Cool Curiosity at SAS Nordic Forums 2019

Thanks SAS Nordic Forums for sharing your inspiration, information, community and cool curiosity! With too many highlights to mention, you certainly fulfilled the theme of ‘Be Curious’. From the Nordic Hackathon competition in February, through to the jury and attendee voting at the forums, and the wonderful Data Science Escape Room at each event, it’s […]

Y’all ready for SASGF?

The Metacoda koalas are so excited about the upcoming SAS Global Forum 2019 in Dallas that they’ve dressed up for the occasion! To embrace ‘The Lone Star State’ – as Texas is known – the koalas are donning brown cowboy hats and a blue star on their jackets. The blue star is also well known […]

Being a curiosity FAN!

If you’re a fan of curiosity, you’re bound to be a fan of SAS FANS (Four Associations of Nordic SAS users). SAS FANS are known for hosting inspiring and educational events. Having presented at an Oslo FANS meeting a few years ago (see 12th Oktober 2015), Metacoda has experienced the high level of enthusiasm, connectedness […]

SAS users in Australia, your vote counts!

Have your say today! As Hanlie Erwee (Customer Advocacy Manager) promised at the Australian SAS user group meetings last year, the SAS user survey is now ready and waiting for your input. Please take a few minutes to contribute and vote about what you want for future SAS Australia events and learning. Personally, we’d love […]

Metacoda Koalas Gratefulness

G’day! As the year comes to an end, we wanted to say a special great big koala thanks to our less-furry friends for all your support! We also wanted to show you the following video we made about our adventures in recent years. We’re a bit unusual in our love of adventure given that our […]

Supporting the SAS community to help keep your SAS platform secure

Metacoda has been meeting the needs of SAS platform administrators and users with our customer-driven productivity tools, since 2007. It’s been an enjoyable 11 years supporting the SAS community by: sponsoring SAS events around the world helping out in the SAS Users Group for Adminstrators (SUGA) community assisting members in communities.sas.com sharing knowledge and thought […]

SAS Admin community: Have you joined your tribe?

The SAS Administrator’s role is at times cherished and other times admired, forgotten, loathed or even ignored – sometimes all in the course of a single day! However, there is one thing that remains constant: the success of SAS Analytics relies on how well the platform hums along. If there are issues with, for instance […]

Embracing the Analytics Economy in Europe

“Data is the fuel, and analytics is the engine of new economy.” These are the words of Oliver Schabenberger (SAS® CTO & COO), who at SAS Global Forum 2018 discussed with Dr Jim Goodnight (SAS CEO & President) about the evolution of analytics and its exciting future. In an interview with Karin Reed, Dr Goodnight […]

A true blue un”bear”lievable SAS Global Forum

Last month we wrote about how much we were looking forward to being a SAS Global Forum (SASGF) 2018 sponsor in April 8-11. Well, it certainly lived up to our expectations. Every moment was extraordinary; particularly the time spent connecting with customers, partners, supporters, and friends. It was such a pleasure to cross paths with […]

How Metacoda can help keep your SAS platform secure. See us at SASGF!

Metacoda is excited to once again be a SAS Global Forum (SASGF) sponsor (our seventh consecutive year!) And with a conference theme of Inspire the Extraordinary, it’s guaranteed to be an exceptional time! Last year Charyn Faenza from First National Bank, and I, presented SAS Metadata Security 301: Auditing your SAS Environment, where we described […]