Adopting artificial intelligence (AI) into your business can drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage. However, one of the crucial decisions you'll face is whether to build your AI solution in-house or buy a ready-made solution from a vendor. This "build…
Do your eyes roll when you hear the term "AI" thrown out indiscriminately? Do you bring your AI Buzzword Bingo card to meetings, especially vendor sales pitches? Then we have something for you! We have placed in our library a…
For the longest time, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies were limited mostly to mass marketing, unable to address consumers directly. That has changed, and with the emergence of Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), understanding and predicting consumer behavior is now more…
Over four years ago we commented on "bewildering technology landscapes". Matt Turck from Firstmark Capital has produced these landscape charts for a number of years. And these can be "eye charts" in the sense that, visually, it's a myriad of logos packed…
For analytics professionals there was a time where model building decisions were nearly entirely related to methodology and algorithm selection. These decisions also informed the choice of software to use. Today, the availability of algorithms and software has exploded, making…
Technology landscapes like these are "eye charts". While meant to classify vendors and technologies, when viewed from a distance they convey the message that selecting technologies is a daunting and overwhelming exercise. Matt Turck from Firstmark Capital recently updated his…
When we advise our clients on SAS Analytics Platform Modernization, we are usually talking about the platform more than the analytics. That is, N-tier architectures, distributed computing, or even SAS Viya. It Is easy to forget that SAS Institute also…
Through our analytics platform services we help our clients "modernize" their use of SAS. Many analytics shops still operate under the individual desktop instance model. See the benefits of evolving into a server or grid (distributed) environment as depicted in…