One of the biggest hits of the demo hall at SAS Global Forum was the cute Koala bear swag from MetaCoda.com. Everyone wanted to stop by the booth and pick one up for their badge. Driving people to your booth is the first step, but then you must have co…
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2012 – Workflow Management #sasgf12
Yesterday, I saw an interesting session with Diane Hatcher and other SAS staff which highlighted the workflow capabilities that ship with many SAS solutions (including eBI) but which most sites are unaware of.
The capabilities are not intended to be…
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2012 – Update #sasgf12
My Asus Transformer Android tablet refused to switch on yesterday afternoon and has continued to do nothing ever since. This is most annoying, it’s less than a year old. I’ve resorted to typing-up my notes on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone. It work…
Go home on time with these 5 PROC SQL tips
How can you go home on time? Take a quick tour with these 5 tips that I was able to summarize for my students in the SAS SQL 1: Essentials class yesterday. Since they found it handy and asked if it could become a blog post, I thought I’d share […]
SASware Ballot has history, but still relevant
SAS has a rich history of working together with SAS customers to explore new ideas. Since 1976, we have been asking our customers what they would like to see in SAS software. The first SASware Ballot was released that year and has steadily grown along…
Two presentations, one hour, lots of data strategy
My friend and fellow blogger Steve Overton was tasked with presenting not one by two papers in a single one hour block. My original strategy was to take Instagram pictures of him running down the hall to get to the second session on time, but since bot…