Picture with Jim Goodnight at the Qualex Booth SGF Seattle

It was great seeing Jim Goodnight and Jim Davis at SGF Seattle! Another first class event from SAS.

Teradata Qualex Luncheon at SAS Global Forum Seattle

Here are some pics from the lunch.




The lunch turnover was great; 30 people confirmed Ximena's email invitation and 26 people showed up for lunch!! =) The logistics worked perfect (food, room, signage). We discussed how to use the new Teradata SAS architecture to enhance performance, reduce data movement, and exploit parallel processing for indatabase analytics. The meeting was very interactive with many questions well handled by Bill, Frank, Rob, Yuri and me. We discussed a phased deployement strategy and we also reviewed benchmark results for performance comparisons between this new architecture versus traditional implementations.

Meeting is ending today.. time to go back to sunny Florida!

I am at the SAS Global Forum in Seattle. It feels good to catch up with all the colleagues and SAS enthusiasts. As expected the co9nference is a great success. SAS employees, SAS customers and SAS partners love SAS and it shows. Jim Goodnight and Jim Davis visited our booth at the Alliance Cafe and Ximena and I had a picture taken with them. Today we will host a luncheon for 32 organizations in partnership with Teradata. We will focus on performance optimization for analytical environments. I will keep you posted of the outcome. Have a great day!