Oliver Schabenberger Email Address

Chief Innovation Officer

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 70,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. Specialties: SAS, BI, Data Mining, OLAP, DW, Analytics, Business Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Statistics, Customer Intelligence, Enterprise Risk Management

As Chief Technology Officer I shape the vision and direct the implementation of technology in SAS software. What we work on. How we work on it. As Executive Vice President I provide leadership for a global organization, directing more than 2,000 brilliant and dedicated R&D employees. I believe in empowering employees, combining freedom and responsibility, removing obstacles and getting out of the way. I believe in customer-driven innovation: innovation to meet the needs of the customer and enabling the customer to innovate with our products. I am a recovering academician who has found joy and fulfillment at the most remarkable company. (A full list of academic publications is available upon request)