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This Week’s Big Data Big Ten

Week of April 27: We touch on news about tackling rugby injuries with analytics; investors taking a shine to Lustre; Sears Buys into Hadoop; Teradata sports new "sassy" appliance; supporting data-intensive science; analytics superheroes unmasked; and continued developments for in-memory analytics. Read more…

Goodnight to BI Performance Claims

Jim Goodnight, CEO and co-founder of analytics software giant SAS says that there are important distinctions between the SQL-based, traditional approaches to business intelligence and the new generation of high-performance analytics.... Read more…

SAS Spots Targets in the Wild

Parks and recreation departments, especially at the state level, have their management work cut out for them between handling resources--human, natural and otherwise. One such department tapped SAS to help them get a better handle.... Read more…

SAS Extends Integration with Hadoop

SAS has announced that SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server users can make the Hadoop connection with the release of the newest update. Hadoop will join the ranks of other data source possibilities within their Data Integration Server... Read more…

Indian IT Giant Pins Future on Analytics

One of India's top IT products and services companies has emphasized the role of analytics, in addition to the converging mobile and cloud trends, as key to their continued growth. According the company's VP of business for the Middle.... Read more…

Revolution Analytics Sparks New Uses for R

Advocates and beneficiaries of the open source R language, Revolution Analytics, has been on a mission to prove the enterprise value of R by sharing use cases and new ideas. This week they announced the winners of their contest to show how R can improve.... Read more…

SAS Shifts Retail Analytics to HPC Platform

This week SAS announced that their more popular and resource-demanding packages for retailers would be moved under the umbrella of their High Performance Computing Platform. This includes products to harness predictive analytics and allow for swift price changes. Read more…

New Techniques Turbo-Charge Data Mining

Data mining is nothing new, but over the last few years the frameworks, software and hardware tools that support it have matured by leaps and bounds to accommodate massive data growth...and new techniques, including spectral feature selection are adding new dimensions to an old algorithmic regime. Read more…

Management Backs SAS Revenue Boost

Today SAS announced that their data management business saw an increase from 2010. The company pointed to growing management demands that helped them net new customers, including major financial services clients. Read more…

Banking Giant Eyes Customer Behavior with SAS

ING Direct is once again touting its use of SAS to make the most of the customer data it collects. The company stated today that it would be using banking customer information to provide more targeted approaches based on buying behavior. Read more…

SAS Goes Inside Analytics in Orlando

This year SAS held its first annual Inside Analytics event, which merged together two formerly distinct conferences focused on data mining and forecasting. With the consolidation came the chance to include a range of other topics, from predictive modeling to use case exploration--not to mention an opportunity for SAS to talk more about its rounder portfolio with the addition of high performance analytics offerings. Read more…

SAS Previews High Performance Analytics Features

During an event in Florida this week, SAS lifted the curtain ever so slightly on two of its new high performance analytics offerings, including a risk calculation product aimed squarely at financial services. SAS has revealed a few details about the two solutions. Read more…

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