I have had a number of customers who’s IT departments have had no end of trouble trying to package the SAS 9.2 clients for automatic deployment. They typically are trying to use the Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) capability to create a no touch way of installing the SAS Clients (Enterprise Guide, AMO etc) on […]
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Poor old Harrah’s, actions speak larger than presentations
At the SAS Global Forum 2011, the opening session had a great presentation from Harrah’s President and CEO Gary Loveman. Gary spoke about how Harrah’s make use of SAS Analytics to encourage increased usage of their resorts and casino’s. He spoke about how they charter flights that fly people for free from different US cities to a Harrah’s resort, […]
SAS on VMware, new SAS Best Practice paper
I had the pleasure of sitting through a session by Margaret Creva on I/O limitations of SAS on windows 2008. Will blog more on the sessions later but really the guts is if you are thinking of using SAS on Windows 2008 and have any sort of I/O requirements then the solution is simple….. Go Linux. Anyway once […]
SAS Licensing/Bundling Changes, 9.3 and others
There seems to be a lot of movement in the the way SAS are bundling and licensing the multitude of SAS solutions and products at the moment. Here are the changes I think I heard before and during the SAS Global Forum (as always please check with your SAS Account team to confirm the details) SAS […]
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Update #4
The conference is finished now. I’m back in my room, packing, in anticipation of tomorrow’s flight back to London. I’m hoping to catch a show tonight – but I haven’t booked yet.
It was a good conference, with plenty to learn. If you’d like to get a fe…
NOTE: Mobile BI at SAS Global Forum 2011
I bravely forecast before attending SAS Global Forum 2011 that Mobile BI would the *the* hot topic. Well, I wouldn’t say that it was hot, but it was fresh from the oven and very tempting. In fact, SAS had not one, not two, but three types of mobile com…
Cheated by my SAS Global Forum 2011 Hotel??
I just got charged for using my conference hotel’s internet connection. This despite the original details on the SAS web site stating “rates include daily in-room high-speed Internet access”. I just checked back to the Housing page to be sure of my fac…
If you need a SAS/Access to JDBC – Let SAS know (Please)
I have been doing some work with a customer who is implementing Business Objects Data Federator as the preferred mechanism for all tools to access their corporate data. This includes accessing data in their corporate applications as well as the Data Warehouse. They have a SAS Analytics environment and would like SAS to comply with this standard […]