SAS Business Analytic Software

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Using the data to make confident, fact-based decisions to increase revenue by 66%.

This is the latest mantra by SAS to the corporate world.

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services. SAS is delivering solutions with improved performance since 1976. It has operations in more than 100 countries , including bulk of the top 100 companies on the 2009 Fortune Global 500 list. It deals with the greates asset of any company: data. Transforms , cleanse and make data about customers, performance in such an easy accessible format that it becomes the most valueable information and predictive insight for quality, profitable decisions.

SAS claims to be the Business Intelligence market leader whereas it competes with giants like  Oracle, Cognos(recently acquired by IBM),  SAP but its clearly a leader in Data Mining without any doubt.

SAS has its operations in Islamabad, Pakistan too and this shows that it leaves no oppurtunity unexplored.

 

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Promising Discovery for Detection of Alzheimer

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On July 11, Dr Daniel Skovronsky is going to present his surprising discovery of finding a dye  and brain scan that can show the plague in the brains of people carrying this disease.

This has been reported on the front page of The New York Times today and if confirmed and approved by the Food and Drug Administration then this start-up company might have overcome one of the biggest obstacles in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease.

The disease is named after a German scientist Alois Alzheimer who discovered in 1906. This disease is not painful in usual manner for the affected person but actually makes the life of diseased person pure misery. It affects the brain and gradually weakens the memory of the patient whose short term memory is affected severely and the patient forgets to remember about the whereabouts, recent activities like eating, washing, sleeping even walking if taking bed rest for several days.

So far, no vaccine has been effective to cure Alzheimer’s disease and it seems a long road ahead before it could be cured through therapy and really efficient vaccine. 

Approximately, there are 26 million patients of Alzheimer’s and they are believed to reach horrifying figure of 100 million by the end of 2050.

Kindle, Nook hitting rock bottom prices

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With the arrival of iPad from Apple and book reading applications coming quickly on iPhone and Android phones, competition is getting neck-breaking among E-reader devices.

Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook have apparently seem to hit the rock bottom prices for their e-readers and margin of profit is very sleek for e-readers. Only Sony e-reader has not cut down the price among the bigger players whereas smaller companies like Kobo( Borders ereader at $149), iRex,Plastc Logic and others  have to work very hard to compete with the big guns like Amazon and B&N even with drastic cut in prices for their respective e-readers.

The price war started with Barnes & Noble’s introduction of Wifi only Nook for just $149 and Wi-Fi/3G model at $199. Amazon was quick to follow the lead by dropping 3G Kindle 2 price to $189.

Kindle and Nook both uses Vizplex E Ink for crispy paper like display which is superior at daytime compared to its counter part brighter and sharper LCD display used in iPad and smartphones.

After some search and reviews from authetic sites, i believe the main reason behind this critical price cut is due to the launch and popularity of iPad from Apple which has passed the 3 MILLLION mark. Barnes and Noble has openly admitted that they have to cut the price because an all purpose device at $500 is hard to compete with only book reader device at $249.

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