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What leaders learn when AI meets reality

Most leaders do not have an AI problem. They have a readiness problem. In many small and midsized businesses, pilots are underway and use cases are defined. But when leaders step back and ask the harder question, “Is AI actually paying off?”, the answer is often less clear. This gap […] The post What leaders […]

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What leaders learn when AI meets reality

The global AI market feels more Orwellian than Dickensian these days, with headlines hitting our feed like AI contributed “basically zero” growth to US GDP (2025). This latest revelation represents a series of increasingly worrisome disappointments: 95% of GenAI pilots fail (MIT), Amazon’s Kiro agent sparks 13-hour outage by deleting […] The post What leaders

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Reviving the promise of AI with RAG, data and agentic

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 […] The post Reviving the

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From SAS/IntrNet to agentic AI: Watching two technology shifts unfold

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 […] The post From SAS/IntrNet

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Even the news is bigger in Texas: Highlights from the SAS Innovate media briefing

SAS leaders tipped their hats to the latest advances in data and AI and to the road ahead, at the media briefing during SAS Innovate. Leaders shared updates across agentic AI, industry-ready models, data management, governance and emerging technology, all grounded in helping organizations put AI to work responsibly and […] The post Even the

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Dude Perfect turns SAS Innovate 2026 into a bangin’, world-record moment

Let’s be clear – recapping the Dude Perfect session at SAS Innovate 2026 is going to sound a little uncanny. Some moments simply don’t translate easily into bullet points and corporate narrative, and this was absolutely one of them. When Dude Perfect took the main stage, energy levels spiked instantly, […] The post Dude Perfect

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SAS Innovate 2026 Day 2: Where trusted AI meets real-world decisions

If Day 1 asked what organizations should scale with AI, Day 2 showed what that looks like when trusted technology, industry expertise and human judgment come together in the moments that matter. Day 2 of SAS Innovate 2026 moved quickly from vision to application. Across banking, health care and life […] The post SAS Innovate

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Human ingenuity is still the engine behind AI

There’s a question floating around in many conversations, leadership meetings, hiring decisions, at home and in the way companies are quietly restructuring. Most people aren’t saying it directly, but it’s there. SAS CTO Bryan Harris did say it directly at SAS Innovate 2026, which set the stage for this genuinely […] The post Human ingenuity

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Forecasting accuracy improves 5.9% at North Carolina Education Lottery

Every lottery ticket printed is a forecast – and when that forecast is wrong, the consequences are immediate. “If the ticket’s there, you buy it. If the display is empty, you walk away,” said Kyle Gray, Insights and Analytics Manager at the North Carolina Education Lottery. “That moment is forecasting.” […] The post Forecasting accuracy

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SAS Innovate 2026: Will people matter as AI scales?

If you scroll through job postings right now, you’ll see a pattern. Plenty of roles asking people to train models, fine-tune outputs, build agents and automate workflows. Fewer ones are asking for the kind of judgment that used to sit at the center of how decisions get made. At the […] The post SAS Innovate

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