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RSS sas in newsSAS becomes sun worshipper
News Business intelligence software company SAS is to build a solar electric power farm at its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. SAS estimates the initiative will generate 1.7 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year leading to an annual CO2... [26 Jun 2008]
FS sector 'still hot for techies'
News Over the last three months there has been little to no change in demand for positions within the middle office, securities, analyst developers, system support, web developers and IT workers with skills in Oracle and SAS, it added. [03 Jun 2008]
Mile-high wi-fi takes off on US airlines
News Boeing was the first to come up with a service, called Connexion, which debuted in 2004 on a few international carriers including, Lufthansa, SAS, All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and Singapore Airlines. [13 Mar 2008]
Q&A: Teradata CEO Mike Koehler
News Since its split from NCR just a few weeks ago datawarehousing specialist Teradata has already made a splash with a strategic tie-up with business intelligence vendor SAS Datawarehousing is emerging as a robust growth area, a $15bn market set to... [22 Oct 2007]
Teradata and SAS going steady
News Teradata, the datawarehouse software specialist with its own NYSE listing as of a week ago, has announced a strategic partnership with business intelligence (BI) vendor SAS. The SAS BI software will run inside Teradata enterprise datawarehousing... [09 Oct 2007]
Exclusive: AA terminates £50m IBM deal
News Data warehousing will also be a big strategic decision - the AA is currently an SAS user while Saga has a mix of suppliers. The AA has terminated its £50m seven-year IT outsourcing deal with IBM three-and-a-half years early, as a result of its... [21 Sep 2007]
FSA upgrades tech to improve MiFID monitoring
News The project to upgrade Sabre started more than two years ago and the FSA has been helped by technology consultancy Detica, using technology from SAS and Progress Software. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is significantly upgrading the... [20 Jun 2007]
Fighting against the data deluge
News Companies that fail to use all their data are missing a trick, according to SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. We've been using the SAS software to bridge the last mile," he said.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Speaking at BI vendor SAS' recent customer... [24 May 2007]
Waitrose puts new forecast system in its basket
News Waitrose is using technology from SAS for its forecasting engine, to help calculate demand and monitor performance, while other parts of the new system have been built by the retailer using Java. Speaking at the SAS Forum in Stockholm, Richmond... [24 May 2007]
NHS signs up SAS in fight against fraud
News The NHS Counter Fraud Service (CFS) will use software from SAS for predictive data analysis which can indicate where fraud is most likely to occur and detect previously hidden trends in the data. The SAS Intelligence Platform will also be able to... [24 Jan 2007]
Break in Connexion from December
News Among the carriers affected will be Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, SAS and Korean Air, which has threatened to sue over the closure of the Boeing subsidiary. Connexion by Boeing, the soon to be defunct in-flight wi-fi service, has announced to... [13 Oct 2006]
Colin Powell: 'Open borders to skilled immigrants'
News Powell's words follow comments made earlier this year by Dr Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, who said the US is shooting itself in the foot by restricting the number of visas it offers. Former US secretary of state Colin Powell has warned members of the... [11 Oct 2006]
Foreign workers not needed by UK IT - poll
News The CEO of SAS, Jim Goodnight, also recently spoke out on the subject. Mind the IT skills gap? Not according to technology users voting in a silicon.com poll, the majority of whom firmly believe it's unnecessary for overseas workers to be drafted... [18 Sep 2006]
CRM projects learn from mistakes of the past
News Across Europe according to PAC, Oracle (including Siebel) was the biggest supplier by revenue at €514m, followed by SAP (€424m) then SAS (€260m) and Business Objects (€110m). Customer relationship management projects are enjoying a come-back... [30 Aug 2006]
Waitrose signs SAS to stock shelves
News UK supermarket chain Waitrose has signed a deal with business intelligence vendor SAS to forecast customer demand to ensure greater supply chain efficiency. The software will correlate past product history with projected demand based on seasonal... [02 Aug 2006]
