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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Innovation on a budget. That extra time, along with the cost savings identified by Turney, can be used to focus on the third area: innovation.

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Big Data's Human Component

Harvard Business Review

Any fool, or mortgage banker, can use a spreadsheet and calculate a Black-Scholes equation. From the day their firm, O'Connor & Associates , opened its doors in 1977, derivatives were treated as if they were radioactive — you weren't allowed near them without a hazmat suite and at least one PhD in mathematics.