Every time I think of next year's SAS Global Forum I get the sound of The Flower Pot Men floating around my head - Let's Go To San Francisco. I may only have turned five years old during the 1967 "summer of love", but some of those wonderfully happy ...
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The Call for Papers for next year's SAS Global Forum (SGF) opens tomorrow, August 28th.
The conference will take place between April 28th - May 1st 2013, in San Francisco, USA.
Paper presentations are an invaluable part of what has made SAS Global Fo...
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One of the other "futures" sessions I attended at SAS Global Forum was The New SAS Programming Language: DS2 with SAS's Jason Secosky. Jason was at pains to point out that DS2 is not intended as a replacement for the good old DATA step. DS2 is an alter...
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I was pleased to see some papers on the subject of software development processes at SAS Global Forum this year. The IT industry hasn't yet reached a point where a consensus on the perfect software development process has been reached (will it ever?)...
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I was pleased to see a number of papers at this year's SAS Global Forum that dared to focus on topics outside of SAS technology and syntax. Two papers that particularly caught my interest were How to Create a Business Intelligence Strategy by Guy Garre...
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Due to the failure of my Asus Transformer tablet I'm still reduced to posting from my phone. So please forgive my brevity!
Yesterday was a good day for me at the conference. I attended a number of futures sessions in the morning and gained some insigh...
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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...
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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...
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