Fifty years later, Barry Merrill still remembers where it all started. In an interview, Merrill reflected on discovering SAS through a small notice in Datamation magazine. At the time, the software was new, largely unknown and available for $100. "North Carolina State University's statistics department announces the availability of the [...]
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Conference demos often struggle with the same challenge: showing people what technology can do without asking them to sit through another product presentation. At SAS Innovate 2026, SAS partner Notilyze took a different approach. Rather than leading with a traditional demonstration, Notilyze showcased an interactive soccer game that encouraged attendees [...]
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Explore how SAS AI-Driven Entity Resolution on SAS Viya combines no-code configuration, probabilistic matching, and industry-specific integrations to create trusted identities, improve data quality, and support critical decisions across sectors such as public services and financial crime prevention.
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A quick search through headlines reveals a range of AI-related disappointments. Consider that 95% of GenAI pilots fail, according to MIT. Amazon’s Kiro agent recently sparked a 13-hour outage by deleting a production environment. And we can’t forget that the resource and energy strain from a new wave of AI [...]
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Georgia-Pacific didn’t treat AI as a science project or a luxury add-on while researching solutions. They made it core to operations, scaling intelligent decisions across an enterprise as massive as their manufacturing footprint. Georgia-Pacific manufactures products used every day, like bath tissue, boxes and lumber, across more than 150 sites [...]
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When I joined SAS in 1997, most analytics workflows still revolved around desktops, batch processing and highly technical users. Later that same year, SAS introduced SAS/IntrNet – a technology that helped bring SAS analytics into the growing world of web applications. At the time, it felt like a major shift [...]
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Every patent starts as a problem someone couldn't ignore. In 2025, SAS and JMP inventors earned 82 of them – spanning natural language processing, AI, fraud protection, IoT and more – each one rooted in the kind of friction that real organizations actually deal with. At SAS' annual Patent Dinner, [...]
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Recausticizing is the beating heart of pulp production. Sure, it’s chemistry, too, but it’s anything but boring science. For Georgia-Pacific, mastering this heartbeat’s rhythm has meant protecting profits, safeguarding quality and rewriting what’s possible on the mill floor. Georgia-Pacific, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of tissue, pulp, packaging and [...]
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