SAS promotes chief tech officer as No. 2 to Goodnight
Oliver Schabenberger, chief technology officer at SAS, is taking on the role as chief operating officer and thus becomes the No. 2 executive at the Cary-based software firm.
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The Internet of Things opens up vast opportunities
Posted by WRAL News | Sep 29, 2015
The Internet of Things, already a $665.8 billion dollar business, is slated to hit $1.7 trillion dollars by 2020. “That’s a lot of new stuff to take advantage of,” Jim Davis of SAS told a full house at WRAL’s Internet of Things event Tuesday morning. “There really is a tremendous opportunity out there,” he added. Davis noted that while we’ve all heard of the connected home with lights, toasters and refrigerators connected to the web, the Internet of Things encompasses much more. For instance, he said, “Look at the modern oil well out there in the North Sea. If...
Read MoreTechWire: Fiber Transforms the Triangle
Posted by Laura Baverman | Aug 18, 2014
You’ve heard all the hype – we’re getting fiber. First from AT&T, and likely from Google Fiber and other players. But as much as we’re all celebrating faster and more reliable Internet at work and at home, there’s a whole lot else that one gigabit-per-second speeds allows in industries like health care, retail, banking and for next-generation startups. And that’s why ExitEvent partner WRAL TechWire is hosting the October 13 half-day event, “Fiber Transforms the Triangle” at SAS Institute in Cary. Power players in the fiberoptics and telecom space are on board to share their thoughts. There’s Steve Vanderwoude...
Read MoreAvelist’s Jody Porowski On Why She Left SAS to Build Her Business
Posted by Jake Finkelstein | Apr 1, 2013
How do you know when you’re ready to become a full-time entrepreneur? To throw caution to the wind and dedicate yourself, fully, to building a company? Is it when you have a minimum viable product? Paying customers? Investors? Or is it something more? That’s the question I posed to Jody Porowski, founder and CEO of Avelist, a company that has built a web-based service that helps users to create and share lists. I find Jody’s story fascinating. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Jody joined SAS straight out of school as a Content Manager and Social Media...
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