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Mr James Foster
Head of Marketing, SAS Australia |
| Abstract | |
| As the global leader in analytics software and services, SAS transforms data into insight that gives organisations a fresh perspective on their business. In this presentation, James Foster will address how a High-Performance Analytics approach enables organisations to gain huge competitive advantage, and unprecedented business value, by providing rapid time-to-insights from big data.
The latest frontier in High Performance Analytics allows organisations to quickly test more ideas, and resolve difficult questions and scenarios in the analytical process – all with the end result of making better, faster and more accurate decisions. |
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| Bio | |
| James Foster is the Head of Marketing at SAS Australia. James is a passionate technology executive, with experience across marketing, sales & delivery roles. Technology advisory and best practices have formed key parts of James’ previous roles, including direct involvement with major organisations across many industries, especially Financial Services, Communications and the Public Sector. James has developed strong domain expertise in the area of Business Analytics and is considered a thought leader in this area, especially when engaging with IT and Architecture executives. James represents the Australian/New Zealand region as part of many global practice teams and is SAS’ regional spokesperson and evangelist around Cloud Computing, Big Data and High Performance Analytics, engaging with the media, industry analysts as well as customers and prospects. James has held a number of roles at SAS, previously focusing on areas such as Technology Strategy as well as building and leading the Architecture Practice within Australia and New Zealand. James’ knowledge not only includes SAS capabilities and technology but extends to integration with corporate systems and infrastructure. James draws upon his practical experience in designing and implementing a number of large scale enterprise solutions. |
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