Users For Sale
Your Twitter data is being sold today.  A lead story on ReadWriteWeb today reports how a Texas company has harvested 500 million Twitter messages and 1 billion user relationships, and is now offering the data for sale.  I wrote several week

Digital Safety Radar
Dave Handelsman had a really great article on Applied Clinical Trials this month related to improving safety and longer-term healthcare through the application of advanced analytics to social media.  When many people think of using analytics on social me

If not this then what? If not now then when?
This week's guest blog post comes to use from Craig Nestel, Business Solutions Manager in the SAS Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice.  Craig discusses how competitiveness in the life sciences market now requires companies adapt from their long-standing broad-focused practices. You can read more about Craig here. Continue reading "If not this then what? If not now then when?"

Drew Foglia on Architecture
Anyone who knows me knows I am a huge advocate of intelligent software architectures.  Design and governance of good architecture serves as the foundation for powerful, extensible, and scalable software solutions.  Last week I wrote a story for Technorati about some of the problems with our current health reform approach, and I highlighted architecture as one of the missing puzzle pieces.  To that end, this week I share an interview Drew Foglia, one of the minds behind SAS' current thinking in services-oriented architecture for our health and life sciences solutions.

Becoming Agile
Does your organization use agile development?  For our health and life sciences solutions, we have historically relied on waterfall development: it is well understood, easily maps to regulatory requirements around traceability, and is conservative enough for commercial software companies to feel confiden