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…
We will be an exhibitor at IoT World 2017 in Santa Clara for the second year in a row! Please stop by and say hello, and we can discuss some of your ideas on how to leverage data from sensors,…
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…
We are a sponsor of SAS Global Forum once again this year. Please stop by and say hello. Our booth will be in the lower Quad, directly across from the Analytics demo stations.
Yes, everybody’s talking about analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). A recent Gartner hype cycle places the “Internet of Things” squarely at the top of the so-called “peak of inflated expectations.” Nearby, just a little down the slope on either side,…
First Analytics team member Matt Yancey shows some nifty visualizations of the weather of every day of his life: The Weather of My Life
Originally published by Tom Davenport in Teradata Perspectives at Forbes.com There is widespread agreement that the Internet of Things will be a transformative factor in the business use of information. The prospect of billions of connected devices promises to transform home activities,…
One of the leaders of First Analytics, Tom Davenport, has written about how to organize analytics professionals within companies. For example, in “Five Ways to Organize Your Data Scientists” he comments on organizational variations ranging between a fully decentralized organization with…
Initially published by Tom Davenport on Data Informed. A few years ago, while working with DJ Patil (now the Chief Data Scientist of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy) on an article about data scientists, he related to me a…