SAS packaged solutions outstrips need for SAS developers?

[Ksharp]

So modest .

Xia Keshan

[jakarman]

Thanks charlotte for playing the role of a moderator, (or Project manager as you like that better.

There  Are many big ego’s in something like to be managed and  is not easy to get their  intentions  well.

I am not hapyy being set aside as just an admin, then my message is not understood.  

My message is that SAS is failing in recognizing some important business requiements as of regulations compliancy.

Chris, congratulations with your sales success, but it could be a Pyrrhus victory (winning the battle losing the war).

Well as a discjockey to place a prepackaged piece of code on hardware in a predefined way dictated by what SAS-development (people at SAS institute) has described you may feel successful, but are you?

I give the link to the role of a modern CIO (located  at the SAS customers). It is coming from the CTO Keith Collins at SAS.  Are you telling he is wrong?      

Other links:

  - http://smartdatacollective.com/tamaradull/213651/if-you-think-data-security-it-s-responsibility-thin...  You must know her as she is working for SAS. The first post of this series just was posted this week at sas.blogs.com. I expect this one coming soon there.  

  - This one is also on the CIO’s role  http://smartdatacollective.com/bigdatastartups/230666/how-big-data-will-take-role-cio-next-level  There is a nice link (SAS white paper) http://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/en_us/doc/whitepaper2/idc-cios-chance-of-lifetime-106912.pdf 

  - To think about is the maturity level of BI: http://smartdatacollective.com/ray-major/196971/your-company-ready-deploy-business-intelligence-inte...

To be more clear: SAS institute is missing some important things at the moment.  Call it “standard of good practice”, data governance, compliancy according regulators, it is missing or no complete. Sounds unbelievable as some kind of joke but with eg bcbs239 sox hipaa (privacy) and many more guidelines have been set.  Cyber security is becoming more and more a hot
topic. It does not sound very professional that a professional services is not recognizing that.

I can give a link to show the difference.

Search for iso27002 and Splunk. https://www.google.nl/#q=splunk+iso27002+   They are probably not as good as SAS with BI and Analytics.

See the number of hits coming and the sites where they are mentioned. When you do this with SAS you will get a lot of SAS 70 hits SAS-70 is not of SAS institute has been succeeded by ISAE3402 SSAE16. eliminate this or limit it to the site sas.com. (I am sorry for those few hits)   

By this difference Splunk got momentum and accepted in IT (SIEM) as by recognizing that business requirement part of “standard of good practice”.

[Astounding]

Having worked with two packages (Model Manager, and Market Optimization), my view is that there is a ton of work created by these products.  It's just different work than existed before.  You need to prepare the data in a form that the software expects, applying business rules along the way.  That in itself is a matter of person-months if not person-years.  And business rules change over that long a time period, creating the need for updates to the development work.  Then you need to properly utilize the outputs ... add months of development work.  Add to that the fact that the developer then has a niche that would be difficult to fill ... from where I sit the developers have nothing to worry about.