S'pore banks 5 years behind in analytics use, says SAS

Jim Goodnight, SAS CEO, said, “Data intelligence works well with patterns and breaking down customer behaviour.” He was in Singapore to help kick off a new centre of innovation for the company, which is geared up to bring training in SAS' tools to schools and businesses here, to help smoothen take-up of the company's tools by firms. Eight polytechnics in Singapore work with SAS, and SMU also maintains an analytics lab to train students. The Singapore Government has also been trumping the use of business analytics for companies here.