by Terry Swaren | Apr 28, 2021 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Customer Experience, SAS, Uncategorized
As we announce our strategic technology alliance with Databricks I can’t help but to think how customers see these types of announcements. Partnerships are announced everyday, it is not uncommon to see a large enterprise hardware vendor announce a partnership with a...
by Ian J. Ghent | Jan 25, 2021 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, SAS
SAS Libraries SAS supports a wide array of different library engines that provide a semantic layer between the underlying data source and SAS. The engine provides an abstraction between SAS code and the physical location of the data. In addition to the native SAS...
by Terry Swaren | Dec 24, 2020 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, SAS
We’ve all been faced with the job search in our careers at one point, like many this is where I found myself in the later part of 2020. The good news, opportunity is abundant. As much doom and gloom 2020 has brought us, it has also brought a lot of greatness. I...
by Ian J. Ghent | Oct 26, 2020 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, SAS
Back in 2016, I wrote a blog article posing an interesting question; given the rise of Apache Spark as the defacto analytics platform, is SAS still relevant? The answer back then was a definitive yes. Well a lot has changed in the past 4 years! While we are reflecting...
by Andrea Bacqué | Oct 16, 2020 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Customer Experience, Python, SAS, Solutions
If your organization’s made a decison to move to the Cloud, chances are you are considering one of the top Cloud Service Providers. You should know they all run Apache Spark for its lightning-fast cluster computing and incomparable data processing performance...
by Andrea Bacqué | Sep 25, 2020 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Customer Experience, Java, Python, R, SAS, Scala, Solutions
I have the privilege of exchanging with Chief Data Officers around the world. I’m noting a consistent trend emerge with their data science modernization efforts. Getting rid of legacy is a bigger challenge than most anticipated. CDO’s all know that to...
