SAS charts its own road to AI and the cloud ZDNet

As technology is an industry that eats its young, it's rare to come across providers that have been around for more than a human generation. Among the household names today, IBM and SAS are the only ones spanning back over 40 years, with the difference that SAS has been continually growing and, after its early years, profitable. So the company, still under the leadership of founder Dr. Jim Goodnight, continues to forge its own path. Dr. Goodnight opened up last week's SAS analyst gathering with a demonstration using Alexa as the front end for SAS analytics. There's a bit of irony or coincidence here: SAS was founded just after the initial run of Star Trek, and 40 years later, the CEO gives a Star Trek-like demo of his products.