SAS Makes Triple Play

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 News   |   Commentary   |   Slideshows   |   Reports   |   Videos   |   TechCenters   |   Events   |   RSS Feeds   By Doug Henschen   SAS Makes Triple Play SAS unleashed three major announcements at its Global Forum in San Francisco this week, with a wave of new SAS High-Performance Analytics capabilities, a newly unified SAS Customer Experience marketing suite, and new levels of support for public and private cloud deployment of SAS software. SAS High-Performance Analytics software is designed to take advantage of highly distributed, massively parallel processing (MPP) on memory-intensive X86 servers. It has been a big strategic push for SAS over the last two years, as customers demand ever-faster performance. SAS previously offered High-Performance versions of industry specific applications, such as financial risk analysis and marketing optimization. But with the SAS High-Performance Analytics upgrades announced this week and set for release in June, SAS will bring MPP power to six core products in its portfolio: Statistics, Data Mining, Text Mining, Optimization, Econometrics, and Forecasting. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS ALSO IN THIS EDITION • Women In Tech: Career Advice From Elite Execs • Boosting The ROI Of Your IT Degree • Attend E2, Conquer Your Enterprise Challenges • Is Google Bad For Your Brain? • IBM Crunches Internet Of Things Data • Cloud Survey Has Warning For Amazon • Groundbreaking Online Library Intrigues Educators • Skype Gets More Versatile     INSIDE THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF INFORMATIONWEEK Uncle Sam's taken the lead on secure use of cloud services. Here's how FedRAMP can change your experience, too. ALSO: Candid career advice for women in IT includes calling work-life balance a myth. Log In Or Register To Download     COMMENTARY Women In Tech: Career Advice From Elite Execs By Chris Murphy Work-life balance is a myth, risk-taking is vital, and other lessons women (and men) must learn. Boosting The ROI Of Your IT Degree By Professor Michael Goul Information technology (IT) bucks U.S. employment trends as one of the fastest-growing professional fields in the country today. A master's degree has been shown to improve students' chances of securing an IT position with a high return on investment (ROI). What do I mean by a high ROI? My students express the following three hopes for their careers. Attend E2, Conquer Your Enterprise Challenges By Fritz Nelson Social, mobile, cloud, and big data all can help you move more quickly and reach new customers. For the latest wisdom on how, join us at the E2 Conference in Boston. Is Google Bad For Your Brain? By Tom Claburn Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin acknowledges that technology can bring both positive and negative changes, but he contends that, overall, technology will make the world a better place. Brin said as much in his 2012 Google founders' letter, dated April 25, 2013, on Google's Google+ feed, even as he concludes on a note of caution. "Still, we need to continue to work hard to ensure that our contributions are decidedly beneficial--helping people to lead easier, richer and more fulfilling lives," wrote Brin.   JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By NJ Mike: "I'm 51 years old, but I can still remember phone numbers of my friends when I was a teen-ager. However, today, I don't know my parents' or my children's phone numbers. I find their names in my contact list and push a button, or tell Siri to call them, and their numbers are dialed. If my phone is lost, or the battery dies, a pay phone is little use if I don't know a number to call." In reply to: Is Google Bad For Your Brain? View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply   NEWS & ANALYSIS IBM Crunches Internet Of Things Data IBM MessageSight appliance connects sensors, mobile devices for machine-to-machine data capture and real-time analysis. Cloud Survey Has Warning For Amazon RightScale's State of the Cloud survey finds Amazon the public cloud leader--but IT is looking to Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft for added testing and experiments. Groundbreaking Online Library Intrigues Educators Digital Public Library of America gives researchers access to collections that previously would have required visiting another university, lets librarians augment their schools' education. Skype Gets More Versatile Will Outlook.com integration and other new Skype features boost Microsoft's user base? MORE NEWS    REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Research: 2013 BI/Analytics Salary Survey Companies know that advanced analytics can give them a competitive advantage, but how do they get there? 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