Commercial Software in an Increasingly Open Source Ecosystem
Wednesday, Sept. 12 | 11:20 a.m. – noon
Location: Room 1E 06
Paul Kent, Vice President of Global Enablement, SAS
The SAS Platform is a software foundation engineered to generate insights from data in any computing environment, supporting every phase of the analytics life cycle.
The knowledge gained from tens of thousands of time-tested customer deployments gives our platform tremendous diversity in capabilities, a remarkable ability to scale and unmatched coverage of the entire analytics process.
Wednesday, Sept. 12 | 11:20 a.m. – noon
Location: Room 1E 06
Paul Kent, Vice President of Global Enablement, SAS
Software is eating the world, and open source is eating the software. Most contemporary analytics shops use a lot of open source software in their analytics platform. So where does commercial software like SAS® fit?
This session explores how you can achieve the best of both worlds by combining your favorite open source software with the power of SAS Analytics. We discuss patterns found in a range of scenarios, from on-site to cloud deployment.
Wednesday, Sept. 12 | 4:35 – 5:15 p.m.
Location: Room 1E 12/13
Kimberly Nevala, Director of Business Strategies, SAS
Too often, the discussion of AI and ML includes an expectation – if not a requirement – for infallibility. But as we know, this expectation is not realistic. So what’s a company to do? While risk can’t be eliminated, it can be rationalized. This session will demonstrate how an unflinching risk assessment enables AI/ML adoption and deployment.