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Paul Kent – VP, R & D

Ryan Schmiedl – Sr. Director, Product Management

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Big Data Analytics – Architecture to Visualization

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Paul Kent – Vice President of Big Data

Paul Kent coordinates with customers, partners and R&D teams to make sure the SAS development road map is taking world-class mathematics to the biggest, baddest problems out there. Kent joined SAS in 1984 as a Technical Marketing Representative and eventually moved into the Research and development division. He has used SAS for more than 30 years and contributed to the development of SAS software components including PROC SQL, the WHERE clause, TCP /IP connectivity, portions of the Output Delivery System (OD S) and, most recently, the Massively Parallel approaches for performing SAS work. A strong customer advocate, Kent is widely recognized within the SAS community for his active participation in local and international users conferences.

Greg Hodges – Director of BI Product Management

Greg Hodges and his team are responsible for defining requirements and providing direction for components of the SAS Business Intelligence (BI) product suite. The key focus of the group is to provide users of the SAS BI platform with the ability to receive and deliver actionable content across the spectrum of devices and technologies that have been widely adopted by enterprise organizations. He often works and communicates with customer and analysts to access market drivers and trends to ensure SAS’ BI products deliver the key capabilities needed by customers and prospects. Previously at SAS, Greg was a manager in the Professional Services Division and worked closely with customers to implement a variety of SAS products and solutions. Additionally, Greg worked in the Research and Development Division building solutions used to fight financial crimes. Specifically he was a development manager/lead for both the SAS Anti-Money Laundering solution as well as the Fraud Management Solution. Prior to joining SAS, Greg was a software engineer for measurements Group Inc. which is a leading supplier of strain gauges, instruments, and accessories for experimental stress analysis and precision transducers.

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SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 60,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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SAS® Solutions for Hadoop

Hadoop brings big data. We bring everything else.

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Adding Hadoop to your big data mix? Now what? SAS provides everything you need to derive valuable insights from all that data. Extensive data management – because prepping data is hugely time consuming. Visual data discovery. In-memory processing. Sophisticated analytics. And the ability to quickly deploy the models that provide the best answers.

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Wayne Thompson – Chief Data Scientist

Wayne Thompson is a globally renowned presenter, teacher, practitioner and innovator in the fields of data mining and machine learning. He has worked alongside the world’s biggest and most challenging organizations to help them harness analytics to build high-performing organizations.

Over the course of his 20-year tenure at SAS he has been credited with bringing to market landmark SAS analytics technologies (SAS Text Miner, Credit Scoring for SAS® Enterprise Miner™, SAS Model Manager, SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler, SAS Scoring Accelerator for Teradata, SAS High-Performance Analytics and SAS Analytics Accelerator for Teradata).

Current focus initiatives include easy-to-use self-service data mining tools for business analysts, outlier detection and description, entity analytics, and recommendation engines with a heavy focus on SAS’ highly interactive in-memory analytics optimized for Hadoop.

Mike Frost – Senior Product Manager

Mike Frost joined SAS in 2010 as a product manager working for the DataFlux subsidiary of SAS. Since joining, he has assumed responsibility for the vision, strategy, planning and development direction of SAS data quality, data management, data integration, data federation, data governance and master data management products. Frost has spent 15 years in various data management-related product marketing, presales and technical support roles that provide him with a broad spectrum of experiences to draw upon to help bring the best products to market. Frost holds a bachelor’s degree in biological and agricultural engineering from North Carolina State University.

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SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 75,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know.®

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SAS® Viya™

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Open, cloud-ready SAS® Viya™ is a next-generation high-performance analytics and visualization architecture that serves everyone – from data scientists to business analysts, application developers to executives – with the reliable, scalable, secure analytics management and governance essential for agile IT.

Presenter(s):

Wayne Thompson – Senior Manager, Data Science Technologies Product Management

Wayne Thompson is a globally renowned presenter, teacher, practitioner and innovator in the fields of data mining and machine learning. He has worked alongside the world’s biggest and most challenging organizations to help them harness analytics to build high-performing organizations.

Mike Frost – Senior Manager, Cloud and Platform Technologies

With a background that includes more than fifteen years in product management, product marketing, presales, and technical support roles, Mike Frost brings a broad spectrum of experiences to help bring the best products to market. After joining the DataFlux subsidiary of SAS in 2010 as product manager for all data management products, Mike now leads SAS’ Cloud and Platform Technologies product management team and is responsible for the strategy, vision, and roadmap for all core SAS platform and Cloud-based offerings. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in biological and agricultural engineering from NC State University.

Company Profile:

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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SAS® Visual Analytics

Modern BI and Analytics Platform

Summary:

SAS Visual Analytics offers a market leading self-service data visualization and analytics platform to visually discover relevant relationships in your data from across multiple data sources, create and share interactive reports and dashboards, and use self-service analytics to quickly assess probable outcomes and make smarter, data driven-decisions.

Presenter(s):

Anand Chitale – Director, Product Management

Anand Chitale is a technology evangelist with 15+ years of global experience in launching innovative products in the existing and new markets, driving a change to democratize BI and Analytics as an individual contributor, designing and implementing strategic business solutions for large organizations across multiple verticals in client-facing roles and leading teams with expertise in Visualization (BI) and Data Management, Big Data Analytics & Internet of Things (IoT).

Currently Anand is the Director, Product Management, SAS Business Intelligence and drives the strategy, vision and roadmap for SAS Visual Analytics as the core SAS platform offering for analytical data visualization.

Anand holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi.

Atrin Assa – S. Product Manager – SAS Visual Analytics

Atrin Assa is a product manager on SAS Visual Analytics, responsible for driving SAS Visual Analytics user experience and visual design as well as overseeing SAS Home. Since joining SAS in 2015, Atrin has helped integrate SAS Visual Analytics’ user experience and visual design to bring a more cohesive and quality experience to business intelligence customers.

Atrin holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and an MBA in Innovation Management and Marketing from North Carolina State University. His diverse background in marketing, product innovation, product quality, and user experience includes work with companies of equally diverse scales and industries including Apple, Destineer Studios, and Protochips.

Mark Schneider – Principle Product Manager – SAS Platform Technologies

Company Profile:

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

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Business Intelligence with SAS® : Analytics for Everyone, Everywhere

Summary

Smart. Flexible. Anywhere. SAS Visual Analytics delivers an easy-to-use visual discovery and self-service analytics platform that supports the entire analytics lifecycle – from data, discovery to deployment. With SAS Visual Analytics, users can uncover relationships in data from across multiple data sources, create and share interactive reports and dashboards to drive faster, smarter decisions.

Presenter(s)

Anand Chitale – Director, Product Management

Robby Powell – Product Manager, SAS Visual Analytics

Stacey Schaeffer – Director, Price and Offering Management

Rick Styll – Product Manager, SAS Visual Analytics

Katie Tedrow – Product Marketing Manager

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