SAS’ largest solution line (with dedicated sales, marketing and engineering) and they are projecting to have a record year in 2010. SAS describes their SAS  Customer Intelligence Suite as providing three core benefits for organizations, each based on a [...]

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SAS Webinar – Business Analytics 101

November 18, 2010

[ December 15, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am presenting at a SAS webinar Business Analytics 101 on December 15th with Anne Milley and Tapan Patel of SAS. I will be presenting my thoughts on analytics and on a recent CIO Magazine/SAS study that was written up in a MarketPulse paper “From Data to Differentiator” (registration required). You can register for the [...]

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Elements of Business Analytics

November 17, 2010

Syndicated from IIA
My friends at SAS, a sponsor of IIA, have a nice piece on their Knowledge Exchange – Elements of a Business Analytics Framework for IT. This lays out their view on the different kinds of decision types and maps them to decision frequency. Both in Smart (Enough) Systems and in my blog posts [...]

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Happy world statistics day!

October 20, 2010

It turns out that today is World Statistics Day (according to my friends at SAS, who have a page all about it). The focus of the day is on the value of official statistics. So, if you are working for a governmental or non-governmental statistics organization, have a nice day
If you don’t work [...]

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Opportunities to meet me this fall

October 12, 2010

Show season kicked off today with RulesFest in San Jose. Great audience and good attendance for this technical show on business rules and related technology where I presented on Decision Services need more than rules. With that out of the way my schedule gets busy for a few weeks.
Next week I am giving a workshop [...]

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First Look – Aster Data

September 22, 2010

I listened in to the Boulder BI Brain Trust briefing from Aster some weeks back and then got a follow-on update last week. Aster was founded in 2005 based on research performed by a team at Stanford. The initial plan was to develop a data management platform based on commodity hardware and this was released [...]

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First Look – Rapid Predictive Modeler

September 2, 2010

SAS today announced SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler today. Some time ago I got a pre-release look at this most interesting product.
Today SAS sees quantitative modelers working on developing and validating models in conjunction with database architects to manage data preparation tasks. Like me they also find that business analysts work on the application of the [...]

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Update – SAS Model Manager

August 18, 2010

I got an update from SAS on SAS Model Manager recently. The new release came out August 17 alongside a new release of SAS Enterprise Miner and has some interesting new features. SAS Model Manager, as I noted in my previous review, supports the analytic model deployment lifecycle (from registering candidate models through validation, deployment, [...]

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Operational Analytics research available

May 6, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I have been working on some research with the BeyeNETWORK and we are pleased to announce the release of “Operational Analytics: Putting Analytics to Work in Operational Systems”.
The basic premise for this report is the power of analytics to improve decision making has huge potential when applied to the large numbers of decisions [...]

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First Look – Revolution Analytics

May 6, 2010

I got my first formal briefing from REvolution Computing recently. REvolution has been around for about 2 years. Originally they focused on bringing parallel computing power to R and providing some consulting around the language. They raised some new funding recently and now have a new management team, including CEO Norman Nie (co-founder of SPSS) [...]

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Teradata Customer Warner Bros Home Entertainment

April 28, 2010

Thomas Tileston of Warner Bros Home Entertainment (DVDs, games and digital distribution part of Warner Bros) was next talking about their use of SAS and Teradata. He started with a little history as he has been using SAS for 20 years or so.

In the early days analytical data set preparation was 70% of the work [...]

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Teradata Business Analytics Innovation Center

April 28, 2010

Bill Franks was up next to talk about the joint SAS, Teradata, Elder Research Business Analytics Innovation Center. The purpose of this center is to help customers develop game changing analytic solutions not just adopt analytics. The center brings together best SAS and Teradata folks to help customers with analytics while also bringing third parties [...]

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Teradata – Q&A with Stephen Brobst

April 28, 2010

Stephen Brobst, Teradata’s CTO, took open Q&A.

What’s the business and architectural impact of the temporal (and spatial) extensions in 13.10?
Most Teradata customers are doing temporal things but implementing manually today using things like effective date columns. This is hard work and the new feature makes it easier to manage, more accessible to customers (some of [...]

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First Look – Oracle Data Mining

April 27, 2010

I got an update on Oracle Data Mining – the in-database solution for data mining and predictive analytics offered by Oracle – recently. They have made ODM available on the amazon compute cloud so you can easily try it and they have been doing some interesting work on a new GUI and on integration with [...]

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