Rory Bathgate

1 week ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

SAS Innovate 2025 is over and with it, three days of keynotes, hands-on sessions, and roundtable discussions focused primarily on data and AI have come to an end. Mood on the ground throughout the conference was high, with customers and partners alike paying testament to the analytics veteran’s nuts-and-bolts announcements and realistic outlook on how businesses can benefit from technology such as AI.

1 week ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

What do you do when you want to get your enterprise data into a usable format? And how can you make better use of the data you already use, through the likes of analytics, AI, and even quantum computing? All these questions and more have been front and center at SAS Innovate 2025, the data and analytics veteran’s annual conference held in Orlando, Florida. As the week has pressed on, what have we learned about SAS’ view of its place in the rapidly changing world of business technology?

1 week ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

Leaders looking to implement AI should make AI governance and risk management their primary focus if they are to succeed in their adoption plans, according to a SAS executive. Reggie Townsend, VP, Data Ethics at SAS, told assembled media at SAS Innovate 2025 that tech leaders need to consider the risks AI brings now, whether they’re ready for it or not.

1 week ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

SAS has emphasized the importance of its ongoing investment in quantum AI companies as it looks to master the technology for enterprises ahead of its competitors. The analytics veteran used its annual conference SAS Innovate 2025 to push quantum AI as a major technological breakthrough in the tech sector. To date, SAS has used ‘quantum AI’ to refer primarily to the optimization method ‘quantum annealing’, used to find the most efficient solution to certain mathematical problems.

1 week ago | itpro.com | Rory Bathgate

SAS has announced new synthetic data capabilities and support for digital twins in a push to equip enterprises with concrete platforms for data-driven decision making. Synthetic data is artificial data generated to resemble real datasets in every way that’s meaningful. These datasets are typically used to train AI and machine learning models without exposing sensitive data. While generating synthetic data has benefits, obtaining it can be difficult, research shows.