June is National Employee Wellness Month! To observe, we are sharing with our employees, tips and strategies on improving physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing all month long. Here are some practices and programs we recommend taking advantage of this June and as needed.   TakeRead more

Each year millions of Americans face living with a mental illness. Well-being is not a standard-define term, but there is general agreement that at minimum, well-being includes the presence of positive emotions and moods like contentment and happiness, the absence of negative emotions like depressionRead more

2020 might go down as the worst year ever – it is certainly a contender for that title. Still, with all the sudden disruptions, we were able to quickly reestablish priorities, move, and adapt to a new pace, new tools, and new ways to communicateRead more

US Government agencies today are awash in data – structured and unstructured data, clean and not-so-clean data – amassed over the past decade thru surveys and other data-gathering instruments. Despite this abundance of data, there is still a paucity of actionable business intelligence (BI) thatRead more

Team Synectics has been working with a federal customer to build a Cloud framework to support the migration of their Enterprise Data Warehouse to the AWS Cloud environment.  This blog outlines how Synectics has utilized the Synectics Innovation Lab (SiLab) to solve the customers’ AWSRead more

COVID-19 Data Visualization   With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting people all over the world, it is imperative to use data to help people monitor the spread of the effects of the virus.  Data has the ability to uncover many unknowns while also telling a story.  The Synectics Innovation Lab teamRead more

The Beginnings of the Pandemic During a January 2020 Quality Risk Management meeting, Synectics leadership identified a risk to operations based on a report of human-to-human transmission of a novel coronavirus in China that was spreading to other countries in the region. At the timeRead more

Now more than ever, juggling work and family can be challenging and exhausting. You work hard, not only at the office- now your living room- but also at home with your children and family. You are being pulled in a million directions, feeling like there’sRead more

SAS Data Integration Studio is a visual design tool. It has always been useful for building, implementing, and managing data integration processes, and new features in the SAS® 9.4 TS1M4 release have made it even better. This article will concentrate on the transformations that connectRead more